Tire Modeling and Simulation Short Course
MARCH 20, 21, 22, 2023
The three-day course will be held at Tire Technology Expo 2023 in Hannover, Germany
THE COURSE:
The course covers the computer modeling of tires within a full vehicle system and is aimed at engineers and researchers working in both industry and academia. The subject matter will be of primary interest to vehicle dynamics engineers, for whom the tire is the primary force and moment generation element on the vehicle. The course is also useful to engineering managers who wish to understand existing tire modeling activity and its challenges, or to successfully implement new tire simulation processes in the workplace.
The course starts with an overview of tire force and moment characteristics and relates these to the physics of the tire-road interaction. Fundamental modeling approaches are discussed in such a way that participants can understand the concepts behind commercially available tire simulation packages or even attempt their own custom solutions. Empirical, data-based tire models and the associated laboratory and field testing of tires for model fitting have a special place in tire force simulation and are also addressed in detail. Finally, several state-of-the-art commercially available tire simulation models are presented, covering both families of empirical and physical models.
*COURSE FEE: €1,425 plus German VAT
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Program Schedule
Monday, March 20, 2023
MODERATOR: Mohammad Behroozi
09:00
Overview and Introduction
Mohammad Behroozi
General Motors
- Introduction to tire modeling
- Simulation tools
- Tire forces and moments
10:30 – Break
10:50
Tire Testing
Henning Olsson
Calspan Corporation
- How to measure tire performance?
- Overview of tire test equipment and test methods
- Strengths and weaknesses of common measurement approaches
- Starting with a set of 10 tires lying on the ground
- Finishing with a useful representation for vehicle handling
- Perils, protocols and Pacejka
12:30 – Lunch
13:30
Physical Tire Modeling – the Building Blocks
George Mavros
Loughborough University
- The Bush tire model
- A simple model for transient tire behaviour
- Friction thermal tire modeling
15:00 – Break
15:20
Tire Modeling Methodology Based on the Magic Formula
Carlo Lugaro
Alex O’Neill
Siemens
- History of the Magic Formula: 35 years of evolution
- MF-Tyre/MF-Swift: MF-based modular tire model
- MF-Tool: Tire model parameterisation
- Tire data acquisition methodologies
17:00 – Finish
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
MODERATOR: George Mavros
09:00
Finite Element Modeling of Tires
Mohammad Behroozi
General Motors
- FE modeling philosophy
- Fundamental understanding of tire mechanical structure
- Material testing and modeling
10:30 – Break
10:50
Finite Element Modeling of Tires
Mohammad Behroozi
General Motors
- Practical development of tire FE model
- Simulation of static and dynamic tire performance characteristics
- • Virtual tire development process using FE modeling techniques
12:30 – Lunch
13:30
CD-Tire Introduction
Axel Gallrein
Fraunhofer ITWM
- Closing the gap to structural analysis
- Multi-physical aspects of tire modeling
15:00 – Break
15:20
Tire Modeling in Jaguar Land Rover
Jan Prins
Jaguar Land Rover
- Vehicle development and CAE
- •Testing of tires for purpose of modeling
- Challenges and vision
17:00 – Finish
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
MODERATOR: Mohammad Behroozi
09:00
The Virtuous Circle of Tire Measurement, Modeling and Correlation
Mathieu Grob
FORS Performance
- One tire, many measurement sources of knowledge and understanding
- Modeling philosophy and guidelines
- Applications: from offline vehicle dynamics to driving simulators
10:30 – Break
10:50
Physical Tire Modeling for Real-Time Simulation/strong>
Flavio Farroni
University of Naples
- T.R.I.C.K: getting experimental tire interaction curves from vehicle data
- RIDElab: managing multiphysics in tire analysis and modeling
- thermoRIDE: a real-time physical tire thermal model
- adheRIDE: an MF-evo formulation accounting for temperature, roughness, viscoelasticity and wear
- VESevo: a device for non-destructive tread viscoelastic characterization
12:30 – Lunch
13:30
Terramechanics Tire Modeling
George Mavros
Loughborough University
- The physics of tire-soil interaction
- FE and analytical modeling
- Testing
- Full vehicle implementation
15:00 – Break
15:20
FTire Introduction
Joachim Stallmann
Cosin Scientific Software
- FTire – the physical 3D non-linear tire simulation model
- Outline of model formulation
- Interfaces, tools, and results
- Extended handling
- Thermal and wear model
- Flex-rim model
- Hard real-time applications