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Honeycomb Tires

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Mi Zhou
ECE 444V
Dr. John R. LaCourse
2016-5-5
Honeycomb tire
Introduction
Getting a flat tire is never convenient. When we find our car’s tire is broke in the street, it is hard for us to do something for it. We may call some towing companies to towing our car to some place safe. But it need cost a lot of money. Why the tire can flat, because inside of the tire is air. We using a lot of air inside of the tire, so we can hold our car. The hub will not touch the ground. So if we want to have a tire that will never flat, we need find a way to replace the air.
Modern tire is Honeycomb tire is kind of tire that mimic the honeycomb shape. an ingenious honeycomb design by a Wisconsin engineering company may be the key to a new airless tire that could keep military vehicles running faster and longer after an attack. When engineers began working on tire designs, they settled on one of the most resilient natural structures – the six-sided …show more content…

Millions of unsafe tires could be on the road right now. When the owner felt a vibration and pulled over to check the tire, he saw nothing. Because the defective portion was inside the tire wall and not visible to the naked eye.
Even the tire is safe, but it may also be broken by the ground. In military, when the truck try to sent the stuff to the front, if the tire broke, they may lost the battle. So the enemy will try to broken the tire of the Resource truck. And it is very easy to do it, just broke the tire. Using a small nail that is hard enough to broken the tire. So the battle may lose because of a small nail. So a tire that is strong enough to hold the truck and hard to be broken is necessary. Even the tire is broken, the tire need to be strong enough for the truck to go to a safe place.
Not just the resource truck. In the battlefield, we need truck or car to sent our solider into battleground. And we need sent the wounded into hospital. If the tire is broken, it may cause a huge

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