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30th Annual Meeting & Conference on Tire Science & Technology

Akron/Fairlawn Hilton Hotel: Akron, OH, USA

This session includes papers related to tire-road contact mechanics and constitutive modeling.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011: 4:05 PM-5:20 PM
Akron/Summit Ballroom (Akron/Fairlawn Hilton Hotel)
Chair:
Xianwei Meng, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
4:05 PM
Experimental and Computational Studies of Contact Mechanics for Tire Longitudinal Response
Jacob Kidney1, Neel Mani1, Vladimir Roth1, John Turner1 and Tom Branca2, (1)Tire Operations, Bridgestone Americas, Akron, OH, (2)Daedalus Associates, Bradford, MA
4:30 PM
Towards Tire-Road Contact Stresses and Pavement Design
Morris De Beer, Built Environment, Council for Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa

Contact Information

Rubber Division, ACS
rubber@confex.com