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  2. Blowout (tire) - Wikipedia

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    Automobile tire damaged after an impact. A blowout (also known as a burst) is a rapid, explosive loss of inflation pressure of a pneumatic tire.. The primary cause for a blowout is encountering an object that cuts or tears the structural components of the tire to the point where the structure is incapable of containing the compressed air, with the escaping air adding to further tear through ...

  3. Transportation safety in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Toggle Overall statistics subsection. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Tire blowouts: Blow out/flat tire: 165: 0.32

  4. Flat tire - Wikipedia

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    The most common cause of a flat tire is the puncturing of the tire by a sharp object, such as a nail or pin, letting the air escape. Depending on the size of the blowout, the tire may deflate slowly or rapidly. [1] A flat tire in a busy district in Lagos, Nigeria. A vehicle with a flat tire can cause local delays in traffic.

  5. Tire fire - Wikipedia

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    Tire fires are events that involve the combustion of large quantities of tires, usually waste tires, typically in locations where they are stored, dumped, or processed. They exist in two forms: as fast-burning events, leading to almost immediate loss of control, and as slow-burning pyrolysis which can continue for over a decade.

  6. Contact patch - Wikipedia

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    Colorized tire footprint pressure distribution. The contact patch is the portion of a vehicle's tire that is in actual contact with the road surface.It is commonly used in the discussion of pneumatic (i.e. pressurized) tires, where the term is used strictly to describe the portion of the tire's tread that touches the road surface.

  7. Tire uniformity - Wikipedia

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    Tire uniformity refers to the dynamic mechanical properties of pneumatic tires as strictly defined by a set of measurement standards and test conditions accepted by global tire and car makers. These standards include the parameters of radial force variation , lateral force variation , conicity, ply steer, radial run-out , lateral run-out , and ...

  8. Category:Tire manufacturer templates - Wikipedia

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    [[Category:Tire manufacturer templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Tire manufacturer templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.

  9. Tire manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Tire factories start with bulk raw materials such as synthetic rubber (60% -70% of total rubber in the tire industry [2] [3]), carbon black, and chemicals and produce numerous specialized components that are assembled and cured. The tire is an assembly of numerous components that are built up on a drum and then cured in a press under heat and ...