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Mechanics of Pneumatic Tires Analysis

This document provides a tutorial on the mechanics of pneumatic tires. It discusses tire construction and designations, factors that affect rolling resistance like construction, road surface, inflation pressure and temperature. It also covers standing waves in tires, methods of measuring rolling resistance, theories for generating cornering forces and tractive effort. Additional topics include tire performance in wet conditions, comparing rolling resistance of different tire types, and using empirical formulas to analyze braking and cornering forces of trucks and the risk of hydroplaning for a car.

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Mechanics of Pneumatic Tires Analysis

This document provides a tutorial on the mechanics of pneumatic tires. It discusses tire construction and designations, factors that affect rolling resistance like construction, road surface, inflation pressure and temperature. It also covers standing waves in tires, methods of measuring rolling resistance, theories for generating cornering forces and tractive effort. Additional topics include tire performance in wet conditions, comparing rolling resistance of different tire types, and using empirical formulas to analyze braking and cornering forces of trucks and the risk of hydroplaning for a car.

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MIN-412 VEHICLE DYNAMICS

Tutorial No. 1 Mechanics of Pneumatic Tyres

1. (a) Describe the construction of pneumatic tyres. (b) How are the tyres designated?

2. (a) Discuss the mechanics of rolling resistance of tyres.


(b) Discuss the effect of following factors on the rolling resistance of tyres:
(i) Tyre construction (ii) type of road surface (iii) inflation pressure (iv) driving speed
(v) internal temperature (vi) shoulder temperature (vii) tyre diameter.

3. What are standing waves? Why are they formed in tyres?

4. Discuss the methods of measuring the rolling resistance of tyres (a) on the road (b) in the laboratory.

5. Describe the Julien’s theory regarding tractive effort developed by a pneumatic tyre under different
longitudinal slip conditions.

6. (a) Discuss the stretched string model proposed by Temple and von Schilppe for generation of cornering
forces and pneumatic trail in a pneumatic tyre.
(b) What is the effect of normal load and inflation pressure on cornering coefficient of a tyre?

7. Discuss the performance of a tyre on wet surfaces.

8. Compare the power required to overcome the rolling resistance of a passenger car weighing 15.57 kN
and having radial-ply tires with that of the same vehicle, but having bias-ply tires in the speed range
40-100 km/h. The variations of the coefficient of rolling resistance of the radial-ply and bias-ply
passenger car tire with speed are described by Eqs. 1.1 and 1.2., respectively.

9. A truck tire with vertical load of 24.78 kN travels on a dry concrete pavement with a peak value of
coefficient of road adhesion μp = 0.80. The longitudinal stiffness of the tire during braking Cs is 224.64
kN/unit skid. Using the empirical formulae described in Section 1.3 plot the relationship between the
braking force and the skid of the tire up to skid is = 20%.

10. Using the simplified theory described in Section 1.4, determine the relation-ship between the
cornering force and the slip angle in the range 0-160 of the truck tire described in Problem 9. The
cornering stiffness of the tire Cα is 132.53 kN/rad. Assume that there is no braking torque applied to
the tire.

11. Evaluate the effect of longitudinal skid on cornering force of the truck tyre described in problems 9
and 10 at a slip angle of 40, using the empirical method described in section 1.4. Plot the cornering
force of the tire at a slip angle of 40 versus skid in the range 0-40 %. The coefficient of road adhesion
is 0.8.

12. A passenger car travels over a flooded pavement. The inflation pressure of the tires is 179.27 kPa. If
the initial speed of the car is 100 km/h and brakes are then applied, determine whether or not the
vehicle will be hydroplaning.

13. An all-terrain vehicle weighs 3.56 kN and has four terra tires, each of which has a vertical stiffness of
52.54 kN/m at an inflation pressure of 27.6 kPa and a stiffness of 96.32 kN/m at a pressure of 68.9
kPa. Estimate the fundamental natural frequencies of the vehicle in the vertical direction at the two
inflation pressures. The vehicle has no spring suspension.

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