Optimized architecture of a civil engineering tire
AssigneeCompagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
InventorsVINCENT ESTENNE, STEPHANE LAURENT
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Abstract
A radial construction plant tire comprises two working layers (51, 52) and two hooping layers (41, 42), the extensible metal reinforcing elements of which form angles with absolute values at least equal to 5° and at most equal to 16° with the circumferential direction (XX′), each metal reinforcing element of each hooping layer (41, 42) being extensible and having a structural elongation at most equal to 1% and at least equal to 0.3%, and the tangent linear densities of the reinforcing elements of each hooping layer at 1.5% strain being at least equal to 75 KN/mm and at most equal to 160 KN/mm, the axial width of the hooping layer LF also being reduced depending on the pitches and the linear stiffness of the working layers.
Claims7
-6. (canceled)
A radial tire for a heavy-duty construction plant vehicle, the tire being adapted to be mounted on a nominal rim having a radius R expressed in inches, the radial tire comprising:
- a tread;
- a carcass reinforcement;
- and
- a crown reinforcement, which is radially inside the tread and radially outside the carcass reinforcement and which comprises a working reinforcement and a hoop reinforcement,
- wherein the working reinforcement comprises at least two working layers, each comprising reinforcing elements that:
- are made of metal,
- are coated in an elastomeric material,
- are parallel to each other and form an angle at least equal to 18° and at most equal to 45° with a circumferential direction of the tire, the reinforcing elements being crossed from one working layer to another working layer, and
- each have a structural elongation, a total elongation at break, and at least one tangent tensile modulus GT, each measured in accordance with the standard ASTM D 2969-04 of 2014,
- wherein the at least two working layers include a smallest axial width working layer, which has an axial width LT in mm and the reinforcing elements of which have a linear density MT in g/m and are disposed in the smallest axial width working layer with a mean pitch PT in mm,
- wherein the hoop reinforcement comprises at least two hooping layers, each comprising reinforcing elements that:
- are made of metal,
- are coated in an elastomeric material,
- are parallel to each other and form with the circumferential direction angles having absolute values at least equal to 5° and at most equal to 16°,
- each have a structural elongation, a total elongation at break, and at least one tangent tensile modulus, each measured in accordance with the standard ASTM D 2969-04 of 2014, and
- have a metal linear density MF in g/m, a tangent modulus GF at 1.5% strain, and are disposed in the hooping layer with a mean pitch PF in mm, each hooping layer having a tangent linear stiffness RF equal to (GF*MF/7.8)/PF,
- wherein each reinforcing element of each hooping layer is extensible, the structural elongation of each reinforcing element of each hooping layer being at most equal to 1% and at least equal to 0.3%, and the tangent linear stiffness RF at 1.5% strain of each reinforcing element of each hooping layer being at least equal to 75 KN/mm and at most equal to 160 KN/mm, and
- wherein the at least two hooping layers include a radially outermost hooping layer, which has an axial width LF and the reinforcing elements of which have a structural elongation AsF, such that the axial width LF is at least equal to LT*[R/110.25+((GT/GF)*(MT/MF)/(PT/PF)+AsF*80-1)/8].
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