Potencial de aplicação de piso sintético emborrachado para pistas de corrida em parques urbanos

Abstract

Running, despite being a sport that has several advantages for practitioners, also generates strong impacts and even injuries. By mitigating these effects against the surface, preventing future injuries, and even working as an attraction for urban parks, the rubberized synthetic track began to be applied in some parks. This work aims to carry out a study on the application of this type of coating in urban parks. For this, a bibliographical research was carried out on these lanes, in addition to a case study on three rubber lanes in the state of Paraná. In addition, a test was applied at Parque Joaquim Teodoro de Oliveira in Campo Mourão - PR to obtain information regarding the level of satisfaction of the existing track and to identify the pathologies present. It was possible to note that even with many advantages, the rubber track still needs to be better studied to be applied in urban parks, as they are areas that have trees, humidity and vegetation, aspects that can be the cause of pathologies. The pathologies found on the asphalt walking track in the Joaquim Teodoro de Oliveira Municipal Park were holes, irregularities, ripples, mud and cracks. Even so, when applying the questionnaire in the aforementioned park, it was possible to perceive the importance that it represents in it, since about 70% of the interviewees use the park for walking/running, making it necessary to take a critical look at the revitalization of the track. Regarding the rubber track, about 58% of respondents had never had contact with it, demonstrating how it is still a surface little known by the population. However, of those who claimed to have already had contact with this type of floor, about 63% chose it as their preferred surface for running, demonstrating how well it is accepted, mainly due to its impact absorption characteristic, which through the analysis of responses of the questionnaires, proved to be the characteristic that stands out the most.