A Tire-Pavement Contact Model Derived from Measured Tire Characteristics

In the interaction of a truck tire with a pavement, tire-pavement contact area carries tire load on the pavement surface and transmits the loading into the pavement body. The vertical tire-pavement contact stress over the contact area plays an important role and determines the immediate pavement responses within the pavement structure, which eventually affect the long-term performance of the pavement. As a traditional approximation method in many pavement studies, tire-pavement contact stress is frequently assumed to be uniformly distributed over a circular contact area, and simply equal to the tire pressure. However, measurements of tire-pavement contact interaction have demonstrated that the tire-pavement contact stress and contact area are quite different from the traditional tire model. In this study, the measurement data of tire-pavement interaction under various tire loading conditions was analyzed to characterize the tire-pavement contact area and the relationship with tire load and tire inflation pressure. The characterized tire-pavement contact area was used to modify the traditional tire model in different ways to more accurately represent the vertical tire-pavement contact stress.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784480052.012
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  • © 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Guo, Runhua
  • Wang, Feng
• Conference:
  • Fourth Geo-China International Conference
  • Location: Shandong , China
  • Date: 2016-7-25 to 2016-7-27
• Publication Date: 2016

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 94-103
• Monograph Title: Geo-China 2016: Innovative and Sustainable Solutions in Asphalt Pavements

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Axle load force; Load tests; Mathematical models; Rolling contact
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01609467
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784480052
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Sep 1 2016 9:06AM