An Analysis of the Coupling Between Temperature and Thermal Stress of Disc Brakes Based on Finite Element

Abstract

Disc brakes have been more widely used in recent years due to its many merits such as fast heat absorption and dissipation, and resistance to water fade. Since it’s difficult to describe the failure of brakes under complex working conditions in only a few times of thermal-structural coupling simulations, this paper analyzed the coupling between temperature and thermal stress of disc brakes under multiple continuous braking conditions. At first, a 3D model of bus disc brake was built in ABAQUS, and its braking motion and dynamic parameters, heat flux density, convective heat dissipation coefficient, heat flux distribution coefficient, and other thermodynamic parameters were calculated. Then, the numerical simulation of the temperature field of disc brake and the coupling analysis of thermal stress under different braking conditions were completed. At last, experimental results gave the analysis results of the temperature distribution characteristics of brake disc surface, and the comparison and demonstration of the finite element analysis were conducted.