On the Shrinkage Fit of a Tire with Elliptical Allowance

Abstract

The writer made the studies on the stresses in a tire with elliptical allowance at inner surface under shrinkage fit to the circular wheel. These stresses are compared with that due to general fitting allowance, and relations between these stresses and tire thickness are shown, by making use of the results of numerical calculations. For practical purposes, we find that elliptical inner surface of a tire has not effects on the shrinkage stresses almost.