轮胎胎面橡胶-冰面摩擦试验方法研究

基于一种新开发的轮胎胎面橡胶摩擦试验机,建立了轮胎和整车与冰面间的模拟摩擦试验手段,提出了在高滑移速度段的瞬时试验法和低滑移速度段的连续采样试验法;分别在不同滑移速度、压力、温度下针对轮胎胎面胶块与冰面进行了摩擦试验,并对试验结果进行了模型拟合和分析.结果表明:作为轮胎主要组成部分的橡胶表现出很特殊的摩擦特性,其并不符合库仑摩擦定律;橡胶轮胎的机械特性在很大程度上取决于橡胶的摩擦特性,在一些极限工况下尤其如此;相关的橡胶摩擦实验研究对轮胎力学特性的研究具有重要的参考价值.     

较大变形范围内炭黑填充胶料超弹性力学性能温度相关性的实验研究

基于含温度箱的自动网格法试验系统,本文对不同温度下炭黑颗粒填充胶料的超弹性力学行为进行了实验研究.研究表明,填充胶料在较大范围内的超弹性力学行为存在着温度相关性,其特点是:胶料随着温度的升高而"先变软后变硬".在温度升至临界温度以前,胶料中分子热运动增强所导致的软化趋势占主导作用,所以胶料随温度升高而变软;当温度超过临界温度后,胶料的熵弹性效应占据主导作用,即胶料将随温度升高而变硬.研究结果还表明,修正八链模型可以较准确表征不同温度下轮胎胶料的超弹性力学行为.     

扁平化对子午线轮胎力学性能影响的有限元分析

以185/60R14半钢子午线轮胎为参考轮胎,通过改变断面高和改变断面宽两种方式构建了不同扁平率的一系列轮胎模型,采用ABAQUS/Standard软件对不同高宽比的轮胎进行了系统的研究.结果表明,通过减小断面高和增大断面宽两种方式实现轮胎的扁平化,将会产生不同的效果:前者会导致轮胎胎圈部三角胶内的应变能密度明显增大:后者则会使带束层帘线拉力的最大值明显降低,带束层帘线中部的应力状态由受压变为受拉,轮胎胎冠部橡胶结构危险区域的Mises应力和应变能密度均明显减小,对胎侧部和胎圈部的力学行为影响则很小.由此,可以利用增大胎冠部宽度而保持轮胎其他部位结构不变的简单方法实现子午线轮胎的扁平化.     

轮胎与地面接触问题的非线性有限元分析

考虑轮胎的材料非线性、几何非线性、橡胶帘线复合材料各向异性、以及橡胶材料本身的不可压缩特性等,分析了9．00R20子午线轮胎静态下与地面的接触问题,考察了不同下沉量、不同内压及静摩擦系数与因素对轮胎静态接地面内应力应变场的影响,得出了对工程设计有指导意义的结论。     

Damage diagnosis in intelligent tires using time-domain and frequency-domain analysis

Tire durability plays an important role in road transportation safety and is taken very seriously by all tire manufacturers. Defects in tires can cause vehicle instability and create catastrophic accidents. In this article, a finite element model of the intelligent tire is developed using implicit dynamic analysis and is used for defect detection. Processing and analyzing the acceleration signals, measured at the center of the tire inner-liner, for the undamaged and damaged tires, can result in detecting the crack locations around the tire circumference. Additionally, prediction models used for damage diagnosis based on optimized number and location of sensors, was developed. Several sensors located at different locations around the circumference of the damaged tire and away from the crack surface, are used in order to assess sensor location sensitivity from the crack surface. It is observed that the radial component of the acceleration signal has the highest potential to be used as the signal of choice in defect detection as compared to circumferential acceleration signals.     

