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

2. Continental’s R&D activities in Slovakia (Tires)
Current Trends in tire development
Potential co-operation fields

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

4. Continental‘s R&D activities in SK
Hannover / DE
Global Technology
Center
Púchov / SK
Hannover / DE
R&D MATADOR
Púchov / SK
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
Integrating
Growing

5. Continental‘s R&D activities in SK
Tire Line Development
Technical Benchmark
Technology Development
Development of Production Tools
FEM Simulation
Material Development

6. We Shape the Megatrends in the Automotive Industry Safety, Environment, Information, Affordable cars
Doing more.
For zero emissions.
Doing more.
For safe mobility.
Doing more.
For global mobility.
Doing more.
For intelligent driving.

7. Major challenges (PLT, CVT)
New legal limits in EU
Introduction of label system ww
Solving various target conflicts
Increasing requirements for load capability
New tire sizes (reduced diameter or aspect ratio)
Complexity management
Tire Noise
Rollling Resistance
Wet Braking

8. 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

9. Co-operation PLT Adhesion Aquaplaning Tread pattern Tyre noise
FE of a tyre tread model
Aquaplaning
Tyre noise
Rolling resistance

10. Co-operation CVT What do we do? Construction & contour optimization
Marketing Request
Virtual Development
Experimental Phase
Validation
Industrializa-tion
Marketing Request
Virtual Development
Experimental Phase
Validation
Industrializa-tion
What do we do?
Start of serial production
Construction & contour optimization
Validation by FEM calculations
Footprints
Belt Durability & Rolling Resistance
Wear - mileage
Bead endurance
Groove cracking
Reference tire model
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

11. 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)

12. Thank you for your interest