R D Continental in Pchov Radoslav Fujerik Continental

R & D Continental in Púchov Radoslav Fujerik Continental Technology Center Púchov, SK 8. November 2011, Zlín

§ Continental’s R&D activities in Slovakia (Tires) § Current Trends in tire development § Potential co-operation fields M. Haufe/ Product Development Commercial Vehicles © Continental AG

Continental‘s R&D activities in SK § As centralized as possible to maximize efficiencies § As decentralized as needed to support specific markets Ø more than 50 nations Ø 6 ww R&D locations Ø prooving grounds ww Ø 15 ww tire plants Global Technology Center Hannover / DE Púchov / SK Local Engineering Centers

Continental‘s R&D activities in SK Hannover / DE Global Technology Center Hannover / DE R&D MATADOR Púchov / SK § committed to have R&D in SK § 15% R&D employees by 2015 § engineers / natural scientists § intermediate level of English § mobility / willingness to travel R&D CONTINENTAL Hannover / DE Joining M. Haufe/ Product Development Commercial Vehicles © Continental AG Púchov / SK Integrating Growing

Continental‘s R&D activities in SK Tire Line Development Technical Benchmark Technology Development of Production Tools FEM Simulation Material Development M. Haufe/ Product Development Commercial Vehicles © Continental AG

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Major challenges (PLT, CVT) § New legal limits in EU § Introduction of label system ww § Solving various target conflicts Tire Noise Rollling Resistance Wet Braking § Increasing requirements for load capability § New tire sizes (reduced diameter or aspect ratio) § Complexity management M. Haufe/ Product Development Commercial Vehicles © Continental AG

Potential Cooperation Fields § Vehicle Dynamics impact on tire forces § Road surface characterization and its impact on rubber behavior § Advanced understanding & numerical modeling of rubber - test, criteria, numerical implementation – under different load, temperature and time dependency. § Rubber Creep § Rubber Aging § Rubber Damage § Advanced pre-processing techniques – automatization § CT Geometry (parametric) automatic mesh § Optimization/Sensitivity in FEM tire simulations § Criteria dependent numerical optimization § Numerical modeling of snow M. Haufe/ Product Development Commercial Vehicles © Continental AG

Co-operation PLT § Adhesion § Aquaplaning § Tread pattern § Tyre noise § FE of a tyre tread model § Rolling resistance M. Haufe/ Product Development Commercial Vehicles © Continental AG

Co-operation CVT What do we do? Marketing Request Virtual Development Experimental Phase Validation Industrialization Start of serial production Construction & contour optimization Validation by FEM calculations Footprints Belt Durability & Rolling Resistance Reference tire model Wear - mileage Bead endurance Groove cracking New optimized tire model What do we want to improve? § Speed up FEM model setup procedure significantly (quality, accuracy, high level of automatization) § We are searching for partner in potential areas for cooperation: § modification/morphing of standard mesh to fit to input picture (CT – computer tomography of tire) § modeling of 0°layer in truck tyres

Your Contacts § Dr. Matthias Haufe, director of Technology Center Puchov § Martin Rypak, head of PLT Simulation § Jan Ondrisik, head of CVT Simulation § Radoslav Fujerik, head of Process Development (Curing & Curing Bladders) M. Haufe/ Product Development Commercial Vehicles © Continental AG

Thank you for your interest M. Haufe/ Product Development Commercial Vehicles © Continental AG