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203 relations: A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Advertising, Aircraft, Alloy, Alloy wheel, Alphanumeric, American Broadcasting Company, American English, American football, Aquaplaning, Asphalt, Autoignition temperature, Ball bearing, Bayer, Belfast, Bicycle, Bicycle tire, Blowout (tire), Bridgestone, British English, Bus, Camber angle, Car, Carbon black, Cart, Caster, Caster angle, Casting, Center of mass, Centrifugal force, Charles Goodyear, Check valve, Citroën, Colorado State University, Compressed air, Concrete, Consumer Reports, Contact patch, Continental AG, Controlled-access highway, Copolymer, Cornering force, Cotton, Crain Communications, Crosswind, Crumb rubber, Diameter, Dissipation factor, Dry steering, Dunlop Tyres, ..., Elastomer, Emergency landing, Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, European Tyre and Rim Technical Organisation, Firestone and Ford tire controversy, Forge, Forging, Forklift, Formula One, Front-wheel drive, Fuel economy in automobiles, Fusible plug, Glass transition, Goodyear Polyglas tire, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Guinness World Records, Harvey du Cros, Heavy equipment, Heavy metals, Hubcap, Hydrophile, Hypoxia (environmental), Hysteresis, Ice racing, Ice resurfacer, Industry, IndyCar Series, Inflatable, Iron, John Boyd Dunlop, Kevlar, Landfill, Lateral force variation, Lawn mower, Leather, Lego, Lego tire, Light truck, List of inflatable manufactured goods, List of tire companies, Livestrong Foundation, Locomotive, Marketing strategy, Michelin, Moment of inertia, Motorcycle, Motorcycle tyre, Mountain bike, NASCAR, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Institute of Metrology Standardization and Industrial Quality, Natural rubber, Nitrogen, Noise pollution, Not invented here, Nylon, OTR, Outline of tires, Phenomenon, Pickup truck, Pirelli, Ply (layer), Pneumatic trail, Pneumatics, Point reflection, Pollutant, Polyurethane, Popular Mechanics, Portland cement, Presta valve, Product recall, Race track, Radial force variation, Radial tire, Railcar, Rallying, Reflection symmetry, Retread, Rim (wheel), Robert William Thomson, Rolling resistance, Rubber mulch, Rubber-tyred metro, Rubber-tyred trams, Run-flat tire, Schrader valve, Sears, Shear stress, Si 363, Silane, Silicon dioxide, Silk, Siping (rubber), Skid-steer loader, Skitching, Sledding, Slip angle, Snow chains, Snow tire, Soil compaction, Speedometer, Sport utility vehicle, Spring (device), Statista, Steel, Styrene-butadiene, Supercars Championship, Swim ring, Swing (seat), Synthetic rubber, Tension (physics), The Times, Thomas Hancock (inventor), Tire bead, Tire code, Tire fire, Tire lettering, Tire manufacturing, Tire recycling, Tire uniformity, Tire-pressure monitoring system, Toe (automotive), Torque, Torus, Traction (engineering), Trailer (vehicle), Tread, Tricycle, Truck, Tubing (recreation), Tubular tyre, Tungsten carbide, Tweel, Uniform Tire Quality Grading, United States Department of Transportation, Void ratio, Vulcanization, Wagon, Walmart, Waste tires, Wear, Wheel, Wheel alignment, Wheel hub assembly, Wheelbarrow, Wheelchair, Wheelwright, Whitewall tire, Willie Hume, World Rally Championship, 1,3-Butadiene, 20/20 (U.S. TV series). Expand index (153 more) »
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing.
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Advertising
Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.
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Aircraft
An aircraft is a machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.
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Alloy
An alloy is a combination of metals or of a metal and another element.
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Alloy wheel
In the automotive industry, alloy wheels are wheels that are made from an alloy of aluminium or magnesium.
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Alphanumeric
Alphanumeric is a combination of alphabetic and numeric characters, and is used to describe the collection of Latin letters and Arabic digits or a text constructed from this collection.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.
