Abstract. Different polymeric fibrous materials, such as polyester, nylon, aramid and rayon, can be employed reinforcement in tyres or other rubber composites. The present contribution focuses on the experimental characterization of rayon yarns cords makes some steps towards developing a constitutive model for cords, to later integrated into finite element procedure analysis fibre-reinforced Un...

Artificial Neural Networks are information processing systems. Over the past several years, these algorithms have received much attention for their applications in pattern completing, pattern matching and classification and also for their use as a tool in various areas of problem solving. In this work, an Artificial Neural Network model is presented for predicting the tensile properties of co...

afinite element model of a bias truck tire under static vertical load using a global/local technique is designed in two parts. in the first part a previously created model for radial tires is developed to take the constructional variables of bias tires into account. it is shown that the technique can successfully be used for bias tires. the main challenge here is the selection of the initial la...