- Industry: Automotive
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A wheel’s inward or outward tilt from vertical, measured in degrees. The camber angle is adjusted to keep the outside tires flat on the ground during a turn.
Industry:Automotive
Side or lateral force generated when a tire rolls with camber, which can add to or subtract from the side force a tire generates.
Industry:Automotive
This is a reinforcing filler which, when incorporated into the tire rubber compound, gives it a high resistance to wear.
Industry:Automotive
The supporting structure of the tire consisting of plies anchored to the bead on one side and running in a radius to the other side and anchoring to the bead. Also called casing.
Industry:Automotive
Made up of thin textile fiber cables bonded into the rubber. These cables are largely responsible for determining the strength of the tire.
Industry:Automotive
At a given air pressure, how much weight each tire is designed to carry. For each tire size, there is a load inflation table to ensure the inflation pressure used is sufficient for the vehicle axle load.
Industry:Automotive
The angle between a line drawn vertically through a wheel’s centerline and the axis around which the wheel is steered; improves a car’s directional stability and on-center feel.
Industry:Automotive
An imaginary line down the center of the vehicle. Alignment tracking is measured from this line.
Industry:Automotive
The sideways acceleration, measured in g’s, of an object in curvilinear motion. As a car traverses a curve, centrifugal force acts on it and tries to pull it outward. To counteract this, the tires develop an equal and opposite force acting against the road. Also called lateral force.
Industry:Automotive
The amount of air pressure in a tire, measured in pounds per square inch (psi) before a tire has built up heat from driving.
Industry:Automotive