Tire inflation and its influence on drawbar characteristics and performance – Energetic indicators of a tractor set

This work deals with the influence of tire inflation on tractive characteristics and performance-energetic parameters of a ploughing set. The test was conducted using two tire sets with different tire pressures under field conditions. Measurements of tractive properties were performed by setting travel speeds to 5, 8, and 10 kph, respectively. The ploughing set was operated at 8 kph, according to the manufacturer’s recommendation. The measurement results were processed graphically and mathematically into the Vehicle Traction Ratio, drawbar power, and slip characteristics. The tire inflation, reduced from 180 to 65 kPa and/or 75 kPa, of tires with wide treads (low-profile) resulted in increase of the front tire footprint by 24.7% and rear tire footprint by 31.1%. This change had a positive impact on the specific tractive fuel consumption that decreased in the range from 3.4% to 16.0%, depending on the travel speed. The results of performed measurements revealed that reducing the tire inflation of appropriate tires can improve the drawbar characteristics and consequently the fuel consumption.     

Thrust and slip of a low-pressure tire on compressible ground by the compression-sliding approach

Driving wheels with low-pressure lugged tires are standard propulsion components of wheeled off-road vehicles. Such wheels have been mostly treated in theory as shorter tracks or even as “black boxes”. These procedures, however, appear not to be necessary since an updated theory of thrust generation, based on experiments with double-plate meter, was presented at the 2008 ISTVS Turin conference. This theory is based on the compaction-sliding (CS) concept, which claims that the rearward displacement of soil, a reason for slip, starts as horizontal soil compression by lugs (C-stage at lower thrust), followed by the slide of sheared off soil blocks (S-stage at higher thrust). The thrust in terms of ISTVS Standards equals gross tractive effort minus internal rolling resistance of a tire. The resultant thrust of a tire equals the sum of component thrusts of individual soil segments. The respective technique provides thrust-slip curves, which reflect tire size, loading, inflation pressure and tread pattern design, e.g. tread density, lug angle, pitch, height and tire casing lay-out and thus can be useful notably in assessing the traction properties of new tire designs. Concerning the evaluation of tire traction tests or similar applications, the CS approach offers a simplified version of thrust-slip formula (G-function), which complies with the CS concept and is easy to use.     

冰面上轮胎摩擦牵引力的实验研究

研制开发了测试冰雪面轮胎力学特性的试验装置,该装置具有可作往复运动的平台冰槽。在不同冰基体温度下,分析了轮胎摩擦引力受侧偏角,载荷和轮胎充气压力的影响,从试验角度论证了轮胎中央充放气系统对改善冬季轮胎牵引性能的作用,该装置的建立将有利于轮胎新结构和新材料的开发,并起到完善现有轮胎力学模型的作用。     

子午线轮胎驻波现象和临界速度的有限元分析

利用ABAQUS软件建立了较完整系统的轮胎驻波现象的有限元模型和分析方法,包括充气、加载、匀速滚动和加速滚动过程的有限元分析以及确定轮胎驻波临界速度的Euler描述和表征的方法.由此得到的轮胎驻波临界速度与试验值吻合较好.着重分析了载荷、充气压力对临界速度的影响,结果表明,增大充气压力会显著提高临界速度,而载荷的影响则可以忽略不计.     

射频等离子体热解废轮胎的研究

Disposal of the huge piles of used tires is increasingly becoming a problem all over the world. Incineration may utilize the energy content of waste tires, but it is associated with the generation of SO2, NOx and other hazardous emissions. Pyrolysis is an alternative disposal method with the possibility for recovery of valuable products from used tires. Recently, waste processing technology based on plasma processes has received much attention due to a number of advantages such as high treatment rate, small space volume, etc. In this paper, the pyrolysis of waste tire using a capacitively coupled radio-frequency （RF） plasma reactor was investigated. The lab-scale RF plasma reactor was operated with RF powers between 1 600 W and 2 000 W, pressures between 3 000 Pa and 8 000 Pa （ absolute pressure） and temperatures between 1 200 K and 1 800 K. In the tire powder pyrolysis experiments, two product streams are obtained： combustible gas and char. The physical properties （surface area, porosity, particle morphology） as well as chemical properties （elemental composition, heating value and surface functional groups） of char were examined to exploit the potential applications of the char. The results indicate that the RF plasma pyrolysis would be a useful technology for waste disposal.