Tire design elements such as tread pattern design, mold cavities, compound materials, constructions, etc., affect vehicle handling performance. The study of these design elements has been a field of constant interest in the automotive industry. Howeve...
Tire design elements such as tread pattern design, mold cavities, compound materials, constructions, etc., affect vehicle handling performance. The study of these design elements has been a field of constant interest in the automotive industry. However it not only takes a lot of time and cost but also has difficulties that requires a lot of experience to ensure the reliability of the results. In this paper, the handling performance variation according to the tire design factors was experimentally investigated. First, the force and moment characteristics of the tire according to tire design element were analyzed. For this work, the test conducted with 4 different structural stiffness types of tires and measured the characteristics of force and moment using the tire test machine(Flat Trac CT Plus). Next, the characteristics of the vehicle behavior were analyzed depending on the characteristics of the force and moment. For th is wo rk, vehic le te sts su ch as On-Cen ter Handlin g, Slow ly Ram p Ste er, et c., we re perform ed usi ng t he steering robot(SR -30). Fin ally, from the test re sul ts of this pa per , the correla tion was confir med betw een the tire design elements, the characteristics of tire force and moment and characteristics of vehicle behavior.