 | B arry's Tire Tech This is a series of articles on the technical aspects of tires, their care and usage. My primary purpose in these articles is to help people understand tires and thereby reduce the risks we all face every day. ..........and since tires is just about the only thing I know about.......... Please drop me a note if you have a topic you want to see: Barry@BarrysTireTech.com |
Main Page: I hope you enjoy my website, but more importantly, I hope you learn something as well. I am not going to pretend that this website is going to cover everything. In fact, I'm only going to cover subjects that either need clarification or have not been covered somewhere else. That means this is going to be fairly advanced - not for the beginner! If you ARE a beginner - or don't find what you are looking for, may I suggest you visit: Tire Rack's Tire Tech Area.Also, the articles listed below are sorted by the last time I worked on them - that is, chronologically. If you want to learn about tires and the Tire Rack artcles are not technical enough, here's that same list, but sorted by topic, so that the more basic articles are first, with the more in-depth articles lower on the list. But before going much further, I want to make a few things clear:
BTW, I want to publicly point out how much work it is to put one of these web sites together. Hats off to those of you who do this every day!! Here is what I have posted so far: Monthly Blog (New October, 2024) List of Articles Grouped by Topic. Links to Useful and Interesting Websites Other Types of Tires (New ???, 2024) Quality and Quality Systems (New ???, 2024) Tire Rubber Chemistry #1 (New ????, 2024) Analyzing Failed Tires - Part 2(New Sep???, 2024) Analyzing Failed Tires (New Aug, 2024) Footprint / Contact Patch (Updated Aug, 2024) Ride and Handling (New July, 2024) More Tire Physics (New June, 2024) The Physics (and Math!) behind Tires - Part 1 (New May, 2024) Winter and All Weather Tires (Updated Apr, 2024) Explanation of Tire Failure Returns (New Apr, 2024) Force and Moment (New Mar, 2024) Repairing Tires (New Feb, 2024) Pressure Buildup Test (New Nov, 2023) Wheels, Rims, and Spiders! OH MY! (New Nov, 2023) Uniform Tire Quality Grading (UTQG) Ratings (Update Oct, 2023) Footprint / Contact Patch (Updated Sep, 2023) Match Mounting (New Aug, 2023) Drifts and Pulls (New July, 2023) Followup on Rolling Resistance and Fuel Economy (Revised May, 2023) Tire Wear: Irregular and Uneven (New Mar, 2023) Tire Wear: Normal (New Jan, 2023) Tire Traction and Traction Testing: Dry (New Oct, 2022) Tire Traction and Traction Testing: Wet (New Oct, 2022) Tire Inflation Pressure (New Oct, 2022) Ply Strength and Load Ranges (New Sep, 2022) Serial Number / DOT Codes (Updated Aug, 2022) Tire Aging and Weather Cracking (New June, 2022) The Ford / Firestone Controversy (Updated May, 2022) Tire Standardizing Organizations Rolling Resistance and Fuel Economy Vibration: Balance, Runout, and Uniformity Directional and Asymmetrical Tires Idealized Alignment Recommendation |