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American English
American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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American football
American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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Aquaplaning
Aquaplaning or hydroplaning by the tires of a road vehicle, aircraft or other wheeled vehicle occurs when a layer of water builds between the wheels of the vehicle and the road surface, leading to a loss of traction that prevents the vehicle from responding to control inputs.
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Asphalt
Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.
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Autoignition temperature
The autoignition temperature or kindling point of a substance is the lowest temperature at which it spontaneously ignites in normal atmosphere without an external source of ignition, such as a flame or spark.
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Ball bearing
A ball bearing is a type of rolling-element bearing that uses balls to maintain the separation between the bearing races.
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Bayer
Bayer AG is a German multinational, pharmaceutical and life sciences company.
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Belfast
Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.
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Bicycle
A bicycle, also called a cycle or bike, is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other.
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Bicycle tire
A bicycle tire is a tire that fits on the wheel of a bicycle, unicycle, tricycle, quadracycle, bicycle trailer, or trailer bike.
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Blowout (tire)
A blowout is a rapid loss of inflation pressure of a pneumatic tire leading to an explosion.
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Bridgestone
() is a multinational auto and truck parts manufacturer founded in 1931 by in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan.
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British English
British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.
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Bus
A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.
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Camber angle
From the front of the car, a right wheel with a negative camber angle Camber angle is the angle made by the wheels of a vehicle; specifically, it is the angle between the vertical axis of the wheels used for steering and the vertical axis of the vehicle when viewed from the front or rear.
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Car
A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.
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Carbon black
Carbon black (subtypes are acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black and thermal black) is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of heavy petroleum products such as FCC tar, coal tar, ethylene cracking tar, with the addition of a small amount of vegetable oil.
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Cart
A cart is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals.
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Caster
A caster (also castor according to some dictionaries) is a wheeled device typically mounted to a larger object that enables relatively easy rolling movement of the object.
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Caster angle
θ is the caster angle, the red line is the pivot line, and the grey area is the tire. The caster angle or castor angle is the angular displacement of the steering axis from the vertical axis of a steered wheel in a car, motorcycle, bicycle or other vehicle, measured in the longitudinal direction.
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Casting
Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify.
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Center of mass
In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space is the unique point where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero, or the point where if a force is applied it moves in the direction of the force without rotating.
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Centrifugal force
In Newtonian mechanics, the centrifugal force is an inertial force (also called a "fictitious" or "pseudo" force) directed away from the axis of rotation that appears to act on all objects when viewed in a rotating frame of reference.
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Charles Goodyear
Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.
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Check valve
A check valve, clack valve, non-return valve, reflux valve, retention valve or one-way valve is a valve that normally allows fluid (liquid or gas) to flow through it in only one direction.
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Citroën
Citroën is a French automobile manufacturer, part of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group since 1976, founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën (1878–1935).
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Colorado State University
Colorado State University (also referred to as Colorado State, State, and CSU) is a public research university located in Fort Collins, in the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Compressed air
Compressed air is air kept under a pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure.
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Concrete
Concrete, usually Portland cement concrete, is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens over time—most frequently a lime-based cement binder, such as Portland cement, but sometimes with other hydraulic cements, such as a calcium aluminate cement.
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Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports is an American magazine published since 1930 by Consumers Union, a nonprofit organization dedicated to unbiased product testing, consumer-oriented research, public education, and advocacy.
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Contact patch
Contact patch is the portion of a vehicle's tire that is in actual contact with the road surface.
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Continental AG
Continental AG, commonly known as Continental, is a leading German automotive manufacturing company specialising in tyres, brake systems, interior electronics, automotive safety, powertrain and chassis components, tachographs, and other parts for the automotive and transportation industries.
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Controlled-access highway
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated.
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Copolymer
When two or more different monomers unite together to polymerize, the product is called a copolymer and the process is called copolymerization.
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Cornering force
Cornering force or side force is the lateral (i.e., parallel to the road surface) force produced by a vehicle tire during cornering.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
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Crain Communications
Crain Communications Inc is an American publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan.
