INTROs

REPORT

ON

Airless tire

SUBMITTED BY

MR. DATTA RAOSAHEB DESHMUKH

ROLL NO:27 (A)

T.E. (Mechanical Engineering)

Under the guidance of

Prof. S.S. MATHAPATI

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

G.H. RAISONI

INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY WAGHOLI, PUNE 2018-19

G. H. RAISONI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING &

TECHNOLOGY,

WAGHOLI, PUNE
 G.H. RAISONI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING &
TECHNOLOGY,
WAGHOLI, PUNE-412207

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that Mr. DATTA RAOSAHEB DESHMUKH has
successfully completed his seminar work titled “AIRLESS TIRE” in
academic year 2018-2019 in partial fulfilment of the under graduate degree
course in T.E. MECHANICAL as prescribed by the SAVITRIBAI PHULE
PUNE UNIVERSITY.

DATE: / / 2019

PLACE: PUNE

Guide: Head of Department:

Name: S.S. Mathapati Name: Prof. A.M. Thakare

Seal: Principle:
Name: Dr. R.D. Kharadkar
ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This seminar would not have been possible without the support by many people first
and foremost. I would like to thank my seminar Guide Prof. S.S. Mathapati each for
guiding me through my report and providing support throughout the process. He
provided me the insight to tackle different problems, gone through my work and made
invaluable comments. He has been wonderful advisor and every graduate student should
with for an advisor like him

I would also like to thank my friends for their feedbacks and advice for my work.
Valuable suggestion provided by my friends. Once again I am grateful to all of them or
providing me their support during my work.

I give my special thanks to my respected H.O.D. Prof. A.M. Thakare. He helped to me

in getting acquainted with the port in addition to providing in valuable support during
the development of the report. I am also equally indebted to our principal Dr. R.D.
Kharadkar For his valuable help whenever needed.

Mr. D.R. DESHMUKH

T.E. (Mechanical)
 ABSTRACT

Anyone who has ever driven a car run on a flat tire, but what if your tires could never
go flat? In recent years a number of companies and inventors have been working on creating
airless tires that would be impossible to puncture. Non-pneumatic tires (NPT), or Airless tires,
are tires that are not supported by air pressure. They are used on some small vehicles such as
riding lawn mowers and motorized golf carts. They are also used on heavy equipment such as
backhoes, which are required to operate on sites such as building demolition, where tire
puncture is likely. Tires composed of closed-cell polyurethane foam are also made for bicycles
and wheelchairs. The main advantage of airless tires is that they cannot go flat, but they are far
less common than air-filled tires.

The most well known design in this field is the Michelin Tweel, a combination wheel
and tire. The design was one of the first to emerge, bringing the idea of non-pneumatic tires to
the public's attention. But Michelin has been slow to roll out the technology beyond the test
phase.in light of this; a company called resilient technologies has also been working on an
airless tire. The company recently announced that prototypes of their honeycomb-like tires will
ship in 2011 for use in the US military. This will no doubt help the airless tire field, as will
other startup companies working on the task like Britek.

(keyword: Non-pneumatic tires, airless tire, tweel, honeycomb structure, tire,)

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Sr. No. CONTENTS Page no.

1. INTRODUCTION 2
2. PNEUMATIC TIRE 3
3. AIRLESS TIRES 4
4. WHAT IS AIRLESS TYRE (TWEEL)? 6
CONSTRUCTION 7

6. HOW IT WORKS 8

7. DIFFERENT DESIGN APPROACHES 10

8. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF AIRLESS

TYRES 16

9. APPLICATIONS OF AIRLESS TYRES 18

10. THE FUTURE OF AIRLESS TIRES 20

11. CONCLUSION 21

12. REFERENCES 22
 INTRODUCTION

For more than 100 years, vehicles have been rolling along on cushions of air encased
in rubber. Sometimes, we get so used to a certain product that no true changes are ever really
made for years, decades even. So begins an article discussing the development of airless tyres,
something that has become more prevalent in the past few years. A few tyre companies have
started experimenting with designs for non-pneumatic tyres including Michelin and
Bridgestone, but neither design has made it to mass production.

Creating a new non-pneumatic design for tyres has more positive implications than one
might think. For one thing, there are huge safety benefits. Having an airless tyre means there
is no possibility of a blowout, which, in turn, means the number of highway accidents will but
cut significantly. Even for situations such as Humvees in the military, utilizing non-pneumatic
tyres has a great positive impact on safety. Tyres are the weak point in military vehicles and
are often targeted with explosives. If these vehicles used airless tyres, this would no longer be
a concern.

There is also an environmental benefit to using this type of tyre. Since they never go
flat and can be retreaded, airless tyres will not have to be thrown away and replaced nearly as
often as pneumatic tyres. This will cut down landfill mass significantly.

Because of the benefits, I believe that it is extremely important that research and
production of airless tyres is continued and increased. This type of innovation works well in
conjunction with several engineering codes of ethics, and thus should be embraced by
engineers everywhere. Cars are things that people use every day, so any improvements over
existing designs would affect the lives of the majority of people. Learning about such a topic,
therefore, I believe holds extreme value- especially for us freshmen engineering students. In
doing research into these kinds of topics that hold significant meaning, we can see that what
we will do can make a difference.
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