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Article

New Method to Evaluate the Groove Wander Effect on an Internal Drum Test Bench

by
Marius Staat
1,*,
Martin Gießler
1,
Frank Gauterin
1 and
Barbara Jungen
2
1
Institute of Vehicle System Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
2
Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute, 51427 Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Vehicles 2025, 7(3), 83; https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles7030083
Submission received: 7 July 2025 / Revised: 11 August 2025 / Accepted: 12 August 2025 / Published: 15 August 2025
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tire and Suspension Dynamics for Vehicle Performance Advancement)
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Abstract

This research paper describes a new method to measure the groove wander effect on real concrete road surfaces using an Internal Drum Test Bench. Groove wander describes lateral forces resulting from interactions between a tire and the road surface texture. To create these lateral forces, the test bench induces a continuous lateral displacement of the tire on a textured road surface. It was found that the groove wander effect could be reproduced on a test bench. The presented method was shown to provide reproducible results that meet the expectations from previous studies. The overall findings of the measurements were that smaller tires and tires with longitudinally aligned profile show higher susceptibility to the groove wander effect.
Keywords: grinding; grooving; roadway texture; tire road interaction; concrete road surface; lateral force grinding; grooving; roadway texture; tire road interaction; concrete road surface; lateral force

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Staat, M.; Gießler, M.; Gauterin, F.; Jungen, B. New Method to Evaluate the Groove Wander Effect on an Internal Drum Test Bench. Vehicles 2025, 7, 83. https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles7030083

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Staat M, Gießler M, Gauterin F, Jungen B. New Method to Evaluate the Groove Wander Effect on an Internal Drum Test Bench. Vehicles. 2025; 7(3):83. https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles7030083

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Staat, Marius, Martin Gießler, Frank Gauterin, and Barbara Jungen. 2025. "New Method to Evaluate the Groove Wander Effect on an Internal Drum Test Bench" Vehicles 7, no. 3: 83. https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles7030083

APA Style

Staat, M., Gießler, M., Gauterin, F., & Jungen, B. (2025). New Method to Evaluate the Groove Wander Effect on an Internal Drum Test Bench. Vehicles, 7(3), 83. https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles7030083

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