The Braking system is an important aspect of the vehicle. Disc brake system comprises of disk placed between two pads. Hydraulic system helps these pads to come in contact with the disk to slow down the rotation of wheel and finally to stop the vehicle. The disk brakes are of two types a solid type and vented, vented disk have fins to allow air to pass in to it . The praper aims to study and analyzation of the parts disk and pad with changing parameters like material and area of contact of pad with disk. A vented disk brake is designed and results are studied. The CAD models are built in CATIA and a finite element model is built in HYPERMESH software. Analysis is done using RADIOSS software.
Index Terms: non-vented Disk Brake, Hyper Mesh, RADIOSS,
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As the brakes abate the auto, they change its active vitality into warm vitality, resulting in intense heating of the brake disk. If the disks overheat, the brake pads stop working and, in a worst-case scenario, can melt [1].
1.1 Design methodology Figure 1. Design Flow Chart A disc brake consists of such a big amount of materials disk secured to the wheel hub and a stationary housing known as caliper. The caliper is connected to some stationary half of the vehicle just like the shaft soliding or the stub shaft as is cast in 2 components every part containing a piston. In between every piston and therefore the disc there's a friction pad control in position by retentive pins, spring plates etc. The passages also are connected to a different one for injury every cylinder contains rubber-sealing ring between the cylinder and piston[4]. Figure 2. Disc Brake Pad Assembly to Wheel. The main components of the disk brake are:
The Brake Pads
The Caliper which contains the piston
The Rotor which is mounted to the
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Velocity 60kmph Velocity 100kmph Grid Temperatures in 0C Grid Temperatures in 0C
Steel 1079 433
Aluminum 508 204
Aluminum based Metal Matrix Composite 435 174
3.5 For velocity 60kmph Figure12: Grid Temperature of Al disc for 60 kmph Figure13: Grid Temperature of AlMMC disc for 60 kmph Figure14: Grid Temperature of Steel disc for 60 kmph
3.5.1 For velocity 100kmph Figure15: Grid Temperature of Al disc for 100 kmph
Figure16: Grid Temperature of AlMMC disc for 100 kmph
Figure17: Grid Temperature of Steel disc for 100 kmph 3.5.2 Graphs:
The following graphs shows the comparative study
For 60 kmph: Figure18: Grid Temperature along Radial Thickness for 60kmph
For 100 kmph: Figure19: Grid Temperature along Radial Thickness for 100 kmph
4. CONCLUSION
The present study can provide a useful design and improve the brake performance of disc brake using three different materials Steel, Aluminum, Aluminum based metal matrix composite. The design was analyzed considering the effects of thermal expansion and pressure load separately. This is done to study the amount of deformation due to pressure loading individually. These results are used to study the increase in
For the other material ASTM A216 Gr WCB same pressure of 16 Mpa is applied and the stress developed is approximately as similar to the connecting rod made with material of cast iron. Figure no. 9 indicates the maximum and minimum stress developed in connecting rod at small & big end. The equivalent stress maximum and minimum values are 71.347 MPa and 4.4955e-5 MPa respectively.
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braking system slow, so the riders don’t go into shock, but fast enough to be fully stopped before