Abstract:

    The presentation introduced an in-house work on the numerical simulation of tire development and manufacturing process. The work was done with a joint effort by The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and Sandia National Lab of US government. The materials include the theoretical development of the software of finite element method and its applications in tire performance modeling. The software flow, the work bench design process including automatic pre- and post-processing, and some application examples are provided. In addition, tire manufacturing process simulation in different tire manufacturing process steps was also discussed.

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Biography:

    Prior to his current position, Yang was doing tire related numerical simulation R&D in Goodyear Innovation Center in Akron, Ohio, USA. He wrote more than 20 internal R&D reports and traveled to more than ten Goodyear tire plants for his research results implementation. Yang holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China.
    Dr. Yang Wang has been with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company for 21 years doing tire related research in various areas in Research &Development and Manufacturing Technology. In 2008, he was appointed to Goodyear Asia-pacific regional quality manager in charge of tire quality control of ten Goodyear AP plants. In 2010, he was transferred to Goodyear’s External Science & Technology Programs. In this role, he has been responsible for creating and adapting Open Innovation opportunities for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in China.