An analysis of the water flow generated by a tire rolling over film has been carried out on an experimental level. The present investigation is focused commercial with winter V-shaped complex sculpture. Flow measurements were performed using optical technique derived from standard 2D-PIV, so-called r(refracted)-PIV. Some specific image processing tools have developed in order to take into accou...

This paper introduces a technique that relates the coefficients of the Magic Formula tire model to the physical properties of the tire. For this purpose, the tire model is developed by ABAQUS commercial software. The output of this model for the lateral tire force is validated by available tire information and then used to identify the tire force properties. The Magic Formula coefficients are o...

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While a new tire may have excellent resistance to crack initiation and propagation between the steel belts, an aged tire of the exact same construction can exhibit dramatically reduced crack growth resistance, which in some cases may contribute to tire failure. This article will review the research that has gone into quantifying the rate of oxidation the steel belt rubber oxidizes in different ...

Often when vehicles interact with roadside hardware like guardrails, bridge rails and curbs, the interaction between the roadside hardware and the tire causes the tire to lose its air seal and "blow-out". Once the seal between the rim and rubber tire is lost, the tire deflates. The behavior of the deflated tire is much different than the behavior of an inflated tire such that when this behavior...

The paper deals with the determination of geometric parameters in order to study the relationship between the tire/road noise and the texture of road surfaces. The approach was found to be an alternative to the classical spectral analyses and the numerical simulations of the tire/road contact. Texture parameters were derived from previous works in LCPC related to the influence of the microtextu...

Obtaining the modal parameters of a tire with ground contact and rolling conditions represents challenge due to complex vibration characteristic behaviors that cause distortion tire’s symmetry bifurcation phenomena natural frequencies. An in-plane rigid–elastic-coupled model was used examine 200 DOF finite difference method (FDM) analysis accuracy under non-ground non-rotating conditions. The d...