Yokohama Rubber Co. has developed a simulation technology for multi-objective design exploration of rubber materials.
According to the company, the new technology was developed to support “innovative thinking about rubber material design,” including creating tires that meet the highest standards in areas that normally are at odds with each other, such as low fuel consumption and safety or ultralight weight and high rigidity.
The new technology differs from the previous simulation methods that assumed the use of actual rubber materials. “Instead, the new simulation technology creates rubber material models based on virtual morphologies, thus enabling simulations of various morphologies. By changing the morphological parameters (variables), the new simulation technology enables us to create huge-scale simulation models consisting of about one billion elements having various morphologies,” Yokohama said in a statement.