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Crosswind
A crosswind is any wind that has a perpendicular component to the line or direction of travel.
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Crumb rubber
Crumb rubber is recycled rubber produced from automotive and truck scrap tires.
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Diameter
In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.
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Dissipation factor
In physics, the dissipation factor (DF) is a measure of loss-rate of energy of a mode of oscillation (mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical) in a dissipative system.
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Dry steering
Dry steering is the act of turning the steering wheel of a vehicle while the vehicle is stationary.
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Dunlop Tyres
Dunlop is a brand of tyres owned by various companies around the world.
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Elastomer
An elastomer is a polymer with viscoelasticity (i. e., both viscosity and elasticity) and very weak intermolecular forces, and generally low Young's modulus and high failure strain compared with other materials.
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Emergency landing
An emergency landing is a prioritised landing made by an aircraft in response to an emergency containing an imminent or ongoing threat to the safety and operation of the aircraft or involving a sudden need for a passenger or crew on board to be on land, such as a medical emergency.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–11) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
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European Tyre and Rim Technical Organisation
The European Tyre and Rim Technical Organisation (ETRTO) exists to specify and harmonise sizes of rims and their associated pneumatic tyres across the European Union.
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Firestone and Ford tire controversy
The Firestone and Ford tire controversy was a period of unusually high failures of P235/75R15 ATX, ATX II, and Wilderness AT tires installed on the Ford Explorer and other related vehicles.
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Forge
A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located.
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Forging
Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces.
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Forklift
A forklift (also called lift truck, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials over short distances.
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Formula One
Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group.
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Front-wheel drive
Front-wheel drive (FWD) is a form of engine and transmission layout used in motor vehicles, where the engine drives the front wheels only.
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Fuel economy in automobiles
The fuel economy of an automobile is the relationship between the distance traveled and the amount of fuel consumed by the vehicle.
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Fusible plug
A fusible plug is a threaded metal cylinder usually of bronze, brass or gunmetal, with a tapered hole drilled completely through its length.
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Glass transition
The glass–liquid transition, or glass transition, is the gradual and reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline materials), from a hard and relatively brittle "glassy" state into a viscous or rubbery state as the temperature is increased.
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Goodyear Polyglas tire
The Goodyear Polyglas tire was a bias-belted tire first made in 1967 by Goodyear.
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Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturing company founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling and based in Akron, Ohio.
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Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Grand Prix motorcycle racing refers to the premier class of motorcycle racing events held on road circuits sanctioned by FIM.
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Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Harvey du Cros
William Harvey du Cros (19 June 1846 – 21 December 1918) was a Dublin-born financier, the founder of the pneumatic tire industry, based on the discovery of John Boyd Dunlop, a Scots-born Belfast veterinary surgeon.
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Heavy equipment
Heavy equipment refers to heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing construction tasks, most frequently ones involving earthwork operations.
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Heavy metals
Heavy metals are generally defined as metals with relatively high densities, atomic weights, or atomic numbers.
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Hubcap
A hubcap, wheel cover or wheel trim is a decorative disk on an automobile wheel that covers at least a central portion of the wheel, called the hub.
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Hydrophile
A hydrophile is a molecule or other molecular entity that is attracted to water molecules and tends to be dissolved by water.
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Hypoxia (environmental)
Hypoxia refers to low oxygen conditions.
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Hysteresis
Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history.
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Ice racing
Ice racing is a form of racing that uses cars, motorcycles, snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, or other motorized vehicles.
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Ice resurfacer
An ice resurfacer is a vehicle or hand-pushed device used to clean and smooth the surface of a sheet of ice, usually in an ice rink.
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Industry
Industry is the production of goods or related services within an economy.
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IndyCar Series
The IndyCar Series, currently known as the Verizon IndyCar Series for title sponsorship reasons, is the premier level of open-wheel racing in North America.
