Design, Simulation and Topology Optimization of Rotor Disc
2022-26-1188
05/26/2022
- Event
- Content
- Brake systems are one of the most critical components of any mobile vehicle. They play a vital role in providing safety to the passengers, vehicle and surroundings. It works on basic principle of Pascals Law by applying forced frictional resistance to the rotating members of the vehicle to slow down the speed. Generally, cast iron is used as a primary material for the rotor in different applications. The current study involves the modelling of the Brake disc according to general specifications of All Terrain Vehicle and performing FEA Analysis on brake disc to study different results. The FEA analysis include the static structural to test the rigidity and ruggedness of disc, Steady and Transient Thermal Analysis to study the behavior of disc under varying thermal loads. It includes study of various parameters such as Von Mises Stress, Total Deformation, Thermal Gradient and Total Heat flux across the brake disc to evaluate the performance under extreme conditions. Different types of composite materials have been taken into consideration and the response to the thermal loads have been studied and looked into whether they can be used as a substitute to conventional metals. For structural analysis, von misses theory has been implemented for static conditions. Further topology optimization is performed to reduce the overall weight of disc without compromising the structural strength. Here, an attempt has been made to optimize the design by selecting best possible parameters of brake disc like Wall Thickness, Material Composition, Effective Diameter. Various iterations are performed of performing Analysis and after evaluating all the parameters, a best optimized design is finalized.
- Citation
- Ruparelia, R., Patel, A., and Baxi, N., "Design, Simulation and Topology Optimization of Rotor Disc," SAE Technical Paper 2022-26-1188, 2022, .