Tire Kinematics

 

Figure 1  Tire Kinematics

 

Normal penetration depends on the normal direction of contact coordinate.

 

              (1)

 

Where,  is the carcass radius of toroidal and  is the contact radius from carcass center.

 

Figure 2  Normal Penetration

 

Inclination angle was defined

 

     (2)

 

The contact point position vector  was defined as following equation.

 

               (3)

 

where,

 

 is the position vector of tire.

 is the position vector from the tire center to contact point.

 

Also, the contact point velocity vector  is defined.

 

                       (4)

               (5)

            (6)

               (7)

                          (8)

                   (9)

 

Where,

 

 is the angular velocity vector of tire.

 spin direction unit vector.

 

The circumferential velocity of the contact point p,

 

                 (10)

                               (11)

                                  (12)

                               (13)

 

The lateral slip velocity of the contact point p,

 

                       (14)

 

The normal penetration velocity, ,

 

                               (15)