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Tyre characteristics and modelling 255<br />

Direction of sliding<br />

Tyre material<br />

Adhesive forces due to molecular bonding<br />

Fig. 5.8<br />

Road surface<br />

Frictional force component due to adhesion<br />

F<br />

F<br />

<br />

Loading<br />

Unloading<br />

δ<br />

Fig. 5.9<br />

Hysteresis in rubber<br />

conditions such as high tyre pressures. The concept of a coefficient of friction<br />

associated with static and sliding conditions will, however, prove useful<br />

for describing the tyre models used later in this chapter.<br />

For tyres the friction generated between the tread rubber and the road surface<br />

is generated through two mechanisms these being adhesion and hysteresis.<br />

The adhesive component, shown in Figure 5.8, results from molecular bonds<br />

generated between the exposed surface atoms of rubber and road material<br />

in the contact area. This is the larger component of friction on dry roads but<br />

is greatly reduced when the road surface is contaminated with water or ice.<br />

Hence the use of ‘slick’ tyres, with no tread and increased surface contact<br />

area, for racing on dry roads.<br />

In order to understand the hysteresis mechanism consider a block of rubber<br />

subjected to an increasing and then a decreasing load as shown in Figure 5.9.<br />

As the rubber is loaded and unloaded it can be seen that for a given displacement<br />

the force F is greater during the loading phase than the unloading<br />

phase.<br />

If we continue to consider the situation where a non-rotating tyre is sliding<br />

over a non-smooth surface with a coefficient of friction assumed to

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