Direct Division Catalog 2025 - Sportsfield Specialties

Ultra Cross® Tensile Load vs. Displacement Comparison

The Ultra Cross® Difference

Ultra Cross® Baseball Impact Test In March of 2021, Sportsfield Specialties contracted Innovative Test Solutions (ITS) of Schenectady, NY to conduct impact testing on our Ultra Cross® Knotless Netting. Our goal was to see just how many powerful hits our industry-leading product could handle! To simulate a field installation, a scaled down netting system model was constructed to replicate a full-scale system. This cable suspended system consisted of four constraint cables, located at each edge of a 10’x10’ 1.2 mm knotless Ultra Cross® Dyneema® netting panel. The net was then lashed to the cables with a combination of zip ties and braided rope. Once the system was in place, a series of standard baseballs was fired at the net from a dramatic 10’ distance using a high-powered pitching machine with ball speeds averaging at 100mph. Here are the results:

STRETCH More stretch means increased “danger zone,” more sag, and more maintenance

TEST DATE DISTANCE FT BALL IMPACTS AVG SPEED MPH

COMMENTS

Effective Break Strength (PSI)

Net Failed after 4795 ball impacts. Ball passed through main target point break- ing two netting strands. The cable were re-tightened, as needed, during testing.

3/15/2021

4795

100MPH

60K

Eng/Tech:

Data Check:

Quality Manager:

50K

40K

ULTRA CROSS ® NETTING TOOK NEARLY 5000 HITS!

30K

20K

10K

#18 knotted Spectra A

#18 knotted Spectra B

Pro-9 knotted Dyneema

#12 knotted Dyneema

UDR2 knotted Dyneema

Ultra Cross ® braided / knotless