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
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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

TireScan CrossDrive

  • 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

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  • 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

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