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Inflatable
An inflatable is an object that can be inflated with a gas, usually with air, but hydrogen, helium and nitrogen are also used.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.
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John Boyd Dunlop
John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 – 23 October 1921) was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland.
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Kevlar
Kevlar is a heat-resistant and strong synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.
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Landfill
A landfill site (also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump or dumping ground and historically as a midden) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial.
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Lateral force variation
Tires provide for steering, traction, braking, and load support by transmitting forces between the vehicle and the road.
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Lawn mower
A lawn mower (mower) is a machine utilizing one or more revolving blades to cut a grass surface to an even height.
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Leather
Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhides, mostly cattle hide.
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Lego
Lego (stylized as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark.
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Lego tire
A Lego tire is a rubber tire manufactured by the toy building block company The Lego Group for use on vehicles within their Lego building sets.
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Light truck
Light truck or light-duty truck is a US classification for trucks or truck-based vehicles with a gross vehicle weight up to and a payload capacity up to 4,000 pounds (1,815 kg).
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List of inflatable manufactured goods
This is a non-comprehensive list of inflatable manufactured goods, as no such list could ever completely contain all items that regularly change.
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List of tire companies
The following table represents a list of tire manufacturers throughout the world.
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Livestrong Foundation
The Livestrong Foundation (stylized as LIVESTRONG) is a United States nonprofit organization that provides support for people affected by cancer.
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Locomotive
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.
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Marketing strategy
Marketing strategy is a long-term, forward-looking approach to planning with the fundamental goal achieving a sustainable competitive advantage.
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Michelin
Michelin (full name: SCA Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin) is a French tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne région of France.
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Moment of inertia
The moment of inertia, otherwise known as the angular mass or rotational inertia, of a rigid body is a tensor that determines the torque needed for a desired angular acceleration about a rotational axis; similar to how mass determines the force needed for a desired acceleration.
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Motorcycle
A motorcycle, often called a bike, motorbike, or cycle, is a two-> or three-wheeled motor vehicle.
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Motorcycle tyre
Motorcycle tyres (tires in American English) are the outer part of motorcycle wheels, attached to the rims, providing traction, resisting wear, absorbing surface irregularities, and allowing the motorcycle to turn via countersteering.
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Mountain bike
A mountain bike or mountain bicycle (abbreviated Mtn Bike or MTB) is a bicycle designed for off-road cycling.
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NASCAR
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock-car racing.
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, pronounced "NITS-uh") is an agency of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government, part of the Department of Transportation.
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National Institute of Metrology Standardization and Industrial Quality
The National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (INMETRO) is a Brazilian federal autarchy, linked to MDIC, the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
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Natural rubber
Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds, plus water.
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Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element with symbol N and atomic number 7.
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Noise pollution
Sound pollution, also known as environmental noise or noise pollution, is the propagation of noise with harmful impact on the activity of human or animal life.
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Not invented here
Not invented here (NIH) is a stance adopted by social, corporate, or institutional cultures that avoid using or buying already existing products, research, standards, or knowledge because of their external origins and costs, such as royalties.
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Nylon
Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, based on aliphatic or semi-aromatic polyamides.
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OTR
OTR is a gang.
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Outline of tires
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to tires: Tire (North American) or tyre (British) – ring-shaped covering that fits around a wheel rim to protect it and enable better vehicle performance by providing a flexible cushion that absorbs shock while keeping the wheel in close contact with the ground.
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Phenomenon
A phenomenon (Greek: φαινόμενον, phainómenon, from the verb phainein, to show, shine, appear, to be manifest or manifest itself, plural phenomena) is any thing which manifests itself.
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Pickup truck
A pickup truck is a light-duty truck having an enclosed cab and an open cargo area with low sides and tailgate.
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Pirelli
Pirelli & C. S.p.A. is a multinational company based in Milan, Italy, listed on the Milan Stock Exchange since 1922, with a temporary privatization period by the consortium led by the Chinese state-owned enterprise ChemChina.
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Ply (layer)
A ply is a duggal of material which has been combined with other layers in order to provide strength.
