In an automobile, tires play a crucial role in ensuring dynamic stability of the vehicle, which includes cornering, traction, braking, driving and steering, providing lateral and directional stability.
All these criteria are satisfied by lateral and longitudinal properties of the tire. The vehicle handling behavior and thus stability largely depends on tire force and moment (F&M) characteristics. With the development of computational techniques, tire F&M properties have become the key input for multi-body simulation, which is the integral part of any new vehicle development process.