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A Laminated Ring On Elastic Foundation Model With Application To Analysis Of Tire-Road Contact, Chunjian Wang
A Laminated Ring On Elastic Foundation Model With Application To Analysis Of Tire-Road Contact, Chunjian Wang
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A deformable Ring on Elastic Foundation (REF) model has been widely used for modeling rotating structures such as gears, bearings and tires. This dissertation extends the existing work with three main contributions focusing on applications to tires: 1) The elastic foundation is endowed with unilateral stiffness, which leads to a nonlinear deformation dependent stiffness typical of some non-pneumatic tires; 2) The model of the deformable ring is extended from simple Timoshenko rings to a laminated orthotropic ring model, with bending, shear stiffness and extensibility in the internal layer, and transverse stiffness in the external layer; 3) Facilitated by the laminated …