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A pin-on-disc study of airborne wear particle emissions from studded tyre on concrete road contacts

Ulf Olofsson, Minghui Tu, Oleksii Nosko, Yezhe Lyu, Senad Dizdar

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Abstract

Studded tyres wear surfaces of winter roads, generating inhalable airborne particles. In this study, four concrete road materials and two stud geometries were investigated in terms of wear, road material hardness and airborne particle concentration. The sliding contact between studded tyres and road materials was studied using a pin-on-disc machine in a clean chamber. The results show that the normal load and the stud size have a large influence on the wear and particle emission. It was found that the wear and particle concentration are inversely proportional to the hardness of the aggregate in the road material and proportional to the sliding distance. The particle size distribution has peaks at 0.2 µm, 1 µm and 2 µm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)165-172
Number of pages8
JournalWear
Volume410-411
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Sept 15
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We acknowledge the financial support of the Swedish Transport Administration ( TRV 2013/23888 ) through the BVFF financed project “Betongvägar – potential för minskat slitage och minskad partikelemission”. The valuable contributions from the project group consisting of Mats Gustafsson (VTI), Lars Kraft (CBI), Christer Johansson (Stockholm University) and Björn Kullander (Swedish Transport Administration) are gratefully acknowledged. Thank to EDS analysis Barbara Maroli for EDS analysis (Höganäs AB)

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Other Mechanical Engineering

Free keywords

  • Airborne particles
  • Concrete road
  • Studded tyres
  • Wear

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