Making FEM Tire Model And Applying It For Durability Simulation

In recent years, CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) has become very popular for effective development of many industrial products. In the development of automobile, CAE has been applied in many fields. About endurance and fatigue analyses of automobile, it is necessary to simulate the force by road input, and accurate tire model is necessary for this. But the construction of tire is very complicated and its model is so complicated that large calculation resource is necessary. Such a simulation is not useful for actual automobile development. Then we tried making simplified tire simulation model that express the tire properties of minimum requirement. After developing tire model, we applied the model to curb striking simulation to confirm the availability of the model.