R & D Continental in Púchov Radoslav Fujerik Continental Technology Center Púchov, SK 8. November 2011, Zl ín

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Continental’s R&D activities in Slovakia (Tires) Current Trends in tire development Potential co-operation fields

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Continental‘s R&D activities in SK

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As centralized as possible to maximize efficiencies As decentralized as needed to support specific markets

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more than 50 nations 6 ww R&D locations prooving grounds ww 15 ww tire plants Global Technology Center Hannover / DE Púchov / SK Local Engineering Centers Centers Centers

Continental‘s R&D activities in SK R&D MATADOR Púchov / SK R&D CONTINENTAL Hannover / DE Hannover / DE Global Technology Center Hannover / DE Púchov / SK Púchov / SK

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committed to have R&D in SK

15% R&D employees by 2015 engineers / natural scientists intermediate level of English mobility / willingness to travel

Joining Integrating Growing

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Continental‘s R&D activities in SK

Tire Line Development Technical Benchmark Technology Development Development of Production Tools FEM Simulation Material Development

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Major challenges (PLT, CVT)

   New legal limits in EU Introduction of label system ww Solving various target conflicts Tire Noise Rollling Resistance Wet Braking    Increasing requirements for load capability New tire sizes (reduced diameter or aspect ratio) Complexity management M. Haufe/ Product Development Commercial Vehicles © Continental AG

Potential Cooperation Fields

      Vehicle Dynamics  impact on tire forces Road surface characterization and its impact on rubber behavior Advanced understanding & numerical modeling of rubber - test, criteria, numerical implementation – under different load, temperature and time dependency.

  Rubber Creep Rubber Aging  Rubber Damage Advanced pre-processing techniques – automatization  CT  Geometry (parametric)  automatic mesh Optimization/Sensitivity in FEM tire simulations  Criteria dependent numerical optimization Numerical modeling of snow M. Haufe/ Product Development Commercial Vehicles © Continental AG

Co-operation PLT

 Adhesion  Tread pattern  FE of a tyre tread model M. Haufe/ Product Development Commercial Vehicles © Continental AG  Aquaplaning  Tyre noise  Rolling resistance

Co-operation CVT

What do we do?

Marketing Request Virtual Development Experimental Phase Industrializa tion Start of serial production Construction & contour optimization Validation by FEM calculations Reference tire model

Footprints Belt Durability & Rolling Resistance Wear - mileage Bead endurance Groove cracking

New optimized tire model

What do we want to improve?

  Speed up FEM model setup procedure significantly (quality, accuracy, high level of automatization) We are searching for partner in

potential areas for cooperation:

 modification/morphing of standard mesh to fit to input picture (CT – computer tomography of tire)  modeling of 0 °layer in truck tyres

Your Contacts

    Dr. Matthias Haufe, director of Technology Center Puchov Martin Rypak, head of PLT Simulation Jan Ondrisik, head of CVT Simulation Radoslav Fujerik, head of Process Development (Curing & Curing Bladders) M. Haufe/ Product Development Commercial Vehicles © Continental AG

Thank you for your interest

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