Hello again.
To follow up with a previous post it seems like there is a decent grey area that these tires are leaving us in. By these tires I'm referring to the 10" Hoosiers and by grey area I'm referring to the Normal loads well within formula range that haven't been tested at the TTC facility.
The TTC data being the great resource that it is has provided us with data from normal loads of 222N-1112N. However as stated in a previous post its not unreasonable for some teams to reach as high as 1800 N of FZ on these tires. With such loading being highly dependent on cornering and aerodynamic characteristics of that maneuver it would seem that the Load sensitivity of the tires would be quite significant in these regions.
So I bring this topic to all those far more knowledgeable than I, as I would be interested in seeing what typical behavior for these tires are at higher loads. Is the load sensitivity linear? constant? Progressive? Digressive?
With this decent pool of data at relatively low normal loads is there a reasonable or semi accurate way any of you have gone through to extrapolate our data out to fit these loading conditions? This seems like a pretty universal challenge that most teams should be facing no?
Signed,
- A curious engineer.