Design optimization of passenger car front brake disc for improvement in thermal behavior, weight & Cost reduction.

  Prashant Patel,  M.A.Mohite

This work is presented with “Design modification & optimization in stress, improvement in thermal behavior, and weight & cost reduction of Disc brake rotor” which studies about on disc brake rotor by modeling & analysis of two different shapes brake disc. Two Different disc brake rotors with same outer diameter & inner mounting position of holes on wheel hub as like four wheeler. Analysis done on real model of disc brake rotor of four wheeler and disc brake Rotor of different shapes of slots of different vehicle’s in one Disc brake rotor. Therefore, it gives optimize stress, deformation, weight & cost reduction of the modified disc brake rotor & also good heat dissipation. Hopefully this project will help everyone to understand experimental verification of disc brake rotor and how disc brake works more efficiently, which can help to reduce the accident that may happen in each day. 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 Multiphasic. In the present work, different ventilated disc brake rotor configurations were analyzed to enhance the heat transfer rate and obtain the uniform temperature distribution in the rotor. CFD code used in this work was validated at using experimental results obtained by conducting experiments on a test rig. The experimental analysis was performed to calculate the mass flow rate and heat dissipation through the rotor. Further, different types of rotor configurations viz. straight radial vane (SRV), pillar type vanes, were considered for the analysis.

Keywords- Two different brake disc (existing and modified), optimize slots, heat dissipation, CAE and experimental verification, cost & weight reduction.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1702181
Page Number(s) - 1079-1086
Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 2 | May 2017
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Prashant Patel,  M.A.Mohite,   "Design optimization of passenger car front brake disc for improvement in thermal behavior, weight & Cost reduction.", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 2, pp.1079-1086, May 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1702181.pdf