Airless Tires for Military Vehicles

[Are_grits_groceries]

Pneumatic tires take a lot of abuse in combat, which is why Resilient Technologies is trying to develop an airless tire. Because they can’t be punctured, vehicles equipped with such tires can stay mobile after taking damage that would incapacitate others:

The Wisconsin design breakthrough, first developed by Resilient’s in-house design and development team, takes a page from nature. “The goal was to reduce the variation in the stiffness of the tire, to make it transmit loads uniformly and become more homogenous,” Osswald says. “And the best design, as nature gives it to us, is really the honeycomb.”….

The patent-pending Resilient design relies on a precise pattern of six-sided cells that are arranged, like a honeycomb, in a way that best mimics the “ride feel” of pneumatic tires. The honeycomb geometry also does a great job of reducing noise levels and reducing heat generated during usage – two common problems with past applications.

http://www.neatorama.com/

They are working on passenger car designs too.

[Buzz Clik]

1. Sweet! Looks reasonable. I thought we'd be talking about these:

[LiberalFighter]

2. Is that what the brains of Replubicans look like? nt

[valerief]

3. I thought airless tires were developed a century ago and were

made unavailable like electric cars? You know, so we'd have to keep buying tires like we have to buy gasoline.

[Javaman]

5. naaa, it was a conspiracy by the compressed air industrial complex. nt

[valerief]

6. You mean the hot air industrial complex!

:rofl:

[Libertas1776]

7. I think air less tires

a century ago were simply solid rubber. And it made for one hell of a bumpy, uncomfortable ride.

[tularetom]

4. For what its worth a lot of the conveniences we enjoy today

had their genesis in military research and technology.

[proteus_lives]

8. Very true.

Computers, most air technology, communications, the list goes on!