INDUSTRY|mechanical engineering · TRANSPORT|land transport|land transport
- aerbhonn Tagairt Faomhadh an téarma seo mar chuid de Thionscadal Lex
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- Luftschlauch | Pneu | luftreifen | Reifen | Laufdecke
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- rubber tire | tire | tyre | rubber tyre
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- Sainmhíniú a continuous band that encircles the rim of a wheel and forms a tread that rolls on either a road, a prepared track, or the ground Tagairt "tire", Encyclopædia Britannica on line, http://www.britannica.com/technology/tire#ref117797 [12.1.2016]
- Nóta Free-moving vehicles such as automobiles, trucks, buses, bicycles, and airplanes need more friction to turn, climb, accelerate, and brake, so these vehicles use rubber tires, which provide both high friction and some cushioning ability. Rubber tires are of two types:1. solid, or cushion, tires1, in which the rubber portion functions to carry the load, absorb shocks, and resist cutting and abrasion;2. pneumatic tires2, in which the load is carried and the shocks are absorbed mainly by the compressed air that fills the tire. Pneumatic tires are now used for almost all free-moving vehicles because of their greater cushioning ability and other advantages. Solid rubber tires are now used only on industrial and farm carts and on military vehicles, applications where tires are liable to be cut or pierced.1 2IATE:14264722<<; IATE:3567669