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The evolving tire-development paradigm

  • Magazine Article
  • 16AUTP10_03
Published October 01, 2016 by SAE International in United States
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Advanced tire-simulation modeling allows tire development to keep pace with accelerated vehicle-development cycles.

Engineers working in today's vehicle-development environment are faced with a unique challenge in relation to prototype vehicles: the cost of constructing prototypes and assemblies limits their accessibility-and contemporary development cycles often outpace the opportunity to build physical prototypes. And when a prototype vehicle or assembly is produced, it quickly may no longer be representative of the most current vision.

While the most-thorough method for evaluating tire suitability for a given vehicle obviously is to drive it with the specific tires installed, the increasing limitations of access to driveable prototypes can be an obstacle. But there have been significant advances in virtual tools that can assist with the process of developing an optimized tire and vehicle system.