Title: Tyre cornering stiffness finite element analysis for tyre design parameters determination

Authors: Tao Zhou; Xiaoguang Yang; Shishuang Gao; Ronglei An

Addresses: Vanlead Rubber & Tire Research Institute, Wanli Tire Corporation Limited, No. 2, Lianhe Road, Shijing Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, 510000, China ' Vanlead Rubber & Tire Research Institute, Wanli Tire Corporation Limited, No. 2, Lianhe Road, Shijing Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, 510000, China ' Vanlead Rubber & Tire Research Institute, Wanli Tire Corporation Limited, No. 2, Lianhe Road, Shijing Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, 510000, China ' Vanlead Rubber & Tire Research Institute, Wanli Tire Corporation Limited, No. 2, Lianhe Road, Shijing Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, 510000, China

Abstract: Tyre cornering stiffness is an important property for vehicle handling and stability, it is necessity for tyre designers to understand the design parameters' contribution to cornering stiffness in order to design, manufacture and supply qualified tyre product meeting original equipment manufactures' (OEM's) demand on tyre cornering stiffness. In this paper, finite element method (FEM) is adopted to investigate tyre cornering stiffness' dependence on the variation of tyre structure design, component material and working conditions. A series of dynamic simulation of tyre cornering performance are implemented based on explicit solver of ABAQUS software after validating the tyre model by experiment. The simulated tyre cornering stiffness variation due to different design parameter presents a potential reference for tyre designers to tune tyre cornering characteristics in a correct direction. Particularly, this approach could be expanded for more tyre design parameters and performance indices with the premise of model validation.

Keywords: tyre cornering stiffness; FEA; finite element analysis; vehicle handling; vehicle stability; tyre design; design parameters; tyre structure design; component materials; working conditions; dynamic modelling; simulation; tyre modelling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJVP.2017.083366

International Journal of Vehicle Performance, 2017 Vol.3 No.2, pp.167 - 179

Received: 29 Apr 2016
Accepted: 07 Sep 2016
Published online: 24 Mar 2017 *

Full-text access for editors Full-text access for subscribers Purchase this article Comment on this article