• Duty Cycle Performance Test of Retread Tires

    NCDOT Research Project Number: 2011-17

Executive Summary

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    The Fleet and Material Management (FMMU) of the North Carolina Department of Transportation manages the Retread Program.  Over the past several years, questions have been raised as to the performance of the various types of retreads, and how their perspective performance stacks up against each other, as well as against new tires.  In order to determine the cost effectiveness of the current program, the FMMU desires to perform experiments for comparative evaluation of performance of the major brands of recaps and new tires, when placed into a real world duty cycle environment.​

    No experiments have been identified where all the major types of recaps were evaluated against each other in a real world duty cycle environment.  Each tire has by itself been tested, but has been tested using dynamometers.
  
Raymond "Buzz" Powell
Researchers
  
Raymond "Buzz" Powell
  
Drew Harbinson
  
John W. Kirby

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Report Period

  • March 1, 2011 - September 30, 2014

Status

  • Complete

Category

  • Structures, Construction and Geotechnical

Sub Category

  • Miscellaneous

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