what tires will work best on dry, wet, flat, rough terrain.

[enderot11]

i need some background research ideas for my project, my question is "what tires will work best on dry, wet, flat and rough terrain." any ideas? thx!

p.s. i will be using lego tires.

[AeroSE]

Hi enderot11,

It sounds like you have a good start on what you would like your science project topic to cover. Understanding what tires will work best is very important in the real world!

I think you will need some additional information to make this experiment a success. First, what do you mean by work best? Is it the tire with the most traction in your conditions or the tire with the lowest rolling resistance? These questions will hopefully lead to what factors the experiment is trying to control. Once we know what factors we are trying to control, we can then develop a procedure for testing.

Given that your initial question included wet/dry and flat/rough terrain, you may need to build a lego cart that has removable wheels. This will allow for different tires to be tested on the same vehicle. This will help keep the results consistent. Now you need to develop a way to measure the performance of the tires on the terrain. You might be able to test on a slope and see which slides sideways first. Ideally, you would be able to measure the slope(Angle) at which the tires first start to slide for each of the test conditions(which tire on which terrain). This will provide you with the test data for you to analyze and to write a report based on your results.

Hopefully this helps,

AeroSE

[enderot11]

tanks for answering so quick! what i'm planning on doing is building a lego (motorized) rc car. i have the supplies but i'm not to sure how to conduct my experiment. "work best" was not a very good way of putting it, what i was trying to say is how well my car will perform (AKA, speed, handling, traction).

Thanks again, Enderot

[enderot11]

P.S. my car is super easy to change the wheels on.

[LeungWilley]

Hi enderot11,
Sorry for the delayed response. It sounds to me like you are very well on your way to an excellent experiment!

In addition to the suggestion by AeroSE, you may also want to take a look at the following:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire
http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/most_important.html

In particular, based on the characteristics (speed, handling, traction) that you wanted to evaluate, it may be good to review the concept of "grip" http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/grip.html

Best of luck with your experiment and please let us know if there's anything else we can do to help!
Willey

[enderot11]

thank you so much, this is perfect! There are a lot of technical words i can look up from those articles, the only thing is i am not allowed to use Wikipedia as one of my sources.

Thx, Enderot

[deleted-424657]

Hello!

Here are some more articles on how different factors of tires can affect their performance on different types of surfaces.
https://www.tirebuyer.com/education/tir ... erformance

This article also states the different types of treads on tires and what terrains it can be used on! I'm sure you can determine what types of tires to use on your lego car once you read this
https://www.pepboys.com/tires/treadsmart/tread_type/

Hope this helps!

[enderot11]

thank you for this info, but do you know how i should conduct my experiment, such as how to calculate speed, grip, handling and traction? i think i know how to do speed, but i could use some ideas.

Enderot

[LeungWilley]

Hi Enderot,
Here's an example that may be a good starting point:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... #procedure

Before we get too far though, what is the hypothesis that you would like to prove with the experiment? Once this is determined, we can better design / configure the experiment. Please take a look at this:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... hypothesis

Hope this helps. Please let us know if we can help with anything else.
Good Luck!
Willey