Description

This paper reviews some steel tire cord manufacturing aspects that can affect fatigue properties like patenting, plating, and diffusion. Other manufacturing issues, both up- and down- stream can influence fatigue. One key to superior fatigue performance lies in plated stock quality; other issues are more intuitively obvious and easily understood and so can be more quickly addressed. Tire design plays a role in real-world carcass-cable fatigue life, the strict domain of tire manufacturers.