Abstract
It has been shown that the vibrational response of a tire can be represented by a set of decaying waves, each associated with a particular cross-sectional mode shape in the region near the contact patch. Thus, it can be concluded that tires can be effectively modeled as lossy waveguides. It has also been shown that the sound radiation from tires is mainly from the region close to the contact patch. In consequence, it may be computationally efficient to analyze tire vibration and sound radiation in the region close to the contact patch by using a hybrid finite element model in which the cross-section of a tire is approximated by 2-D finite elements while an analytical wave solution is assumed in the circumferential direction of the tire. In this article, a hybrid finite element was formulated based on a composite shell model. The dispersion relations for sample structures obtained by using the hybrid FE model were then compared with those obtained by using a full, three-dimensional FE model. It has been shown that the FE analysis made using the hybrid 2-D finite elements yields results in close agreement with the three-dimensional model.
Keywords
Tire noise, Waveguide, Finite Elements, Tire vibration, Wave propagation
Subject
Acoustics and Noise Control
Date of this Version
11-2002
Embargo Period
2-20-2018
Comments
Yong-Joe Kim and J. Stuart Bolton, “Hybrid two-dimensional finite element model of tires,” Proceedings of the 2002 Fall Meeting of the Korean Society of Noise and Vibration Engineering, 6 pages, Seoul, South Korea, November 2002.