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Pneumatic trail
Pneumatic trail or trail of the tire is a trail-like effect generated by compliant tires rolling on a hard surface and subject to side loads, as in a turn.
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Pneumatics
Pneumatics (From Greek: πνεύμα) is a branch of engineering that makes use of gas or pressurized air.
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Point reflection
In geometry, a point reflection or inversion in a point (or inversion through a point, or central inversion) is a type of isometry of Euclidean space.
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Pollutant
A pollutant is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource.
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Polyurethane
Polyurethane (PUR and PU) is a polymer composed of organic units joined by carbamate (urethane) links.
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Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics is a classic magazine of popular science and technology.
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Portland cement
Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout.
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Presta valve
The Presta valve, also called Sclaverand valve (SV) or French valve (FV) is a valve commonly found in high pressure road style and some mountain bicycle inner tubes.
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Product recall
A product recall is a request to return a product after the discovery of safety issues or product defects that might endanger the consumer or put the maker/seller at risk of legal action.
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Race track
A race track (or "racetrack", "racing track" or "racing circuit") is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals (e.g. horse racing or greyhound racing).
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Radial force variation
Radial force variation or road force variation (RFV) is a property of a tire that affects steering, traction, braking and load support.
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Radial tire
A radial tire (more properly, a radial-ply tire) is a particular design of vehicular tire.
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Railcar
A railcar, in British English and Australian English, is a self-propelled railway vehicle designed to transport passengers.
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Rallying
Rally is a form of motorsport that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars.
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Reflection symmetry
Reflection symmetry, line symmetry, mirror symmetry, mirror-image symmetry, is symmetry with respect to reflection.
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Retread
Retread, also known as "recap," or a "remold" is a re-manufacturing process for tires that replace the tread on worn tires.
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Rim (wheel)
The rim is the "outer edge of a wheel, holding the tire".
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Robert William Thomson
Robert William Thomson (baptised 26 July 1822 – 8 March 1873), from Stonehaven, Scotland, was the original inventor of the pneumatic tyre.
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Rolling resistance
Rolling resistance, sometimes called rolling friction or rolling drag, is the force resisting the motion when a body (such as a ball, tire, or wheel) rolls on a surface.
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Rubber mulch
Rubber mulch is a type of mulch used in gardens and sustainable landscaping that is made from recycled rubber.
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Rubber-tyred metro
A rubber-tyred metro, also spelled rubber-tired metro, is a form of rapid transit system that uses a mix of road and rail technology.
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Rubber-tyred trams
A rubber-tyred tram (also known as tramway on tyres, tramway sur pneumatiques) is a development of the guided bus in which a vehicle is guided by a fixed rail in the road surface and draws current from overhead electric wires (either via pantograph or trolley poles).
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Run-flat tire
A run-flat tire is a pneumatic vehicle tire that is designed to resist the effects of deflation when punctured, and to enable the vehicle to continue to be driven at reduced speeds - under - and for limited distances - generally between to, depending on the type of tire.
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Schrader valve
The Schrader valve (also called American valve) is a type of pneumatic tire valve used on virtually every motor vehicle in the world today.
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Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Company, colloquially known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892, reincorporated (a formality for a history-making consumer sector initial public offering) by Richard Sears and new partner Julius Rosenwald in 1906.
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Shear stress
A shear stress, often denoted by (Greek: tau), is the component of stress coplanar with a material cross section.
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Si 363
Si 363 is a bifunctional organosilane chemical used in the reinforcement of rubber articles, especially tires.
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Silane
Silane is an inorganic compound with chemical formula, SiH4, making it a group 14 hydride.
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Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica (from the Latin silex), is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, most commonly found in nature as quartz and in various living organisms.
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Silk
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.
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Siping (rubber)
Siping is a process of cutting thin slits across a rubber surface to improve traction in wet or icy conditions.
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Skid-steer loader
A skid loader, skid-steer loader, or skidsteer, is a small, rigid-frame, engine-powered machine with lift arms used to attach a wide variety of labor-saving tools or attachments.
