Studying of The Thermal Nature of

Different Disc Brakes Available In Market

Akash Srivastava (2013eme05)

Abhishek Shukla (2013eme04)
Arif Ayub (2013eme13)
Arvind Rathore (2013eme14)

Objective
To study the thermal aspects and design of
different companies disc brakes.
To study thermal efficiency of different
companies disc brakes.
To study wear resistant of disc brakes.
To suggest alternate design of disc brake by
above mentioned study.

Disc Brake System

A disc brake is a type of brake that uses callipers to squeeze pairs
of pads against a disc in order to create friction that retards the rotation
of a shaft, such as a vehicle axle, either to reduce its rotational speed or
to hold it stationary.
Disc brakes offer several advantages over drum brakes, including better
stopping performance (disc cooled readily), easier to control (not selfapplying), less prone to brake fade, and quicker recovery from
immersion, which largely contributed to their popularity.

History of Disc Brake

Development of disc brakes began in
England in the 1890s.
The first calliper-type automobile disc
brake was patented by Frederick William
Lanchester in his Birmingham factory in
1902 and used successfully on Lanchester
cars.
The American Crosley Hot Shot is often
given credit for the first production disc
brakes. For six months in 1950, Crosley
built a car with these brakes, then returned
to drum brakes.

History of Disc Brake

Chrysler developed a unique braking system, offered from 1949
to 1953 instead of the disc with calliper squeezing on it, this
system used twin expanding discs that rubbed against the inner
surface of a cast-iron brake drum, which doubled as the brake
housing.
Four-wheel disc brake system was built by Auto Specialties
Manufacturing Company (Ausco) of St. Joseph, Michigan, under
patents of inventor H.L. Lambert, and was first tested on a
1939 Plymouth.
The first mass production use of the modern disc brake was in
1955, on the Citron DS, which featured calliper-type front disc
brakes among its many innovations.

Market Survey
Leading Manufacturers of Disc Brake
Mando India (ANAND): Major supplier of General
Motors and Mahindra. (Joint adventure of Mando,
Korea and ANAND, India).
Automotive Axles Limited: Major supplier of
Daimler, Ashok Leyland, Mahindra, BEML etc.
Masu Brakes
Rane Brake Lining Limited
Meritor HVS India Limited: Major Supplier of
Sonalika, Daimler, Mahindra Navistar, Force, Volvo
etc.

Literature Survey
In recent decades, disc brakes have increasingly become more
popular and gradually found their ways in many different types
of vehicles, ranging from light motorcycles to heavy road trucks
or even trains. They offer several advantages over drum brakes,
including better stopping performance (disc cooled readily),
easier to control (not self-applying), less prone to brake fade, and
quicker recovery from immersion, which largely contributed to
their popularity.
However, after long repetitive braking, brake fade could still set
in and compromise the performance of a disc brake due to the
change of friction characteristics caused by temperature rise and
overheating of brake components.

Literature Survey cont.

Overheated components could further lead to more problems such
as thermal cracks, plastic deformation, brake fluid vaporization,
and premature wear, and the life span of a disc brake could be
shortened as a result. Therefore the interactions of several physical
phenome, to accurately predict the temperature rise in a disc brake
system is of eminent importance in the early design stage. Yet, the
prediction of disc brake performance is highly complicated.
First, disc braking is a very dynamic and highly
transient phenomenon in which extremely large
temperature gradients can be generated at the
vicinity of disc/ pad interface in a fraction of a second
during a high-g deceleration and result in excessive
thermal stresses, a phenomenon termed as thermal
shock.

Literature Survey cont.

Thermal shock can give rise to surface cracks and plastic
deformation on the disc, making disc surfaces uneven. As
a consequence, the heat dissipation area at the disc-pad
interface is largely reduced and becomes non-uniform.
Frictional heating also produces thermal deformation and
elastic contact which, in turn, largely affect the contact
pressure and temperature on sliding interface. These
phenomena are termed thermomechanical coupling or
thermomechanical effects, and are one of the major
causes of creating hot spots on the sliding interface.

Course of Action
In Current Semester the milestones which are set
by us describe below To study the research paper on disc brake and
to draw the historical revolution of it.
To demonstrate the major thermal aspects of
disc brake.
To analyse different disc brake available in
market and study on it.

Course of Action cont.

In the Upcoming Semester the milestones which are
set by us describe below To design and analyze thermal aspects of disk
brake on ANSYS of different companies.
To conduct experiment on wear aspects and Brake
Horse Power.
Make the report on the basis of analysis and
experimental results.
To suggest an alternate design of disc brake.

Importance
To provide a brief review on the historical
revolution of disc brakes over the years.
Studying and analysing the disc brakes of
various automobiles available in the market
will help to provide an alternative for frictional
heat losses and temperature rise in the vicinity
of the disc and pad (brake squeal).

Importance cont.
Even though disc breaks are very
effective in shortening the stoppingdistance
of
heavy
loaded
vehicles,90% of heavy truck buyers
today still choose tried-and-true
drum
brakes,
according
to
manufacturers due to cost effective
reasons. Thus making the study of
such problems very much requisite.

Tentative Budget

INR 15000

Thank You