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Tyre characteristics and modelling 311<br />

Actual tyre profile<br />

Tyre centre line<br />

Tyre model discretization<br />

Tyre centre line<br />

Tyre cross-sectional elements<br />

Input points to define shape<br />

Computed points<br />

Fig. 5.64<br />

Discretization of tyre profile for durability analysis<br />

Fig. 5.65<br />

Intersection of durability tyre model element with road surface element<br />

For each of the discrete elements used to model the tyre cross-section the<br />

interaction with the road surface elements produces a line projection of the<br />

intersection on the tyre element.<br />

From this it is possible to compute the area and hence volume related to the<br />

penetration of tyre cross-sectional element by the road, for example by<br />

summing the three components shown in Figure 5.66. For a tyre with n<br />

cross-sectional elements, where each element has m components of penetrated<br />

area, the effective penetrated volume, V eff , for the complete tyre is<br />

given by<br />

V<br />

eff<br />

<br />

n<br />

m<br />

∑ ∑<br />

i1<br />

j1<br />

A m w n<br />

(5.69)<br />

where<br />

A m is the penetrated area of the mth component of area within the crosssectional<br />

tyre element<br />

w n is the width of the nth cross-sectional element of the tyre

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