Optimizing design parameters of caliper disc brake system using hybrid approach-KHGWO

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunny K. George ◽  
Shajan Kuriakose
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Brake System ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Disc Brake ◽  
Optimizing Design

Brake Squeal: A Control Strategy Using Shunted Piezoelectric Pads

2020 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaqoub Abdullah ◽  
Amr Baz
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Mechanical Energy ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Brake System ◽  
Electrical Network ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Disc Brake ◽  
Electrical Networks ◽  
Brake Squeal

Abstract Brake squeal has been a challenging issue to overcome for the automotive sector. The phenomenon often underpins more serious mechanical issues leading to poor user satisfaction, compromised safety, and a negative impact on the market. Automotive manufacturers are highly motivated to solve the squealing problem to prevent sudden failure of the brake system, which can be catastrophic. This article provides an approach to mitigate the squealing of brakes through the application of piezoelectric patches shunted by appropriately tuned electrical networks. The designated piezoelectric patches used with the brake pads can provide a unique characteristic, namely, being able to convert the mechanical energy of squealing brakes into electrical energy. This energy can be dispersed throughout an electrical network, fostering greater stability and damping risk factors of the brake system. This technique is envisioned as empowering the disc brake systems to perform across a range of operating parameters in a robust fashion, without experiencing brake squealing. The model proposed in this article is a multifield finite element model that includes two degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) disc brake system model as well as 2DOFs for the shunted piezoelectric network to independently control the brake modes of oscillation and hence to enable the mitigation of the squealing threshold. The brake system establishes the stability limits as a function of the design parameters of the shunted piezoelectric network. The effectiveness of the developed system is also provided in a numerical examples that shows the effectiveness of the shunted piezoelectric networks in controlling brake squeal phenomenon. The method proposed in this article can be applied to distributed disc brakes as an extension of the current work.

Control of Brake Squeal Using Shunted Piezoelectric Pads

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaqoub Abdullah ◽  
Amr Baz
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Mechanical Energy ◽  
Natural Extension ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Brake System ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Disc Brake ◽  
Brake Squeal ◽  
Electric Networks ◽  
The Stability

Abstract Brake squeal phenomenon poses serious challenges to the automotive industry due to its technical complexity and the pressing need for mitigating its undesirable effects. More importantly, brake squeal causes significant customer dissatisfaction and adversely affects the subjective quality of the vehicles. These effects have substantial economic impact on the automotive industry. Furthermore, it is essential to properly treat the brake squeal problems in order to avoid unexpected catastrophic failure of the brake system. In this paper, it is proposed to mitigate the brake squeal problems by providing the brake pads with piezoelectric patches which are shunted by properly tuned electric networks. The shunted piezoelectric pads offer a unique ability to convert the mechanical energy induced by the brake squeal into electrical energy which can be dissipated into the network in order to enhance the damping and stability characteristics of the brake system. Accordingly, it is envisioned that the proposed approach would enable the disc brake systems to operate over broad ranges of operating parameters without experiencing the adverse effects of brake squeal. The proposed system is modeled by a simple two Degree-Of-Freedom (DOF) disc brake model. The structural DOF are integrated with the constitutive model of the shunted piezoelectric network in order to predict the threshold of brake squeal. The stability limits of the proposed brake system are established as a function of the design parameters of the shunted piezoelectric network. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system in expanding the operating range of the brake system without experiencing squeal problems. Application of the proposed system to a distributed disc brake system model is a natural extension of the present work.

scholarly journals Three-dimensional CFD modeling of thermal behavior of a disc brake and pad for an automobile

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-549
Author(s):  
Haydar Kepekci ◽  
Ergin Kosa ◽  
Cüneyt Ezgi ◽  
Ahmet Cihan
Keyword(s):  
Cast Iron ◽  
Friction Coefficient ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Gray Cast Iron ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Brake System ◽  
Gray Cast ◽  
Cfd Modeling ◽  
Disc Brake ◽  
Disc Material

Abstract The brake system of an automobile is composed of disc brake and pad which are co-working components in braking and accelerating. In the braking period, due to friction between the surface of the disc and pad, the thermal heat is generated. It should be avoided to reach elevated temperatures in disc and pad. It is focused on different disc materials that are gray cast iron and carbon ceramics, whereas pad is made up of a composite material. In this study, the CFD model of the brake system is analyzed to get a realistic approach in the amount of transferred heat. The amount of produced heat can be affected by some parameters such as velocity and friction coefficient. The results show that surface temperature for carbon-ceramic disc material can change between 290 and 650 K according to the friction coefficient and velocity in transient mode. Also, if the disc material gray cast iron is selected, it can change between 295 and 500 K. It is claimed that the amount of dissipated heat depends on the different heat transfer coefficient of gray cast iron and carbon ceramics.

