The design of bats also continues to evolve as manufactures search for ways to magnify the trampoline effect and increase the size of the bat's "sweet spot."
Composite bats provide an advantageous swing weight, an improved trampoline effect, a lower bending stiffness, and a higher damping rate.
The trampoline effect, which is common terminology for baseball players, is the phenomenon when the baseball "jumps" off the bat at contact.
The trampoline effect has been experimentally tested, and results show that composite bats outperform all aluminum bats.
The reason why composite bats outperform other aluminum bats is that the trampoline effect can essentially be "tuned."
This causes the fibers to expand and create a trampoline effect, projecting the ball farther and faster than possible with a metal type bat.
Several years ago, metal bats were particularly juiced, taking advantage of a trampoline effect at contact.
The trampoline effect, more officially called the springlike effect, came about by accident.
We consider the so-called trampoline effect the greatest accidental discovery since Flubber.
This club (whose name comes from his initials) makes use of an illegal "trampoline effect," the U.S.G.A argued.