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US 7,066,018 B2Granted
Method of simulating a rolling tire
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorsKazuyoshi Miyamoto, Masaki Shiraishi
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Abstract
A method of simulating a tire rolling on a road includes modeling the tire in finite elements to make a tire model; modeling the surface of the road in finite elements to make a road model; executing a simulation in which the tire model is made to roll on the road model at a predetermined speed; and obtaining information about the tire model. The speed of the tire model is varied by repeating an increase and a decrease based on a predetermined reference speed.
Claims8
A method of simulating a tire rolling on a road comprising the steps of:
- modeling the tire in finite elements to make a tire model;
- modeling the surface of the road in finite elements to make a road model;
- executing a simulation in which the tire model is made to roll on the road model at a moving speed repeatedly increasing and decreasing with respect to a predetermined reference speed;
- and
- obtaining information about the tire model.
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