Influences of Initial DTV on Thermomechnical Coupling in Disc Brake System

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejian Meng ◽  
Ziyi Wang ◽  
Lijun Zhang ◽  
Zhuoping Yu
Keyword(s):  
Brake System ◽  
Disc Brake

scholarly journals AGV Brake System Simulation

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Varecha ◽  
Robert Kohar ◽  
Frantisek Brumercik
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Brake System ◽  
Disc Brake ◽  
Hydraulic Control ◽  
Stopping Distance ◽  
Braking Force ◽  
Braking Process ◽  
The Mathematical Model

Abstract The article is focused on braking simulation of automated guided vehicle (AGV). The brake system is used with a disc brake and with hydraulic control. In the first step, the formula necessary for braking force at the start of braking is derived. The stopping distance is 1.5 meters. Subsequently, a mathematical model of braking is created into which the formula of the necessary braking force is applied. The mathematical model represents a motion equation that is solved in the software Matlab by an approximation method. Next a simulation is created using Matlab software and the data of simulation are displayed in the graph. The transport speed of the vehicle is 1 〖m.s〗^(-1) and the weight of the vehicle is 6000 kg including load. The aim of this article is to determine the braking time of the device depending from the input data entered, which represent the initial conditions of the braking process.

scholarly journals An Optimizing Design Point Program for Selection of a Gas Turbine Cycle

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. K. Conkol ◽  
T. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Ground Vehicle ◽  
Design Point ◽  
Optimizing Design ◽  
Volume Characteristics ◽  
Gas Turbine Cycle

As vehicles evolve through the concept phase, a wide variety of engines are usually considered. For long-life vehicles such as heavy armored tracked vehicles, gas turbines have been favored because of their weight and volume characteristics at high hp levels (1500 to 2000 hp). Many existing gas turbine engines, however, are undesirable for vehicular use because their original design philosophy was aircraft oriented. In a ground vehicle, mass flow and expense are only two areas in which these engines differ greatly. Because the designer generally is not given the freedom to design an engine from scratch, he must evaluate modifications of the basic Brayton cycle. In this study, various cycles are evaluated by using a design point program in order to optimize design parameters and to recommend a cycle for heavy vehicular use.

No Breaks for Noise

1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (08) ◽  
pp. 62-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Sharke
Keyword(s):  
Brake System ◽  
Disc Brake ◽  
Brake Pedal ◽  
Passenger Compartment ◽  
Engine Noise ◽  
Master Cylinder ◽  
Noise And Vibration ◽  
Brake Pads ◽  
Mechanical Components ◽  
To Come

This article highlights the fact that engineers who design and test anti-lock brake systems (ABS) have been trying to come up with ways to minimize the noise and vibration that drivers hear and feel when they stomp on the brake pedals. The ABS engineers want drivers to do during a panic stop is to let their feet off the brakes. According to the engineers, braking should be the concern, because the less time the driver worries about stopping the car, the more time there is to concentrate on steering it. The mechanical components in both systems are functionally identical, consisting of a brake pedal, a master cylinder and booster, hydraulic lines and fluid, wheel calipers, brake pads, and rotors. In fact, unless the system is actuated by hard braking, ABS acts just like an ordinary disc brake system. Engine noise would only mask the ABS noise reaching the binaural head, which sits inside the passenger compartment where a driver would normally be.

scholarly journals Squeal Frequency of a Railway Disc Brake Evaluation by FE Analyses

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Cascetta ◽  
F. Caputo ◽  
A. De Luca
Keyword(s):  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Numerical Approach ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Brake System ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Disc Brake ◽  
Complex Eigenvalues ◽  
The Stability

This paper deals with the development of a numerical model, based on the Finite Element (FE) theory for the prediction of the squeal frequency of a railway disc brake. The analytical background has been discussed and presented, as well as the most efficient methods for evaluating the system stability; the attention has been paid particularly to the complex eigenvalues method, which has been adopted within this paper to investigate the railway disc brake system. Numerical results have been compared with measurements from experimental tests in order to validate the proposed numerical approach. At the end of this work, a sensitivity analysis, aimed at understanding the effects of some physical parameters influencing the stability of the brake system and the squeal propensity, has been carried out.

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