Tire Modelling: What a Spinning Ring Taught Me About Everything
My M.Tech thesis was on standing waves in rotating tires. It sounds narrow. It turned out to be a masterclass in how rotation breaks everything you thought you knew about structural mechanics. The Problem Nobody Warns You About A tire at rest is just a pressurized toroidal shell. You can do Hertzian contact analysis on it, compute deflection, estimate contact patch pressure — all standard stuff. ...