The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Nicholas Anthony Gullatta

Charles Kenneth Schmalix

Brian David Digman

Evan Russell Cogansparger

Paul Bryan Maxwell

Michael Thomas Driscoll

Bart Wakefield Kimble

Michael Spiro Markoff

Michael Geno Cicchiani

Robert Steven Lundell

Richard Daniel Entler

Silvana Valencic-Laudato

Steven Emery Guba, Jr

Dominik Helmut Schreyer

A method for determining a sidewall toughness index for a tire includes providing a first tire that includes a pair of sidewalls. A first physical test is conducted on a selected one of the sidewalls of the first tire, and a result of the first test is recorded. A second tire of the same type as the first tire is provided, and includes a pair of sidewalls. A second physical test is conducted on a selected one of the sidewalls of the second tire, and a result of the second test is recorded. The result of each of the first physical test and the second physical test is normalized. A sidewall toughness index is generated by combining the normalized result of the first physical test and the normalized result of the second physical test.

Tire sidewall toughness index method

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Nicholas Anthony Gullatta