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COBEM 2019
25th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF THE BRAKE CALIPER AND ITS SUPPORTS
Submission Author:
Tobias Anderson Guimarães , MG
Co-Authors:
Tobias Anderson Guimarães, Wilber Silva Leonel Júnior
Presenter: Tobias Anderson Guimarães
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2019.COB2019-1142
Abstract
The major role of a brake system is to mitigate the vehicle kinetic energy and to transform this in thermal energy by the optimization of the dissipation energy. On this way, the brake systems components, such as, the disk, caliper and their supports should be designed to support the stress and strain produced by the forces during the braking. In this sense, the objective of this work is to study the structural integrity of brake system components by the Finite Element Method (FEM). Initially, the maximum torque has applied on the brake system was estimated by using the dynamical forces have calculated in the critical situation. Subsequently, a finite elements model of the brake disk, caliper and supports was created and simulated using the boundary conditions and the loads produced by the braking process. In order to define the optimal material distribution of the caliper, the Topological Optimization Technique was also applied to the finite elements model from brake system. The results proved that is possible to apply this design methodology in the brake system components to verify its structural integrity and to design the geometry of the caliper by using the topology optimization.
Keywords
brake system, caliper, Finite Element Analysis, Topology optimization
