Vehicle and tire makers are always focused on finding innovative ways to improve safety. An interesting application of our products in this regard is the possibility to study the influence of one or more components on tire wear, by exploiting the weaRIDE module.
weaRIDE is a wear tire model able to provide real-time tire compound thickness degradation depending on tire working conditions and its interaction with the external environment.
With the employment of TRICK tool, outdoor tests can be used to get information on tire-road interaction, needed for the tire wear model to work, by using different vehicle setups or subsystems design, whose impact on wear is to be analyzed. weaRIDE can be then exploited to evaluate tire wear for each of these configurations, allowing to make considerations on the components used during the tests.
An example is the possibility to test different suspension systems with a professional driver on a racing track and then study their influence on tire wear through offline simulations with weaRIDE module or do the same during an initial design phase in simulator environments with the driver in the loop. This allows to pick the best system for a reduced tire wear and improved safety.
