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Tire performance curves (cornering force, aligning moment)

Robert Di Cristofo

Tire performance curves (cornering force, aligning moment)

by Robert Di Cristofo » Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:00:28

Does anyone out there know of any sources of tire performance curves
that give cornering force and aligning moment as a function of slip
angle and vertical load?
Ruud van Ga

Tire performance curves (cornering force, aligning moment)

by Ruud van Ga » Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:41:27



>Does anyone out there know of any sources of tire performance curves
>that give cornering force and aligning moment as a function of slip
>angle and vertical load?

You can use Pacejka's Magic Formula (there are a bunch of variations
though) for that. Pacejka recently finished a book on his latest
formula (and other tire stuff).

Racer uses car.ini files which contains Pacejka sets. Some may have
been tweaked to get a somewhat different tire, but they're mostly
based on about 5 base sets. Try www.racer-xtreme.com and download some
cars to get some Pacejka sets (note I'm using quite an old Pacejka
formula with a, b and c coefficients.

You can see a (half-finished) explanation of the formula at
http://www.racer.nl/reference/pacejka.htm

Good luck, (good data on this is hard to come by)

Ruud van Gaal
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Sebastien Tixie

Tire performance curves (cornering force, aligning moment)

by Sebastien Tixie » Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:21:06

Cool, what's the name of the book please :)

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Ruud van Ga

Tire performance curves (cornering force, aligning moment)

by Ruud van Ga » Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:43:48

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:21:06 +0100, Sebastien Tixier


>>You can use Pacejka's Magic Formula (there are a bunch of variations
>>though) for that. Pacejka recently finished a book on his latest
>>formula (and other tire stuff).

>Cool, what's the name of the book please :)

Hi Sebastien,

Our HTTP is down for the most part, but a query did manage to get
this:
Tyre and Vehicle Dynamics (although it may also be called Tyre
Mechanics & Vehicle Dynamics; the first print actually had the words
Mechanics and Dynamics switched, so that never got released :) ).

Surprised you hadn't heard about it yet.

Happy reading (I must start reading it one day; it's well, somewhere
in my house ;-) ).

Ruud van Gaal
Free car sim: http://www.racer.nl/
Pencil art  : http://www.marketgraph.nl/gallery/


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