Thermal analysis of both ventilated and full disc brake rotors with frictional heat generation
Date issued
2014
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Publisher
University of West Bohemia
Abstract
In automotive engineering, the safety aspect has been considered as a number one priority in development of a new
vehicle. Each single system has been studied and developed in order to meet safety requirements. Instead of having
air bags, good suspension systems, good handling and safe cornering, one of the most critical systems in a vehicle
is the brake system. The objective of this work is to investigate and analyze the temperature distribution of rotor
disc during braking operation using ANSYS Multiphysics. The work uses the finite element analysis techniques
to predict the temperature distribution on the full and ventilated brake discs and to identify the critical temperature
of the rotor. The analysis also gives us the heat flux distribution for the two discs.
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Subject(s)
automobilový průmysl, termická analýza, koeficient přenosu tepla, proudění, brzdové kotouče
Citation
Applied and Computational Mechanics. 2014, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 5-24.