Evangelos Koliolios

Evangelos Koliolios is a final year PhD student at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) working in the soft matter group under the supervision of Prof. James Busfield, funded by Sumitomo Rubber Industries. He has an MEng degree in mechanical engineering with first class honours from QMUL. The main subject of his PhD thesis involves characterizing smear wear properties and understanding their effect on tire tread performance.

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Presentation

The novel approach to deconvolute wear rate into different components

This paper explores the idea of deconvoluting the measured wear rate of a tire tread compound into different components such as abrasive wear and smear wear with the ultimate goal of elucidating tire tread wear phenomena. A custom-built surface abrasion machine was used to investigate the wear behavior of tire tread compounds made from either synthetic polyisoprene rubber or styrene-butadiene rubber, reinforced with either carbon black or silica. The findings of this research will be discussed in the contexts of compound design and optimization, wear testing improvements and wear modeling.