Rubber Tires Advantages And Disadvantages

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Rubber Tires:
Rubber Tires play crucial role in enabling better performance for the vehicles. These are important parts in automobiles, trucks, buses, aircrafts, tractors, industrial machines, shopping carts, bicycles, motorbikes and baby carriages. There are many applications of rubber tires and over the years the demand for this product has been increasing since many new vehicles are launched every day and also there are many number of vehicles which are already in use. Tires are the only point of contact of the vehicles on the road and the intentions of the driver who is driving the vehicles. Tires are strong and have flexible rubber casing which is attached to the rim of the wheel. Tires help in providing the gripping surface in order to provide traction and acts a cushion of the wheels for any moving …show more content…

The wheels have integral rims to the outer part of their body in order to hold and have good grip on the tire which is mounted on the wheel. The wheels are manufactured from welded steel which is a traditional material. The traditional materials are replaced by composites and few other advanced materials such as magnesium, light weight alloys and aluminum. With the helped of nuts and bolts the tire is tightened to ensure that the tire does not come out of the wheel and rotate in straight manner.
Rim:
The beads which we discussed earlier in tire parts are placed on the rim and in some cases it is placed on the outer edge of a wheel. The outer edges of the rim are shaped to make sure a proper shape is obtained on both the sides. This is done to ensure that the rim is radically cylindrical and have inclined inner wall so that the tire can be mounted on to the rim.

Inner tube:
The role of the inner tube is to make sure that the air which is pumped into the tube is not leaked out and provide smooth traction. The inner tubes are placed inside the tire.

Valve

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