An interesting application of our products is the possibility to study the interaction of vehicle subsystems with the tires and analyze the impact on vehicle performance and safety, thus enabling a more effective design of single components or finding targeted setup adjustments aimed at maximizing results during a motorsport event.
An example is represented by the possibility to combine thermoRIDE with a thermal model of the brakes.
thermoRIDE is a thermodynamic tire model which evaluates the tires thermal state in time depending on tires working conditions, set by the coupling of driver request and the vehicle design, and on tires interaction with the external environment.
With the addition of a brake thermal model, the interaction between brakes and tires can be studied. Different phenomena affect brakes performance, such as “blanking”, namely the increase in disc temperature due to reduced cooling airflow. This and other factors cause variations of brake disc temperature and consequently a different tire thermodynamic evolution, influencing even vehicle performance and safety.
Properly adjusting the brake setup, for example brake blanking, can be essential to keep the tire working in the optimal thermal window, resulting in maximization of the performance, especially during motorsports events when every little improvement can make a big difference.
An effective design of the brake system components which takes into account even the thermodynamic interaction with the tires can increase safety, especially in dangerous situations like emergency braking.
Generally speaking, since the tires are responsible for the generation of forces that allow vehicle handling, analyzing the interaction of each vehicle component with the tires during the design or setup tuning can bring a significant improvement in vehicle performance and/or safety.
