Abstract Simplicity and high efficiency of a wheeled mover as a mechanism for converting rotational motion into a translatory one have conditioned its wide application in overland machines including motor vehicles. However, a wheel with a non-pneumatic tire has a sufficient drawback lying in termination of a wheeled machine movement at the excess air pressure loss. Moreover, the loss of excess air pressure in a pneumatic tire of traditional design at high speed of movement of a motor vehicle can lead to a traffic accident with heavy consequences. This problem is particularly acute for military purpose motor vehicles as under conditions of combat actions a motionless vehicle becomes a convenient target for grenade launchers and aimed fire of small arms which to a considerable degree influences the chances of military servicemen to stay alive and fulfill the operational mission. The stop of a motor vehicle to change a wheel on a heavy traffic roadway or roadside also poses a threat. These reasons determine the necessity of both well-known design improvements and search for the new wheeled mover design solutions to enhance a motor vehicle safety, the use of wheels with non-pneumatic tires of elastic polymeric materials being one of them. Safety enhancement by means of non-pneumatic tire use along with keeping the high performance of wheeled machine operational properties is an important scientific and technical task that determines the research urgency.
Experiments to Find the Rolling Resistance of Non-pneumatic Tires Car Wheels
2019-12-01
8 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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