Tire Analysis

Analyze tire performance and tread to optimize tire designs and benchmark against competitive products

Tire manufacturers need to understand the changes of a tire under various loads and applications to improve handling and response. This analysis tool provides insight for a better understanding of tire design and how the tire interacts with road surfaces. Analyzing a tire footprint with pressure mapping allows engineers to see how their design improves:

NVH (noise, vibration, and harshness)
Overall Performance
Fuel economy
Longevity/wear

Pressure Mapping Solutions for Tire Design

Tekscan tire analysis solutions capture valuable interface pressure insights to address growing market demands. Intuitive, application-specific graphing and image analysis software enables quantitative and qualitative analysis of your tire design in ways the FEA cannot.

TireScan™ Detailed Tread Analysis

capture real-time tire contact pressure patterns

Capable of measuring almost any size tire from passenger vehicles through agricultural and aircraft tires
Fully integrated, ruggedized solution
Measures large tire footprints at a high resolution
250K sensing elements over a 508 mm x 508 mm (20 in x 20 in) area
Designed to handle harsh environments - shear forces, deceleration, toe, and camber

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High Speed TireScan

high speed tire performance analysis system

Capture the impact of speed, motion, and inertial forces on a tire at speeds up to 265 km/h (165 mph)
Array of pressure sensing elements scan at 20 kHz as the tire rolls across the system
Works with both flat track and drum high speed tire test systems
Evaluate tire performance at high speeds and identify failure modes
Measure tire distortion

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I-Scan™ for Tire Bead Analysis

measure bead seat / seal profile of virtually any tire-to-wheel interface

Acquire pressure profiles from outside the tire, past the flange and bead, to inside the tire
Compatible with slip ring for use while the tire is spinning
Long sensor designs available to capture inboard & outboard pressure profiles simultaneously

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Tire footprint measurement applications include:

Tire footprint pressure pattern evaluation
Analyze various tire compounds and tread designs
Assess suspension and camber
Sipe and tread block design and testing
Tire patch characterization on drum or flat track

Road surface predictive wear studies
Tire mold adjustment
Race vehicle "set-up"
Manufacturing quality assurance
Competitive benchmarking

“Over the past year, the High-Speed TireScan system has continued to provide new insights into a range of different tire phenomena. From high speed testing of motorsports tires, to detailed analysis of passenger car tires, up to high load testing of large semi-truck tires, the results have all been very valuable. We know that because people keep coming back for more data after their initial test results.”

-Henning Olsson, Sr. Director, Technology at Calspan

Read the Calspan / Tekscan High Speed Tire eBbook