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- From: kriman@acsu.buffalo.edu (Alfred M. Kriman)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech,sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Need Formula For Tire Friction
- Summary: Axle wear could be an issue.
- Keywords: differential, transaxle, limited-slip
- Message-ID: <Bt8tKy.LH0@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 18:19:46 GMT
- References: <h85mx6k.westes@netcom.com> <1992Aug15.200403.18303@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
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- In article <1992Aug15.200403.18303@cabot.balltown.cma.COM> richard welty
- (welty@cabot.balltown.cma.COM) replies to:
- >article <h85mx6k.westes@netcom.com> Will Estes westes@netcom.com writing:
- >>I recently had a bad experience with a small "toy" spare tire
- >>on my Honda Prelude. After driving on it at 50 mph for only
- >>10 miles it heated up almost to the point where it was
- >>smoking.
- >
- >
- >>What I would like is some formula that takes as its input
- >>the load on the tire, the diameter of the tire, and the
- >>width of the tread, and gives as its output some sort of
- >>"friction number" that could be used to determine whether
- >>the tire will get too hot or not. Does anyone know of
- >>such a formula? Are there other major input variables
- >>I'm missing here?
- [vide infra]
- >
- >yes, lots.
- >
- >you need to know the characteristics of the tire compound,
- >the weight/load on the tire from the car (and its operation),
- >the inflation of the tires, and so forth.
- >
- >i think that it will prove to be too complicated a computation
- >to be worth trying to do, unless you happen to work for a tire
- >company and have the necessary resources.
- >
- >trust the speed rating, and keep your tires properly inflated.
-
- The drive wheels of a car do not spin freely relative to each other.
- A differential on the rear axle allows tires on a rear-wheel drive vehicle
- to rotate at different speeds. This way, when the car turns, the tires
- don't "drag" each other. I don't know details for front- and four-wheel
- drive, but the same problem must be solved -- torque transfer to wheels
- spinning at different speeds. In the simplest differentials, there is no
- part whose load or wear depends on the _difference_ in speeds, but this
- cannot be true of all differentials, particularly the limited-slip
- differentials. For vehicles with such differentials, tire-heating may not
- be the biggest problem.
- Can someone offer an informed opinion?
-