Abrasion of Automotive Tires

Abstract This paper is intended to show that tire engineering is not concerned merely with improvement of quality, but also is concerned, on the part of engineers, with information on the friction phenomena in the boundary layer between the tire tread and the road surface. For a tire to have good abrasion properties, the resistance of the tread should be high and the work of friction should be as low as possible. Methods for measuring the work of friction are described, with some examples of influences which have control over it. While at the present stage of progress in technical developments, improvement of the resistance to abrasion of tire treads and in the design of treads is limited to small percentages, external conditions in service may increase the work of friction several fold. This accounts for common wide differences in the life of similar tires on the road. It is hoped that this paper may lead to further cooperative research on phenomena at the boundary surface between the surface of a tire and of the road. Such studies would be in the interest of the rubber industry, the automotive industry, and the consumer.

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Visual Safe Road Travel App Over Google Maps About the Traffic and External Conditions

International Journal of Engineering & Technology ◽

10.14419/ijet.v7i2.32.15697 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (2.32) ◽

pp. 283

Author(s):

Dr S.Hrushikesava Raju ◽

Dr M.Nagabhushana Rao ◽

Dr N.Sudheer ◽

Dr P.Kavitharani

Keyword(s):

Family Member ◽

Opposite Direction ◽

High Mountains ◽

Google Maps ◽

The Road ◽

Vehicle Load ◽

External Conditions ◽

Load Characteristics ◽

On The Road ◽

Safe Road

In travelling on the roads, Most of our people might get accidents because of lack of road awareness and the traffic potential, also this unpredicted traffic leads to delay in the predicted travel duration. To avoid this kind of odd experiences, the proposed work focuses on the vehicle load characteristics in the available road paths traffic that is existing in the distance of 2-3 kilometers. The characteristics dealt here are vehicle load moving in the same direction as well as vehicle load moving in the opposite direction, danger zones, any wild turns, floods status on the road, group of animals crossing or on the road, any road works intimation, any bridges or flyover conditions, any situational areas like forests, high mountains, lack of public in the areas in the coming 2-3 kilometers in that road if it is two way path in the same road or separate paths infrastructure available. This is more secure because authorized users only will use this kind of facility where users are authorized by their Unique aadhar Number along with their family member details.

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Heavy vehicles on the road towards the circular economy: Analysis and comparison with the automotive industry

Resources Conservation and Recycling ◽

10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.06.017 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 135 ◽

pp. 108-122 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Michael Saidani ◽

Bernard Yannou ◽

Yann Leroy ◽

François Cluzel

Keyword(s):

Automotive Industry ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Heavy Vehicles ◽

The Road ◽

On The Road ◽

Economy Analysis

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Identification of Risk Factors for Collisions Involving Cyclists Based on Gdansk Example

Proccedings of 10th International Conference "Environmental Engineering" ◽

10.3846/enviro.2017.112 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Romanika Okraszewska ◽

Kazimierz Jamroz ◽

Marek Bauer ◽

Krystian Birr ◽

Anna Gobis

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Traffic Management ◽

Weather Conditions ◽

Traffic Light ◽

The Road ◽

Road Users ◽

Organizational Type ◽

Road Speed ◽

External Conditions ◽

On The Road

The role of pedestrian and bicycle traffic in Poland has growing trend. The comprehensive traffic study, conducted in Gdansk in 2016, has confirmed the increase in the number of cyclists and their share in the modal split. Therefore, it is particularly important to ensure the safety of this group of unprotected road users. Only in 2015 on the roads of Gdansk occurred 93 accidents (excluding collisions) involving cyclists. As a result, 101 people were injured, including nine seriously and 3 people killed. The study aim was to identify risk factors for collisions involving cyclists based on data of accidents reported to the police. The following factors were analysed: the conditions for the drivers on the road (speed limits of, surface conditions), conditions for cyclists (cycling infrastructure, traffic management), external conditions (time of the year, time of the day, weather conditions), conditions organizational (type of intersection, traffic light) as well as the social aspects – the behaviour of all users.

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Countermeasure and Research of Activity-Based Costing Applied in the Enterprise of our Country

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.687-691.5085 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 687-691 ◽

pp. 5085-5088

Author(s):

Xing Wei

Keyword(s):

Business Case ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Activity Based Costing ◽

Comparison Analysis ◽

Present Stage ◽

Systematic Comparison ◽

The Road ◽

Existing Problems ◽

On The Road

At the present stage, there are many problems in the implementation of homework cost method in our country enterprise, and most of the enterprises face this or that kind of obstacles on the road of the implementation of homework cost method, so the business case with successful implementation of homework cost method is less. Through the research on the experience abroad and some successful application cases in domestic, theoretical reference and inductions of all the experts and scholars, the author has made systematic comparison analysis. In view of existing problems, he has put forward the corresponding countermeasure to the implementation of homework cost method in our country enterprise.

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Ukraine, Quo Vadis? Mirages of the Third Republic

Scientific and Analytical Herald of IE RAS ◽

10.15211/vestnikieran120213845 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 38-45

Author(s):

Viktor Mironenko ◽

Keyword(s):

Nation Building ◽

Political Regime ◽

Association Agreement ◽

The Road ◽

Thirtieth Anniversary ◽

External Conditions ◽

Development Goals ◽

Quo Vadis ◽

On The Road ◽

The Right

Ukraine has completed a long period of transformation of its political regime. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of State sovereignty, a discussion of its outcome is envisaged. One can look back on the road travelled. For 30 years it has been determined by the continuation of nation-building and the search for the right integrationist vector. With the formal completion of the former and the uncertainty of the latter, the danger of a continuing transformational crisis emerged.The article is devoted to the analysis of its nature and possible ways out of it. The nature of the «second transformative crisis» in Ukraine ambivalent. It can be both a factor of destabilization and degradation and an indication of the path to exit, stabilization and growth. Much, if not all, will depend on the elite’s willingness to rise above personal and corporate interests and its ability to learn from its own experiences, to consider external conditions and to offer development goals that can consolidate society. In the opinion of the author, the Association Agreement with the EU, in the process of its further implementation, could become a basis for targeting and a tool for achieving the objectives set. If successful, Ukraine’s experience of nation-building in the context of globalization may prove useful to other newly independent Eastern European States.

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