Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin

Michelin Recherche Et Technique S.a.

Yuji Kanno

Gael Roty

Nicolas Dautrey

Nanae Shimanaka

Ludovic Greverie

Yasuhiko Futamura

A tread for a pneumatic tire in which air column resonance sound is reduced and wear of the groove fences and tread portion are caused to be approximately the same, while drainage performance is maintained, wherein a plurality of groove fences are formed and are installed within at least one circumferential groove, extending from the bottom of the circumferential groove, and block at least 70% of the cross-sectional area of the circumferential groove, and the bending parameter of the groove fences, defined as E&#xb7;I/(h3l) (where E is the modulus at 10% elongation of the material used for the groove fences, I is the second moment of area of the groove fence, h is the height of the groove fence, and l is the width of the groove fence) is at least equal to 250 Pa and at most equal to 350 Pa.

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Yuji Kanno