Tire technology 2012 SESSION 1: A global insight into tire and raw materials supply and demand - A global look at tire labelling: market specifics, impacts and challenges from an R&D perspective - A global insight into tire and rubber supply and demand - Butyl rubber: the enable of mobility - Indian tire market scenario and its response to the global situation - Isoprene production from non-food biomass SESSION 2: Energy reduction through design of tires, vehicles and roads - The tire stiffness index TSI and how to calculate it: a test method for new passenger car tires with run flat properties - Enhancing sustainability and improving fuel efficiency - An OEM's tire requirements for low-carbon vehicles - Driving force: perspectives on new rolling resistance regulations - Trends in green tire manufacturing - Gripe, water film depth and accidentology on wet road - Rolling resistance – do we measure the right thing? - Fact-based trends in tire rolling loss: test labs measure rolling resistance force – what’s that in horsepower? - Overview of transport canada s light duty vehicle tire investigation and planned testing of class 8 heavy duty vehicle tires in winter conditions - Tire energy labelling and the UK consumer - Policymaking in the united states with potential impacts on the tire industry - Labaratory alignment procedure for the measure of rolling resistance regarding tire labelling SESSION 3: The new world of tire manufacturing - Hidden costs in tire manufacturing - Driving plant performance with manufacturing IT - Rubber mixing: Science or Black Art? - The next generation of modular tire measurement - Tire marking: full traceability and quality control 1 - State of the art for tire X-ray technologies - Ultra small – angle x- ray scattering study of silica flocculation in filled rubber - Enhancements in tire X-ray automatic defect recognition (ADR) - Green efficiency- tire mold cleaning by laser - High performance curing bladders - The application of effective radius measurment in tire pruduction - A new strip winding machin improves accuracy, flexibility of use, instalation time and operator access - Hydraulic nip adustment for highest-quality tire calender: pressure and position control - Datalogic automation matrix 410 and STS 400 vision solutions for tire handling in practise - On the reinforcing effects of multiwall carbon nanotubes in natural rubber-based nanocomposites - Shaping the future of tire industry through sustainable development SESSION 4: Tire filler technology: black, white and grey - Next generation tire materials technology - Modified carbon black with functionalised SSBR matching green tire properties - Rhodia newest – highly dispersible silica: multipurpose benefits for greener tire - Silica morphology and interfacial chemistry portfolio addresses tire industry challenges - Plasticisers for the tire industry: new products new trends - Tire derived pyrolytic carbon black from a commercial plant-process and material characterization SESSION 5: Trends and developments in steel, non-steel cord and hybrid cords - Fibernamics in tire - TBR tires containing advanced tire reinforcment materialm monolyx - A tire market model to analyse and structure growth in emerging markets - Sulfron to improve rolling resistance and durability of tires - FEA design-relevant fatigue testing of new tire re-inforcement concepts - On the road for new opportunities OFF- road- the advantages of twaron reinforcement in OTR tires - Cobalt adhesion promoters: current and future developments 2 SESSION 6: Devulcanisation technology and the use of recycled rubber materials in tires - Optimization of tread compounds - Ultrasonic devulcanization of used tires and waste rubbers - Heavy metal removal from water by modified tire rubber powder - The technical and commercial challenges of using recycled rubber as a compounding ingredient SESSION 7: Tire retreading: a new beginning - Tire retreading: anew beginning - The growing importance of extrusion in high quality retreading for different tire sizes - Modern extrusion technology in application to retreading - Aircraft tire challenges today with emphasis on retreading - Shearography in retreading and production - State of the art: tire testing in retreading - Problem with energy saving truck tires - Greg felder manager- industry standards & government regulation SESSION 8: Raw materials for greener tires - A complete re- think on the design of SBR/Br rubber blends for potential use in passenger car tire tread - Modified NdBr for easy rubber processing - Meeting the future demands with flexible, high- performing drive solution - Additive technology for tire formulations - Oils as a toolkit for better tire ratings - Process additives: a contribution towards green tire performance and process ability - Synteca 44- the new Nd BR from synthos S.A - Design of nanoprene- containing winter tire tread compounds - New laxness SSBR grades for improved tire tread properties 3 SESSION 9: The changing science of rubber material chemical analysis - Rubber characterization by low-field NMR - Chemical analyses of antioxidant efficiency in rubbers - Innovative experimental approaches to characterize filler-rubber interactions: towards the control of the properties SESSION 10: Biotechnology and the development of raw materials for tires - Towards generation of alternative rubber crops by genetic manipulation - Eco- friendly materials in tire compounds- long term sustainable growth - Guayule natural rubber latex blends - The future of natural rubber- taraxacum koksaghyz az an alternative source for natural latex and rubber - Metabolic engineering of rubber and resin biosynthesis SESSION 11: Intelligent tires: the coming essential vehicle component - Development process of indirect tire pressure monitoring from an OEM perspective - The new camber performance evaluation method - How sensorizing tire reduce management costs of truck fleet - Improving driver assistance systems by knowledge of tire properties - Intelligent tire: views, experiences and feeling - Curve speed warning performance optimization: tire outputs requested specs and performance example SESSION 12: Sustaining the road structure and protecting the tire - An appraisal of mass differences between individual tires, axles and axle groups of a selection of heavy vehicles in south Africa - A performance- based approach to improve road wear characteristics of truck in south Africa - Rolling resistance- only a tire problem? 4 SESSION 13: Tire inspection and evaluation: greater speed and greater accuracy - Investigations on the fatigue life at rubber interfaces in tires - Light scattering studies of filler particle De-wetting under strain - A new Rolling resistance measurement machine meeting new regulation - Elastomer characterization in fatigue and crack propagation - Analyzing tire performance via wheel and contact patch force measurements - Rolling resistance measurement on the road: a dream? SESSION 14: Tire regulations of the future: a global view - Tire energy labeling and the UK consumer - Policymaking in the united states - Shaping the future of tire industry through sustainable development - Laboratory alignment procedure for the measure of rolling resistance regarding tire labeling - Reference tires and reference surfaces: necessary components of tire regulations SESSION 15: Tire and road wear particles: a comprehensive evaluation of environmental health issues - Method for collection tire wear particles under realistic driving conditions- implications for research regarding environmental impact - Analysis of surface roughness for tire testing tracks: characterization of tire and road wear particles - Validation of a chemical marker and development of an analytical method to detect and quantify TRWP in environmental samples - Global assessment of tire and road wear particles in the environment - Potential for toxicity on the cardiopulmonary system from inhalation of airborne TRWP SESSION 16: Tire technology off the road - The transient thrust behavior of tires in soft sand - Tire soil interaction modeling within a virtual proving ground environment 5 SESSION 17: Natural rubber: a new science and new properties - Development towards new rubber grades - Reinforcement of natural rubber by silica fillers SESSION 18: New approaches and new techniques for tire mathematical modeling - Identification of a friction law for tire simulations - Modeling vibration and impacting behavior of tire by absolute finite element method - Advances in simulation of curing process of tires and rubbers - Tire force and moment modeling using FEA results - Tire analysis interface system (TAIS) - Development of a small scale tire for vehicle dynamics research - Parameterization of finite element tire models SESSION 19: Damage, wear and fatigue properties of advanced rubber materials - Simulation of the effects of interfacial layers on the mechanical properties of a magnetorheological elastomer - Enhancing magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) performance - Effect of the temperature during rapid tearing of rubber - Multi-scale modeling of damage and finite element analysis of rubber components - Providing reliable data for magnetic field design in magnetorheological elastomer damping applications 6