A Novel Technique to Measure the Rolling Resistance of Tyres Using Force Transducer

摘要

A novel laboratory technique has been used to measure the rolling resistance of tyres using a force transducer. The effect of inflation pressure, normal load and speed has been studied for two different bias-ply tyres - with and without treads. As anticipated, the results indicate that a treaded tyre has higher value of the rolling resistance as compared with a tyre with treads removed.