Benjamin Oelze

Dr Oelze has worked for Continental for 17 years and is currently responsible for test method developments in the field of tire wear. In this function, he is a member of the ETRTO work group which is developing a tire abrasion rate test for regulatory purposes. He is additionally an ETRTO expert in the related UNECE GRBP Task Force on Tyre Abrasion (TF TA).

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Presentation

Evaluation of tire road wear particles under real conditions

In the joint research project OLRAP between TU Braunschweig (TUBS) and Continental Reifen Deutschland (Continental), funded by MWK Niedersachsen, a study to measure and analyze tire road wear particles under real conditions was carried out. The overall objective was to develop a process that can quantify tire wear particles under various conditions (like driving style) during their genesis. For this purpose, a test vehicle was equipped with various measuring devices, including for example commercially available particle sensors (PM1/2.5/10/100). Furthermore, tire road wear material was collected for laboratory analysis making use of a marker technology.