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Skitching
Skitching (abbreviated from "ski-hitching" or "skate-hitching", pron: \ˈskē-chiŋ\) is the act of hitching a ride by holding onto a motor vehicle while riding on a skateboard, roller skates or bicycle.
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Sledding
Sledding, sledging or sleighing is a worldwide winter activity, generally carried out in a prone or seated position on a vehicle generically known as a sled (North American), a sledge (British), or a sleigh.
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Slip angle
In vehicle dynamics, slip angle or sideslip angle is the angle between a rolling wheel's actual direction of travel and the direction towards which it is pointing (i.e., the angle of the vector sum of wheel forward velocity v_x and lateral velocity v_y).
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Snow chains
Snow chains, or tire chains, are devices fitted to the tires of vehicles to provide maximum traction when driving through snow and ice.
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Snow tire
Snow tires—also called winter tires—are tires designed for use on snow and ice.
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Soil compaction
In geotechnical engineering, soil compaction is the process in which a stress applied to a soil causes densification as air is displaced from the pores between the soil grains.
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Speedometer
A speedometer or a speed meter is a gauge that measures and displays the instantaneous speed of a vehicle.
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Sport utility vehicle
Sport-utility (vehicle), SUV or sport-ute is an automotive classification, typically a kind of station wagon / estate car with off-road vehicle features like raised ground clearance and ruggedness, and available four-wheel drive.
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Spring (device)
A spring is an elastic object that stores mechanical energy.
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Statista
Statista is an online statistics, market research and business intelligence portal.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.
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Styrene-butadiene
Styrene-butadiene or styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) describe families of synthetic rubbers derived from styrene and butadiene (the version developed by Goodyear is called Neolite).
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Supercars Championship
The Supercars Championship (known as the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship for sponsorship purposes) is a touring car racing category based in Australia and run as an International Series under Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) regulations.
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Swim ring
A swim ring (also known as a swim tube, rubber ring, water donut, or, in the United States, a lifesaver) is a toroid-shaped (hence the name "ring" or "doughnut") inflatable water toy.
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Swing (seat)
A swing is a hanging seat, often found at playgrounds for children, at a circus for acrobats, or on a porch for relaxing, although they may also be items of indoor furniture, such as Latin American hammock or the Indian oonjal.
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Synthetic rubber
A synthetic rubber is any artificial elastomer.
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Tension (physics)
In physics, tension may be described as the pulling force transmitted axially by the means of a string, cable, chain, or similar one-dimensional continuous object, or by each end of a rod, truss member, or similar three-dimensional object; tension might also be described as the action-reaction pair of forces acting at each end of said elements.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.
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Thomas Hancock (inventor)
Thomas Hancock (8 May 1786 – 26 March 1865), elder brother of inventor Walter Hancock, was an English self-taught manufacturing engineer who founded the British rubber industry.
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Tire bead
Tire bead is the term for the edge of a tire that sits on the wheel.
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Tire code
Automobile tires are described by an alphanumeric tire code (in American English and Canadian English) or tyre code (in British English, Australian English and others), which is generally molded (or moulded) into the sidewall of the tire.
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Tire fire
Tire fires are events that involve the combustion of large quantities of tires, typically in locations where they are stored, dumped, or processed.
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Tire lettering
Tire lettering is the practice of putting, or drawing visible letters on the sidewall of an automobile’s tires.
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Tire manufacturing
Pneumatic tires are manufactured according to relatively standardized processes and machinery, in around 455 tire factories in the world.
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Tire recycling
Tire recycling, or rubber recycling, is the process of recycling waste tires that are no longer suitable for use on vehicles due to wear or irreparable damage.
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Tire uniformity
Tire Uniformity refers to the dynamic mechanical properties of pneumatic tires as strictly defined by a set of measurement standards and test conditions accepted by global tire and car makers.
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Tire-pressure monitoring system
A tire-pressure monitoring system (TPMS) is an electronic system designed to monitor the air pressure inside the pneumatic tires on various types of vehicles.
