The road transportation sector places a severe burden on large parts of the population in the form of road traffic noise. A main contributor to this is the rolling noise generated by the tires of trucks and other heavy vehicles. Advanced simulation tools are not only needed for a better physical understanding of rolling noise generation, but also for the design of quieter tires and road surface...

An artificial neural network (ANN) model for predicting the failure rate of De Havilland Dash-8 airplane tires utilizing the twolayered feed-forward back-propagation algorithm as a learning rule is developed. The inputs to the neural network are independent variables and the output is the failure rate of the tires. Six years of data are used for model building and validation. Model validation, ...

Discarded vehicle tires are a common habitat for container mosquito larvae, although the environmental factors that may control their presence or abundance within a tire are largely unknown. We sampled discarded vehicle tires in six sites located within four counties of central Illinois during the spring and summer of 2006 to determine associations between a suite of environmental factors and c...

.................................................................................................... 9 Chapter 1: Introduction ........................................................................ 10 1.1 The waste tire ............................................................................. 10 1.2 Methods for recycling waste tires ............................................. 13 1.2.1 L...

This research presents the results of tests conducted under field conditions and included measuring footprint tires on soil. Two agricultural same size but different internal structures were tested, 500/50R17 (radial) 500/50-17 (bias-ply). The factors tire inflation pressure (0.8 bar, 1.6 2.4 bar) vertical load (7.8 kN, 11.8 15.7 kN). made soil was scanned with a 3D scanner, resulting in digita...

The tire bead, as the most important load-bearing component at bead area, is closely related to durability of tire, but its structure developing slowly. For this reason, topological whole design was proposed, although it performs well, many defects existed due based on traditional experience. Therefore, paper studies topology shape optimization algorithm, delves into main criterion von Mises an...

In the past, Aedes atropalpus was limited to those areas of the eastern U.S. and Canada that had rivers or shorelines with large rocks containing rock pools. In the last 10 years, many new records of larval breeding in scrap tires have accumulated. We present records of larval breeding in non-rock pool containers for 54 counties; most are far from the original range. The species has not only fo...

The spatial distribution of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in environmental and geographical zones, e.g., urban-rural, coastal-mountainous, and north-south, was investigated throughout Vietnam. Immature stages were collected from used tires along roads. The effects of regions, seasons, and the degree of urbanization on the density and the frequency were statistically analyzed. Aedes aegypti...