Off-road tires are able to carry a vehicle, driver, passengers, and load, on bumpy rocks, sand, mud, and other off-road surfaces, thanks to their special tread patterns. The grooves between the tread blocks are wider and the lugs are larger. Off-road tires also have reinforced sidewalls and are puncture resistant, which helps avoid damage and […]
Category: Tire Technology
Tire Engineering
Everyone is familiar with the population mobility and the increasing severity of driving conditions: freeways turnpikes tremendous horsepower power steering power brakes revised driving habits faster breaking and cornering greater accelerations high-speed car-to-car proximity. All this automobile torque is transmitted through the tires. In addition to providing propulsion and directional forces tires must insulate against […]
Tire Life Cycle and Tire Reinforcing Systems
TIRE LIFE CYCLE An understanding to the role of tires involves an analysis of product life cycles and specifically the tire life cycles. A product life cycle is a forecast of product growth and length of Life based on an S-curve analysis. It depicts in effect the life of a product in a time frame. […]
New Tire Development and Technological Forecasting
NEW TIRE DEVELOPMENT How is a new tire developed? A brief description is given in this article about how new fabric polyester was commercialized in tires. The introduction to a new fabric into tires is a venture of major proportion. The origin of this venture began with an analysis that led to a selection sequence. […]
Tire Testing Systems and Tire Manufacture
TIRE TESTING SYSTEMS As in all fields of technology a method of measuring performance is essential to progress. The major areas of a tire testing system are: (a) Laboratory testing of cords compounds and composites (b) Laboratory testing of tires (c) Proving grounds testing of tires (d) Commercial evaluation (taxi fleets truck fleets (e) Quality […]
Tires in Different Shapes
The VAST ARRAY OF TIRES available is really fantastic. They range from the tiny doughnuts for lawn mowers to tires for heavy equipment standing twice as tall as a man and costing what the average man earns in three years. And for those few people who have been able to resist the blandishments of Detroit […]
The Next Generation of Rubber Buggy Tires
RUBBER BUGGY TIRES were still thought of as a luxury rather than a necessity and Firestone almost immediately started out to change this image. It wasn’t that he objected to the luxury notion (he devoted in fact his earliest promotion efforts for the Firestone Perfect Side Wire Tire to the medical profession; then as now […]
Challenges in Manufacturing Rubber Tires
THE RUBBER TIRE was obviously what the automobile was going to require and just about as soon as men began to believe the automobile was the coming thing men began to manufacture tires for it. For some people Dunlop for example who was already making bicycle tire sit looked to be a new if small […]
Source of Rubber for Automobile Tires
THE AMOUNT OF RUBBER required for automotive use is fantastic. For every two people on the face of the earth there is one rubber tree under cultivation and the vast bulk of all rubber produced is used in an automotive connection. In the United States we import half the world’s supply and in addition make […]
Introduction to Tire Technology
More than 5000 years ago the Sumerians invented the wheel. As the centuries passed the wheel was continually refined. Then in 1845 Robert William Thomson was granted a patent in England on an “air tube device” the forerunner of the modern pneumatic tire. This invention lay unused until the end of the 19th century. The […]