STUDY ON FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF TIRE BUILDING

In this paper, the building process of 385/55R22.5HN809 all-steel radial truck tire is studied, where ABAQUS is used to simulate the building process considering four building conditions including gluing of components on main drum, gluing of components on auxiliary drum, semi-finished tire and tire pattern. The material distribution of the finished tire is established and compared with that of the real tire, and the thickness of rubber compounds is analyzed. The analysis results indicate that the simulated structure has a good agreement with the real structure, and it can be used to guide tire construction and structure design. In the finite element model, the generalized Maxwell model is used to describe mechanical behaviour of rubber compounds, and the Rebar model is used for cord-rubber composites.