The story of Ackermann steering
Pneumatic tires always roll with slip unless traveling straight ahead with their loaded rolling radius…
Author Joe Walter
Joe Walter
Joe presently enjoys teaching vehicle dynamics and subjects related to tire materials and mechanics at The University of Akron. He previously served as vice president of the Bridgestone Americas Research Center in Akron and president of the Bridgestone European Technical Center in Rome. Joe obtained graduate and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Virginia Tech a long time ago.
Never forget that a tire is a pressure vessel
The pneumatic tire is a rotating air spring continuously compressed in the region of road…
TTI technical editor Joe Walter discusses how a tire’s design makes it more than the sum of its parts
Surprisingly, composite and/or laminated materials used in manufactured goods predate the founding of ancient Rome.…
Could conductive carbon allotropes be applied in rubbers that can harvest electromechanical energy from electrified tires?
The likelihood of a car being struck by lightning during a thunderstorm is extremely low,…