Tire Simulation Workflows with Endurica

Learn how powerful it is to do multiple iterations simulating aspects of tire performance including self-heating, rolling resistance, high-speed, durability, ageing and oxidation. Training licenses included for all of Endurica’s software packages. Live, hands-on, in-person training presented just before the Tire Society 44th Annual Conference. One-time, one-day-only event.  Join us on Monday, September 22, 2025, at an exclusive Endurica location – Mars Hall in Kent, Ohio – from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Breakfast, lunch, snacks, and refreshments included.

        Intro to the Endurica toolbox

• CL: Infinite life analysis
• CL: Safe life analysis
• DT: Damage tolerant analysis
• MP: Multiphysics
• EIE: Road loads

2.    Tire Modeling Workflow Basics

• 2D Static analysis: Mount, Inflate
• 3D Static analysis: Symmetric Model Generation, Symmetric Results Transfer, Footprint
• Steady State Rolling: Driving/Braking, Free Rolling, Slip Angle/Lateral Force Generation

3.      Infinite Life Workflow

• Rubber’s fatigue limit
• Crack precursors in tires
• Critical Plane Analysis for multiaxial loading
• Defining Steady State Rolling
• Computing Safety Factor with Endurica CL
• Viewing the Safety Factor sphere

4.      Safe Life Workflow

• Fracture mechanics: tearing energy and fatigue crack growth
• Strain crystallization
• Outputs: Stress-strain, crack growth, Haigh diagrams, Life sphere and crack orientation, strain, stress, energy histories
• Steady state rolling / basic tire durability for a single loading condition
• Lagrange rolling / sidewall lettering under ozone attack

5.      Incremental Workflow and Damage Tolerance

• Specifying a schedule of testing steps
• Tracking crack development, residual strength and residual life
• Combining transient and steady state load cases: damage during obstacle impacts
• Co-simulation and ageing

6.      Multiphysics workflows

• Steady state self-heating and rolling resistance
• Transient thermal analysis + thermal runaway
•  Coupling structural and thermal analyses
• Oxygen diffusion / reaction

7.      Road Loads

• Building a pre-computed map of tire behavior
• Analysis of real-time tire loading
• Rainflow counting and identification of most-damaging events

This special in-person training will not be repeated. This workshop will be a live, on-line experience next time it is offered.