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Toe (automotive)
In automotive engineering, toe, also known as tracking, is the symmetric angle that each wheel makes with the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, as a function of static geometry, and kinematic and compliant effects.
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Torque
Torque, moment, or moment of force is rotational force.
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Torus
In geometry, a torus (plural tori) is a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three-dimensional space about an axis coplanar with the circle.
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Traction (engineering)
Traction, or tractive force, is the force used to generate motion between a body and a tangential surface, through the use of dry friction, though the use of shear force of the surface is also commonly used.
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Trailer (vehicle)
A trailer is an unpowered vehicle towed by a powered vehicle.
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Tread
The tread of a tire or track refers to the rubber on its circumference that makes contact with the road or the ground.
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Tricycle
A tricycle, often abbreviated to trike, is a human-powered (or gravity-powered) three-wheeled vehicle.
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Truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo.
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Tubing (recreation)
Tubing (also known as inner tubing, "bumper tubing" or even toobing) is a recreational activity where an individual rides on top of an inner tube, either on water, snow, or through the air.
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Tubular tyre
A tubular tyre, referred to as a tub in Britain, a sew-up in the US, a single in Australia, or just a tubular is a bicycle tyre that is stitched closed around the inner tube to form a torus.
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Tungsten carbide
Tungsten carbide (chemical formula: WC) is a chemical compound (specifically, a carbide) containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms.
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Tweel
The Tweel (a portmanteau of tire and wheel) is an airless tire design concept developed by the French tire company Michelin.
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Uniform Tire Quality Grading
Uniform Tire Quality Grading, commonly abbreviated as UTQG, is the term encompassing a set of standards for passenger car tires that measures a tire's treadwear, temperature resistance and traction.
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United States Department of Transportation
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is a federal Cabinet department of the U.S. government concerned with transportation.
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Void ratio
The void ratio of a mixture is the ratio of the volume of voids to volume of solids.
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Vulcanization
Vulcanization or vulcanisation is a chemical process for converting natural rubber or related polymers into more durable materials by heating them with sulfur or other equivalent curatives or accelerators.
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Wagon
A wagon (also alternatively and archaically spelt waggon in British and Commonwealth English) is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans (see below), used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people.
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Walmart
Walmart Inc. (formerly branded as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores.
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Waste tires
Waste or Scrap tires, also known as End-of-Life Tires (ELT), are used rubber tires that because of their abrasion state ("tire wear") are not safe for public traffic.
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Wear
Wear is the damaging, gradual removal or deformation of material at solid surfaces.
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Wheel
A wheel is a circular component that is intended to rotate on an axle bearing.
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Wheel alignment
Wheel alignment, sometimes referred to as breaking or tracking, is part of standard automobile maintenance that consists of adjusting the angles of wheels to the car manufacturer specifications.
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Wheel hub assembly
A wheel hub assembly (WHA), also referred to as hub assembly, wheel hub unit, wheel hub bearing, etc., is an automotive part used in most cars, passenger vehicles, and light and heavy trucks.
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Wheelbarrow
A wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled vehicle, usually with just one wheel, designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles at the rear, or by a sail to push the ancient wheelbarrow by wind.
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Wheelchair
A wheelchair, often abbreviated to just "chair", is a chair with wheels, used when walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, or disability.
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Wheelwright
A wheelwright is a craftsman who builds or repairs wooden wheels.
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Whitewall tire
Whitewall tires or white sidewall (WSW) tires are tires having a stripe or entire sidewall of white rubber.
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Willie Hume
William "Willie" Hume (3 April 1862 – 1941The Bicycle, 12 Nov 1941, p6) was an Irish cyclist.
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World Rally Championship
The World Rally Championship (WRC) is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer.
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1,3-Butadiene
1,3-Butadiene is the organic compound with the formula (CH2.
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20/20 (U.S. TV series)
20/20 is an American television newsmagazine that has been broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire
