I/UCRC Phase I: Center for Tire Research

/UCRC轮胎研究1160977弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学; Saied Taheri 1160982阿克伦大学; Celal Batur轮胎研究中心（CenTiRe）将重点支持轮胎材料、建模、制造和测试方面的研究计划，并结合橡胶材料原型和测试，以及并行计算和动态模拟能力。弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学（VT）和阿克伦大学（UA）正在合作建立拟议的中心，VT作为牵头机构。该中心的主要目标是与对轮胎技术感兴趣的各种行业合作伙伴和国家实验室建立正式的伙伴关系，并讨论基本问题和研究主题。该中心将通过在材料、建模、制造和测试四个研究重点领域提供创新解决方案来满足轮胎制造公司的需求。汽车制造公司对轮胎在其产品中的应用更感兴趣。该中心建立在弗吉尼亚理工大学（VT）和阿克伦大学（UA）机械，聚合物和化学工程多学科研究人员的知识和专业知识基础上。CenTiRe打算为该行业提供训练有素的本科生和研究生，他们将为这个不断发展的行业做出贡献。如果成功，拟议中的中心有可能通过开发新技术来提高美国轮胎制造业的可持续性和盈利能力，这些新技术将减少能源消耗，污染并提高驾驶安全性。该中心计划培养新一代轮胎工程专家，为行业提供潜在的员工。CenTiRe的成员和组织结构将促进竞争前研究，使成员能够迅速和具有成本效益地将新产品推向市场。最后，该中心将成为专业培训和教育的渠道，不仅是来自代表性不足和妇女工程团体的研究生，而且还通过其推广计划来自行业的代表。

/UCRC for Tire Research 1160977 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Saied Taheri 1160982 University of Akron; Celal Batur The Center for Tire Research (CenTiRe) will focus on supporting a research program in tire materials, modeling, manufacturing, and testing combined with rubber material prototyping and testing, and parallel computing and dynamic simulation capabilities. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT) and the University of Akron (UA) are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with VT as the lead institution. The primary goals of the proposed center are to initiate formal partnerships with various industry partners and national laboratories that have an interest in tire technologies, and to discuss fundamental issues and topics for research. The Center will fulfill the needs of the tire manufacturing companies by providing innovative solutions in all four research thrust areas of materials, modeling, manufacturing, and testing. The vehicle manufacturing companies are more interested in the application of tire in their products. The Center is built upon the knowledge and expertise of multi-disciplinary researchers in Mechanical, Polymer, and Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech (VT) and the University of Akron (UA). CenTiRe intends to provide the industry with highly trained undergraduate and graduate students who will contribute to this growing industry. If successful, the proposed Center has the potential to improve sustainability and profitability of US tire manufacturing industry by developing new technologies that will reduce energy consumption, pollution and increase driving safety. The Center plans to graduate a new generation of specialists in tire engineering providing the industry with access to potential employees. The members and the organizational structure of the CenTiRe will promote precompetitive research that will allow the members to rapidly and cost-effectively bring new products to market. Finally, the Center will become a conduit for the professional training and education of not just graduate students from underrepresented and women engineering groups, but also representatives from industry through its outreach programs.