INDEX

CONTENTS Page No’s

ABSTRACT i
NOMENCLATURE ii
LIST OF FIGURES iii
LIST OF TABLES v

CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Tyre Axis Terminology 1
1.2 Performance parameters of tyre 2
1.2.1 Rolling resistance 2
1.2.2 Tyre temperature 2
1.2.3 Tyre Inflation Pressure and Load 2
1.2.4 Speed of Vehicle 2
1.2.5 Tyre Material Design 3
1.2.6 Tyre Slip Angle 3
1.2.7 Tyre Wear 3
1.2.8 Road Surface and Styles of Driving 3
1.2.9 Tyre selection 3
1.2.10 Load capacity 3
1.3 Inflation Pressure 4
1.3.1 Over Inflation 4
1.3.2 Under Inflation 4
1.3.3 Proper Inflation 4
1.3.4 Speed 5
1.4 Few common premature Tyre failure & its causes 5
1.5 How to avoid such failures 5
1.6 Tread Looseness or Heat failure 6
1.7 Road Traffic safety effect on tyre life 6
1.8 Distance required to stop vehicle influenced parameters 7
1.9 Tyre types 8
1.9.1 Classification according to structure 8
1.9.2 Classification according to season 9
1.9.3 Classification according to application 9
1.10 Life of car tyre 10

CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE SURVEY 11
CHAPTER 3
CALCULATIONS
3.1 Calculation of inflation pressure in tyres 12
3.2 Calculation for Rolling loss with respect to inflation pressure 13
3.2.1 Rolling resistance for considered loads 13
3.3 Calculation for Fuel consumption with respect to Rolling loss 14
3.4 The weights considered for analysis 16
CHAPTER 4
INTRODUCTION TO CAD
4.1 Types of CAD Software 18
4.1.1 2D CAD 18
4.1.2 3D CAD 18
4.1.3 3D Wireframe and surface modelling 18
4.1.4 Solid modelling 18
4.2 Introduction to Pro-Engineer software 18
4.2.1 Pro-Engineer wildfire benefits 19
4.3 Different Modules in Pro-Engineer software 19
4.4 3D Models of Tyre, Rim and Tyre assembly 20
CHAPTER 5
INTRODUCTION TO FEM
5.1 Introduction 25
5.2 General Description of FEM 26
5.3 Advantages of FEM 26
5.4 Limitations of FEM 27
5.5 Basic approach to FEA 27
CHAPTER 6
INTRODUCTION TO ANSYS SOFTWARE
6.1 Introduction to ANSYS Program 30
6.2 Evolution of ANSYS Program 30
6.3 Overview of the program 30
6.4 Reducing the design and manufacturing costs using ANSYS 31
6.5 Procedure for ANSYS analysis 31
6.6 Overview of Structural analysis 33
6.6.1 Types of Structural analysis 33
 6.7 Material properties of Rubber 34
CHAPTER 7
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF CAR TYRE
7.1 Skoda Rapid car tyre model 35
7.1.1 Analysis of Car weight + 5 persons weight 36
7.1.2 Analysis of Car weight + 6 persons weight 38
7.1.3 Analysis of Car weight + 7 persons weight 40
7.2 Ford classic car tyre model 42
7.2.1 Analysis of Car weight + 5 persons weight 43
7.2.2 Analysis of Car weight + 6 persons weight 45
7.2.3 Analysis of Car weight + 7 persons weight 47
7.3 Analysis of Skoda Rapid car tyre at Inflation Pressure 49
7.4 Analysis of Ford Classic car tyre at Inflation Pressure 50
CHAPTER 8
ANALYSIS OF RESULTS 52
CHAPTER 9
CONCLUSION 56
REFERENCES 58
JOURNAL CERTIFICATE PUBLISHED IN IJIRAE , VOL. 1, ISSUE 8, SEPT 2014