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Contributions to Proceedings:

G. Meschke, H.-J. Payer, C.H. Liu, P. Helnwein, H.A. Mang:
"3D-FE Simulations of Automobile Tires";
in: "Computational Mechanics 95 - Proceedings of the International Conference of Computational Engineering Science", Springer, Berlin, 1995, Vol. I, 290 - 295.



English abstract:
This paper is concerned with finite element analyses of automobile tires, involving realistic numerical models for rubber and the reinforced cords, frictional contact between the tire and the road surface and consideration of finite deformations. The long-term goal of these analyses is the optimization of the design of automobile tires on the basis of numerical simulations. Computational topics include a local mesh refinement technique developed for the coupling of a relatively coarse mesh for the tire with a considerably refined mesh for the contact zone of the tire and an efficient strategy for the iteractive solution of the systems of equations. Selected results from large scale analyses of automobile tires involving 45900 degrees of freedom are presented.

Keywords: automobile tire, fem, 3D, automobile, rubber, solver, FE, rebar, cords, Finite Element, contact, tire, 3D simulation

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