Indoor Tread Wear
Our tire testing labs are well-equipped to simulate driving conditions through indoor tread wear evaluations.
The ability to generate accurate and reliable data in the shortest possible timeframe is invaluable in the tire development process. Smithers owns a laser tread profilometer that can make accurate tread measurements, tread loss calculations and resulting wear life predictions.
Smithers uses a Bytewise CTWIST laser profilometer for mapping the tire tread profile at different wear levels of interest. It is normally used to measure tread wear at different stages of indoor wear testing using the Smithers tread wear machine. It provides fast and accurate qualitative and quantitative tread wear data such as irregular wear patterns, heel-to-toe wear, average tread loss, wear rates, etc. It is ideal for generating data for before-and-after tread wear comparisons. The profilometer is also used to provide standalone tread profile measurements of tires that are not run on Smithers indoor wear machine.
The data provided from a CTWIST machine includes:
Smithers uses a Bytewise CTWIST laser profilometer for mapping the tire tread profile at different wear levels of interest. It is normally used to measure tread wear at different stages of indoor wear testing using the Smithers tread wear machine. It provides fast and accurate qualitative and quantitative tread wear data such as irregular wear patterns, heel-to-toe wear, average tread loss, wear rates, etc. It is ideal for generating data for before-and-after tread wear comparisons. The profilometer is also used to provide standalone tread profile measurements of tires that are not run on Smithers indoor wear machine.
The data provided from a CTWIST machine includes:
- Color-coded topography map of the tread pattern that can reveal uneven wear and heel-to-toe wear
- Heel-to-toe, tread loss, and wear rate calculations
- 6PPD Alternative Development
- Accelerated Tire Aging
- Custom Product Displays
- Durability and Endurance Testing
- Electric Vehicle (EV) Tires
- Fleet Fuel Efficiency Analysis
- Force and Moment Testing
- Government Regulatory Tire Testing
- High-Speed Uniformity Testing
- Inflation Pressure Loss Rate (IPLR)
- Laboratory Tire Analysis
- Laser Tread Profilometry (CTWIST)
- OEM Design Validation
- OTR Tire Testing
- PRAT and RCF
- Rolling Resistance Testing
- Simulated On-Vehicle Accelerated Tire Testing
- Snow and Ice Traction
- Stiffness/Spring Rate Measurement
- Subjective Ride and Handling
- Tire Benchmarking
- Tire Buffing
- Tire Footprint Testing
- Tire Impact Testing
- Tire Labeling Testing
- Tire Modeling and Characterization
- Tire Proving Grounds
- Tire Quality Control Program
- Tire Shearography
- Vertical Load Testing
- Virtual Tire Lab