Yokohama Announces New Design Technologies
(Akron/Tire Review) Yokohama Rubber Co. announced that it has developed new, third-generation tyre design technologies. The manufacturer’s “multiscale simulation” and “multi-performance map” display information for optimal design proposals, it said.
Multiscale simulation allows for predictions of physical properties based on combinations of compounds and frictional coefficients, Yokohama said. “As a result, we can make more realistic performance predictions for vehicles based on more accurate wear forecasts of front and rear tires and other factors,” said the tyremaker.