Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS
Volume 13, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S1758825121501167
Keywords
Rolling resistance; contact mechanics; surface analysis; visco-elasticity
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- VILLUM Foundation's Matter [16515]
- Innovation Fund Denmark, ROSE Project [516000009B]
- Danish Road Directorate
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This paper introduces a versatile drum setup for measuring rolling resistance of small wheels, demonstrating the relationship between rolling resistance and surface texture, rolling speed, and load. The study shows that simplifying the experiment to achieve a high degree of control, accuracy, and repeatability is useful for validating and testing models for calculating rolling resistance.
In this paper, a versatile drum setup for measuring rolling resistance of small wheels is presented. The purpose is to provide a flexible setup for testing of models for rolling resistance under controlled circumstances. To demonstrate this, measurements of rolling resistance with a series of sandpapers of different grit sizes representing surface textures were carried out. The measurements show a clear increase in the rolling-resistance coefficient with increasing surface roughness, rolling speed and load. Numerical calculations in the time domain for a visco-elastic contact model run on equivalent surfaces agree with the trends found experimentally. We conclude that this approach to simplifying the experiment in order to obtain a high degree of control, accuracy and repeatability is useful for validating and testing models for calculating the rolling resistance for a given surface texture.
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