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adheLAB tool is an advanced tire data analysis platform, designed to analyze the acquired channels using a multi-physical approach with the aim to comprehend the dynamic characteristics of the tire and its dependencies from the effects of the compound and carcass temperatures, internal pressure, wear and degradation.
The original MF formulation was conceived by Professor H. B. Pacejka with the aim to provide tire/road interaction forces and moments as a function of vertical load, longitudinal and lateral slips, and inclination (or camber) angle; such variables result fundamental to evaluate the tangential interaction regarding the tire dynamics but they don’t take into account the complex multi-physical phenomena occurring at tire/road interface. In particular, the relationship between interaction forces and the cited input variables is highly influenced by further physical effects, linked to tire temperature, tread wear, inflation pressure, compound viscoelastic characteristics and road roughness.
thermoRIDE is a physical-analytical tire thermal model, currently employed by vehicle and tire manufacturing companies and in motorsport, developed with the aim to:
- predict local tire thermal distribution in order to analyze its effect on vehicle performance;
- simulate tire thermal behaviour in real-time environments receiving in input vehicle data;
- enhance tire thermal characteristics linked to tire thermodynamic phenomena
- understand and optimize tire behaviour with consequential setting of proper vehicle setup
It’s a three-dimensional real-time tire multicontact model, conceived with the aim to overcome the typical issues linked to single contact tire models.
TRICK (Tire/Road Interaction Characterization & Knowledge) tool is based on a physical vehicle model, running in innovative “backward” approach, which processes experimental signals acquired from a basic set of onboard sensors and a proper vehicle sideslip angle evaluation system.
The multiphysical approach proposed by MegaRide has been enriched in the recent past by a wear model, developed to consider tread wear and tire degradation phenomena involved in tire lifecycle and in races. The model takes into account several aspects which concern road and tire compound characterizations, and local thermal phenomena occurring within the contact patch.
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