Levels Of Inflation Pressure Research Articles

Ballast and Inflation Effects on Tire Efficiency

ABSTRACT THIS report deals with the interactive effects of ballast and inflation pressure on tractive efficiency of selected bias- and radial-ply tractor tires operated under field conditions. Results indicated that if control systems were available to select ballast and inflation pressure levels for maximum tractive efficiency, the gains in tractive efficiency would be up to 0.21.

Load and Inflation Pressure Effects on Tires

ABSTRACT TRACTIVE efficiency was experimentally optimized for a radial-ply tractor tire. Results show that tractive efficiency can be significantly improved by selecting ap-propriate levels of inflation pressure and dynamic load for a particular soil condition. The potential gains in tractive efficiency which could result from the applica-tion of automatic controls to field traction situations are explored.