The effect of traffic on the quality of natural-artificial turf

Abstract

In order to further understand the characteristics of natural-artificial turf, the research is focused on the analysis of the quality indexes of natural-artificial turf after mimic traffic processing, with the control group of natural turf. The result shows that, with the increase of the traffic intensity, the turfgrass height and above-ground biomass decrease gradually. Compared with the control group, the decreasing amplitude of natural-artificial turf, A2, A4, A6 and A8, is smaller. The density, texture and color of every group are all reduced with the increase of traffic intensity, and the control group A0 is influenced most, with the highest change rate. In the natural-artificial turf, the natural turfgrass is protected by the artificial turfgrass, which makes the turf quality more stable. And according to the result, A2 shows the poorest traffic tolerance, and there is no obvious difference between A8 and A0, and the protection effect is obvious in A4 and A6, which shows a high traffic tolerance of the natural-artificial turf.