Abstract
A tire is an extremely integrated and multi-physical system. From only a mechanical point of view, tires are represented by highly composite multi-layered structures, consisting of a multitude of different materials, synthesized in peculiar rubber matrices, to optimize both the performance and the life cycle. During the tire motion, due to the multi-material thermodynamic interaction within the viscoelastic tire rubber matrix, the dynamic characteristics of a tire may alter considerably. In the following paper, the multibody research comfort and handling tire model is presented. The main purpose of the research comfort and handling tire is to constitute a completely physical carcass infrastructure to correctly transmit the generalized forces and torques from the wheel spindle to the contact patch. The physical model structure is represented by a three-dimensional array of interconnected nodes by means of tension and rotational stiffness and damper elements, attached to the rim modeled as a rigid body. Research comfort and handling tire model purpose is to constitute a structural physical infrastructure for the co-implementation of additional physical modules taking into account the modification of the tire structural properties with temperature, tread viscoelastic compound characteristics, and wear degradation. At the stage, the research comfort and handling tire discrete model has been validated through both static and dynamic shaker test procedures. Static test procedure adopts contact sensitive films for the contact patch estimation at different load and internal pressure conditions, meanwhile the specifically developed sel test regards the tire dynamic characterization purpose at the current stage. The validation of the tire normal interaction in both static and dynamic conditions provided constitutes a necessary development step to the integration of the tangential brush interaction model for studying the handling dynamics and to the analysis of the model response on the uneven surfaces.
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