POTENTIAL EVALUATION OF SCALING AND SIMILARITY FOR TRACTOR TIRES

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The common exercise in investigations and industrial applications for tires and specifically tractor tires is experimenting. However, there are difficulties which will be detailed in the text. Similar issues are encountered in fluid mechanics, but fluid mechanics studies sometimes involve scaled models and uses similarity approaches to overcome some of the difficulties. However only one significant study has been encountered in the literature about tire scaling and no study is encountered about tractor tires. In this report, scaling, similarity and dimensionless analyses are introduced first. Then the work about tire scaling is viewed. Points for scaling tractor tires are proposed. Some concluding remarks and propositions are made for future work.