STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF DISC BRAKE

Failure of brakes especially in two-wheelers have been one of the major causes for many accidents. The forced stresses acting on the disc rotor due to forced braking damages the disc and eventually it breaks. This shows that no proper material has been chosen while analysing the disc at different conditions. Thus, the main aim of this project is to mitigate the failure by using a material which will overcome the negatives of all the current materials used in a disc brake. Static analysis is done on the disc rotor to validate the ductility and a thermal analysis is done to determine the temperature coefficient acting on the disc. Three existing materials that is Stainless Steel, Cast Iron and Carbon-Carbon Composite is being compared with Vanadium Steel to check for the maximum deformation, stress and temperature. The disc brake is modelled using Creo Parametric 3.0 and the analysis is done in ANSYS Workbench 15.0. By finishing the analysis, it is proved that Vanadium Steel has better strength and temperature distribution factors than the other three materials.