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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2013
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, Llc, Nashville, TN (US);
Hans Dorfi, Akron, OH (US);
Thomas R. Branca, Bradford, MA (US);
BRIDGESTONE AMERICAS TIRE OPERATIONS, LLC, Nashville, TN (US);
Abstract
A system and method for modeling a distribution of a tire footprint boundary () include inputting a finite element model of a tire rolling against a road surface described by discrete road surface coordinates into a finite element analysis system (). A finite element analysis simulation of tire model rolling against the road surface for a plurality of time increments is performed. A plurality of tire footprint boundary () data are generated, each having road surface coordinates on which a footprint boundary () overlaps during a unique one of a second plurality of time increments. The number of second plurality of time increments during which the footprint boundary () overlaps the each of the discrete road surface coordinates is determined for each of the time increments of the simulation. For each coordinate, the number of the second plurality of time increments may be associated with a color scale or grayscale ().