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Tyre characteristics and modelling 271<br />

SIDE VIEW<br />

Pressure p<br />

Limit lateral stress p<br />

Slipping starts<br />

Lateral stress<br />

Front<br />

Tyre contact patch<br />

Rear<br />

TOP VIEW<br />

M z = F y x pt<br />

F y<br />

Slipping starts<br />

Lateral stress<br />

Direction of wheel<br />

heading<br />

<br />

Direction of wheel<br />

travel<br />

x pt<br />

Pneumatic trail<br />

Fig. 5.23<br />

Generation of lateral force and aligning moment due to slip angle<br />

angles, when the lateral stress shape is substantially triangular, there is a<br />

nearly linear relationship between lateral force and slip angle. In general<br />

this linearity only extends to 1 or 2 degrees of slip angle. As the slip angle<br />

increases, the amount of rubber involved in sliding gradually extends from<br />

the rear of the tyre contact patch until all the rubber is sliding and the lateral<br />

stress follows the boundary limit p distribution.<br />

Since the form of the pressure distribution is a measure of the tyre load<br />

(F z ), it follows that the maximum lateral force F y max is found from<br />

F y max F z (5.22)<br />

In practice this maximum is achieved at slip angles above 20 degrees for<br />

most tyres. Figure 5.24 shows a typical plot of lateral force F y with slip<br />

angle for increasing tyre load with the camber angle set at zero. For the<br />

convenience of plotting results in the positive quadrant negative slip angle<br />

is used in this plot. From the plot it can be seen that the cornering stiffness C <br />

is the gradient of the curve measured at zero slip angle at a given tyre load.<br />

As the tyre load increases so does the cornering stiffness although it will be<br />

seen later that at higher tyre loads the magnitude of the cornering stiffness<br />

begins to level off. In Figure 5.24 the curves are shown to pass through the

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