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Mechanism and Conditions of the Polygonal Wear of Vehicle Tire

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Polygonal wear seriously decreases the lifespan of a tire of a passenger car and adversely affects vehicle dynamic safety. The present paper builds a model that reflects the dynamic contact characteristics of the tire and reveals the mechanism and conditions of polygonal wear of a tire. The model describes the dynamic contact behavior of the tread block and considers the characteristics of dynamic friction between the road and tread of a rolling tire. Conducting numerical bifurcation analysis, the paper reveals the conditions for self-excited vibration of the tread, i.e., the improper combination of the vertical load, wheel slip angle, tire pressure and vehicle speed considerably strengthen the lateral self-excited vibration of the tread, which is the direct vibrational source of abnormal circumferential polygonal wear. The polygonal wear of a tire occurs when a vehicle travels for a certain long distance at a so-called polygonal wear speed. The polygonal wear speed should induce lateral self-excited vibration on the contact tread of the tire and the frequency of the lateral self-excited vibration should be divisible by the rolling frequency of tire that is determined by the polygonal wear speed. Visible polygonal wear requires that the vehicle travels at a certain polygonal wear speed for a minimal distance to produce a stably developing polygonal wear pattern even for subsequent driving at variable speed.

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The authors acknowledge financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Numbers 51375343, 50775162 and 51305303).

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  1. School of Automotive Studies, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China

    Shuguang Zuo, Tianxin Ni, Xudong Wu & Yong Li

  2. NVH Department, Changan Auto Global R&D Center, Chongqing, 400023, China

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Zuo, S., Ni, T., Wu, X. et al. Mechanism and Conditions of the Polygonal Wear of Vehicle Tire. Automot. Innov. 1, 167–176 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42154-018-0016-x

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