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New Tire Stud Developments
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NEW TIRE STUD DEVELOPMENTS
Although they offer snowbelt motorists substantial improvement of vehicle control on icy roads, studded tires have been attacked with increasing vigor by highway officials for their contribution to road wear. Tests of some recently developed tire stud designs show promise that the safety and convenience factors of studded tires can be retained -- but with a considerable reduction in the amount of road wear caused by their use.
In addition to a reduction in weight and minor dimensional changes, most of these new tire studs are designed in such a way that the carbide pin will move further into the stud body if, at any time, the protrusion of the stud from the tire exceeds a critical limit. (The greater the protrusion, the greater the impact force. And it is high impact force which causes the road wear.) With their built-in protrusion-adjustment capability, the new tire studs maintain nearly uniform protrusion throughout their lifetime. Their ability to do so is unaffected by differences in wear resistance of various rubber compounds, driving speeds, or road surfaces travelled.
Tires fitted with these new studs show an increase of 75% in coefficient of friction on smooth ice, as compared to identical tires without studs.
Coefficient of friction decreases only about 5% with such studded tires on bare concrete (cement) roads. And no difference at all in performance between studded and unstudded tires has been found on bare bituminous pavement, dry or wet.
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Cantz, R., "New Tire Stud Developments," SAE Technical Paper 720116, 1972, https://doi.org/10.4271/720116.Also In
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