The failure of tyres during service is an
important consideration in design and development of tyres.
Indeed, 95% of the failures in steel-belted radial tyres
occur at the interfaces between steel belts and rubber
matrix. The aim of this project is to understand the
fracture response due to presence of the so-called belt
cracks at the interface between rubber matrix and steel
belts in radial tyres under Mode-I and Mode-III loading
conditions by conducting a combined experimental-numerical
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