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They affect the performance and safety of a vehicle based on how they change when the tire performs in variable thermal conditions, interacts with various kinds of road surfaces, and accumulates mileage over time. To analyze and understand such properties of viscoelastic materials, destructive tests like dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) are used, which make the tire unusable after the test; these are usually carried out on specimens cut from the zone of interest. The development of an innovative testing methodology connected to a hardware device called VESevo allows the characterization of the viscoelastic properties of tire compounds belonging to tread or other parts in a fast and nondestructive way. This new device provides valuable information about the evolution of the tire\u2019s viscoelastic properties, allowing it to monitor them throughout the whole lifecycle. In the paper, an overview of the possible sensitivities that can be investigated thanks to the VESevo is provided: The tread viscoelasticity was characterized and monitored for several tire tread compounds, over tire mileage, over tread thermal curing cycles, and as an index of the tread quality and uniformity in production. Preliminary results were collected and are presented. In the final paragraph, further recent applications developed from the tire field, which are not directly related, are reported.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24041136","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,9]],"date-time":"2024-02-09T03:53:46Z","timestamp":1707450826000},"page":"1136","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Analysis of the Scenarios of Use of an Innovative Technology for the Fast and Nondestructive Characterization of Viscoelastic Materials in the Tires Field"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8257-5534","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Flavio","family":"Farroni","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Naples, Italy"},{"name":"VESevo Smart Technologies SRL, 80125 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6039-3895","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francesco","family":"Timpone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Naples, Italy"},{"name":"VESevo Smart Technologies SRL, 80125 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8821-2790","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrea","family":"Genovese","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Naples, Italy"},{"name":"VESevo Smart Technologies SRL, 80125 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"233","DOI":"10.2346\/1.2167224","article-title":"On Viscoelasticity and Standing Waves in Tires","volume":"4","author":"Padovan","year":"1976","journal-title":"Tire Sci. 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