Method for determining a force at the hub of a wheel of a vehicle whilst traveling and wheel suitable for allowing said method to be carried out

A method for determining the force at the hub of a wheel of a vehicle whilst traveling, said wheel comprising a rim and at least one deformation sensor directly associated with said rim in at least one predetermined position and arranged according to at least one predetermined orientation, the method comprising the steps of: detecting at least one deformation component of said rim during travel through said at least one deformation sensor; applying to said at least one deformation component, during travel, a correlation parameter, characteristic of said rim, between the force at the hub and the relative deformation of said rim to determine at least one force component at the hub correlated with said at least one deformation component of said rim. The determining of the correlation parameter preferably takes place through experimental tests that comprise the steps of providing a sample wheel having a rim substantially the same as that of said wheel and determining at least one correlation coefficient between at least one force component acting upon said sample wheel at the hub along at least one predetermined direction and at least one respective deformation component of the rim of said wheel.