Tires

Tires

A ring-shaped covering fixed around the wheel-rim of an automobile that both protects it and provides a shock-absorbant cushion to increase vehicle performance and speed.

Industry: Automotive; Rubber

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Carcass

Automotive; Tires

The supporting structure of the tyre 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.

Carcass ply

Automotive; Tires

Made up of thin textile fibre cables bonded into the rubber. These cables are largely responsible for determining the strength of the tire.

At a given air pressure, how much weight each tyre is designed to carry. For each tyre size, there is a load inflation table to ensure the inflation pressure used is sufficient for the vehicle axle ...

Caster

Automotive; Tires

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.

Centerline

Automotive; Tires

An imaginary line down the centre of the vehicle. Alignment tracking is measured from this line.

Centrifugal force

Automotive; Tires

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 tyres ...