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Static and Transient Analysis of Radial Tires Using ANSYS: Tgiurgiu@acttm - Ro Fciortan@acttm - Ro Cristinapupaza@yahoo - Co.uk
Abstract: - The paper deals with modeling and simulation of the static and dynamic behavior of radial
tires for civil emergency vehicles or military armored vehicles. The tire is a complex composite structure which
consists of rubber, textile-cords and steel-cords. For the computational model knowledge regarding the
macrostructure and microstructure of the tire, as well as experimental data is required. The Finite Element
Method and ANSYS software were used to obtain the static and transient dynamic behavior of the models. The
simulation results were compared with the imprint of the tire on the road surface.
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7 Conclusion
In this case a fine mesh was generated, The quality of the transient analysis results were
containing 270192 nodes and 151947 elements. compared with experimental data.
Structural deformations are processed in Figures 8 Figure 12 shows the imprint on the ground of a
and 9. military tire evaluated using ANSYS and Figure 13
presents the real print of the tire on a paper,
achieved during the experiments. A good fit can be
6 Simulation results for the entire observed.
model for an emergency vehicle tire
The tires on military armored vehicles have a more
complex configuration than the civil ones. The
complexity is required by the specific missions of
this type of vehicles and the intense stress subjected
by the tire during the movement on different types
of terrain.
The meshed model used for this simulation
contains 144320 nodes and 144320 elements, and
was generated in ANSYS preprocessing system.
Fig. 12. Imprint of the tire generated in ANSYS
Fig. 10. Total deformation during tire inflation Fig. 13. Imprint on a piece of paper
This study is an initial simulation attempt in an [4] Giurgiu, T., Ciortan, F., Pupăză, C., "Tire
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realistic results and improved design solution. [6] Ogden, R.W, Saccomandi, G., Sgura, I - Fitting
hyperelastic models to experimental data.
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