Tyres and Tyre Technology

Tyre technology related services include:

• Rubber compound development for cost/performance benefits
• Air permeation rate through inner liner
• Mechanical characterisation of materials under sinusoidal and pulse loading
  - elastic/viscoelastic
  - fatigue crack growth
• Test equipment for fatigue characterisation with impulse loading
• Finite element modelling and prediction of fatigue crack growth using fracture mechanics based methods
• Assessment of rubber to reinforcement bond strength and performance
  - e.g. rubber to brass plated steel chord
• Investigation of deterioration, ageing and failures
• Characterisation of friction coefficient - static and dynamic