The combination of increasingly sophisticated laboratory test equipment and advanced modeling software is enabling design and development engineers to be more accurate in the prediction of tread wear based on indoor laboratory testing. Indoor tread wear testing eliminates the need for closed track or on-vehicle routes with a human driver, data can be collected more quickly and your product can get to market faster.
Indoor tread wear testing offers a number of additional benefits, including:
At each tread wear level of interest, the global wear rate of the tire is evaluated by measuring the tire tread profile and the weight loss. Smithers uses a Bytewise CTWIST laser profilometer for mapping the tire tread profile at different wear levels of interest. Smithers can perform advanced data analysis and develop customized special reports on your request.
Indoor tread wear testing offers a number of additional benefits, including:
- Customized drive profiles for specific tire types, conditions, or applications
- Excellent tool for benchmarking studies against defined samples
- Reproduceable, high quality data sets to make tread compound and design decisions
- Maximum load 1588 kg (3,500 lbs)
- Maximum lateral force 800 kg (1,800 lbs)
- Slip angle ±4.5°
- Camber angle ±3°
- Speed 120 km/h (75 mph)
- The HIGHWAY cycle follows constant radial load, lateral force, inflation pressure, and speed conditions.
- The CITY cycle normally includes constant frequency sinusoidal variation of radial force and steering angle at constant inflation, inclination, and speed.
At each tread wear level of interest, the global wear rate of the tire is evaluated by measuring the tire tread profile and the weight loss. Smithers uses a Bytewise CTWIST laser profilometer for mapping the tire tread profile at different wear levels of interest. Smithers can perform advanced data analysis and develop customized special reports on your request.
- 6PPD Alternative Development
- Accelerated Tire Aging
- Custom Product Displays
- Durability and Endurance Testing
- Electric Vehicle (EV) Tires
- Fleet Fuel Efficiency Analysis
- Force and Moment Testing
- Government Regulatory Tire Testing
- High-Speed Uniformity Testing
- Indoor Tread Wear
- Inflation Pressure Loss Rate (IPLR)
- Laboratory Tire Analysis
- Laser Tread Profilometry (CTWIST)
- OEM Design Validation
- OTR Tire Testing
- PRAT and RCF
- Rolling Resistance Testing
- Snow and Ice Traction
- Stiffness/Spring Rate Measurement
- Subjective Ride and Handling
- Tire Benchmarking
- Tire Footprint Testing
- Tire Impact Testing
- Tire Labeling Testing
- Tire Modeling and Characterization
- Tire Proving Grounds
- Tire Quality Control Program
- Tire Shearography
- Vertical Load Testing