Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Tire Tread Wear on Block Level

Tread wear appears as a consequence of friction, which mainly depends on surface characteristics, contact pressure, slip velocity, temperature and dissipative material properties the tread itself. The subsequent description introduces model function frictional energy rate. A post-processing well an adaptive re-meshing algorithm are implemented into finite element code in order to predict loss terms mass. geometry block models is generated by image processing tools using photographs rubber samples laboratory. In addition, worn shape after test compared simulation results.