The ability of an automobile tyre to ‘grip’ the road and avoid skidding is ultimately dependent upon the events in the tyre-road interface. This seems obvious, and yet some 70 years after pneumatic rubber tyres were first put to use we are not able to explain fully the frictional processes between the tyre and the road. Over 650 papers have been published prior to 1970 on some aspect of tyre be...

Waste tyres and their accumulation is a global environmental concern; they are not biodegradable, and, globally, an estimated 1.5 billion generated annually. Every year around 350,000 tons of end-of-life (ELT) managed in Italy, collected from cars, two-wheeled vehicles, trucks, up to large quarry vehicles agricultural vehicles. ELTs sent for material or energy recovery, line with the circular e...