Tire Technology conference programme now out

ERJ staff report (DS)

Dorking, UK -- Organisers of the Tire Technology Expo 2011 have published the preliminary conference programme. The event takes place in Cologne from 15 - 17 February 2011.

The programme includes a massive 16 sessions, in addition to the regular add-on courses: the 4-day Tire Mechanics Short Course from the University of Akron and the 2-day Tire Mechanics Short Course from Queen Mary College.

The sixteen sessions of the main conference are as follows:

• Putting the Wow! factor in the tyre industry
• Tyre manufacture: the challenge to be environmentally-friendly
• Achieving better environmental and safety for vehicles and tyres
• Steel, non-steel and hybrid tyre cords
• Synthetic and bio-polymers for tyres
• Carbon Black: adaptig to a new world
• Natural rubber: supply and technology
• Truck tyres
• Road and tyre research projects in Europe
• Rubber compounds - safe and sustainable
• National, regional and global tyre regulations
• Developments in physical testing of rubber compounds
• Can the virtual tyre model replace physical testing?
• Testing compounds - moving to better accuracy
• Novel applications for adaptive rubber
• Tyres in the extreme

A one-day pass costs euro 495; a two-day pass costs euro 830; a three-day pass costs euro 1120.

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Home page of TTE 2011 event from organisers

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