31-01-2009, 12:26 AM
To most people tyres are air filled rubber rings a car runs on. But for the more analytically minded a tyre can have several definitions. Geometrically, it is a torus, mechanically it is a flexible membrane pressure container, structurally a high performance composite and chemically, a tyre is composed of long chain macromolecules. Every one of you in your life time have encountered with tyres in the form of punctures replacement sets and also in many other form, but, most of the people are not aware of what comprises the tyres or what actually a tyre is? So in order to entails what tyre designers and manufacturing company does today, my seminar takes you to the history, design aspects of automobile tyres. It will also help you in reading a tyre.
