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Due to their many economic and ecological implications the possibility to predict tyre wear is of major importance to tyre manufacturers, fleet owners and governments. Based on these observations, in 2000 a three-year project named Tyre and Road Wear and Slip assessment (TROWS) was started. One of the TROWS objectives was to provide a tool able to numerically predict tyre global wear as well as to qualitatively determine the wear distribution. The proposed methodology combines a mathematical model of the tyre with an experimentally determined local friction and wear law. Thus, tyre abrasion due to each single manoeuvre can be determined.
Full-scale experimental tests were carried out with two Peugeot 406 cars on a public road course in Italy. Each car was equipped with a different set of tyres: one car was equipped with four all-season tyres (from now on called A tyres) and the other car was equipped with four winter tyres (from now on called B tyres). Both sets of tyres had a 195/65 R15 size. The collected data was used to validate the model. The methodology proved to give qualitatively good tyre wear predictions.
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Braghin, F., Cheli, F., Melzi, S. et al. Tyre Wear Model: Validation and Sensitivity Analysis. Meccanica 41, 143–156 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-005-1058-9
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