Method of creating tire model, tire model creation device, and tire model creation program
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorHiroyuki MINAKI
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Abstract
A tire model creation device includes: a modeling unit that separately models each of a case and a pattern representing the patterned tire, using a spline function; a surface joining unit that joins a surface of a case model, which is a model of the case, and a surface of a pattern model, which is a model of the pattern; a calculation point arrangement unit that arranges, relative to a join surface between the surface of the case model and the surface of the pattern model, a calculation point for calculating a restoring force of the join surface; and a restoring force calculation unit that calculates the restoring force based on the arranged calculation point.
Claims7
A method of creating a tire model for simulating a performance of a patterned tire, the method comprising:
- separately modeling each of a case and a pattern representing the patterned tire, using a spline function;
- joining a surface of a case model, which is a model of the case, and a surface of a pattern model, which is a model of the pattern;
- arranging, relative to a join surface between the surface of the case model and the surface of the pattern model, a calculation point for calculating a restoring force of the join surface;
- and
- calculating the restoring force based on the arranged calculation point.
A tire model creation device for simulating a performance of a patterned tire, the device comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- at least one processor coupled to the memory, the at least one processor being configured to:
- separately model each of a case and a pattern representing the patterned tire, using a spline function;
- join a surface of a case model, which is a model of the case, and a surface of a pattern model, which is a model of the pattern;
- arrange, relative to a join surface between the surface of the case model and the surface of the pattern model, a calculation point for calculating a restoring force of the join surface;
- and
- calculate the restoring force based on the arranged calculation point.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a tire model creation program for simulating a performance of a patterned tire, executable by a computer to perform processing comprising:
- separately modeling each of a case and a pattern representing the patterned tire, using a spline function;
- joining a surface of a case model, which is a model of the case, and a surface of a pattern model, which is a model of the pattern;
- arranging, relative to a join surface between the surface of the case model and the surface of the pattern model, a calculation point for calculating a restoring force of the join surface;
- and
- calculating the restoring force based on the arranged calculation point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.