DESIGN OF MAGNETO-RHEOLOGICAL BRAKE FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATION

The Conventional Hydraulic Brakes (CHB) system is being used to provide the required braking torque to stop a vehicle. This system has number of drawbacks such as delayed response time to stop a vehicle, bulky size, brake pad wear etc. With the use of magneto-rheological (MR) brake, different limitations of CHB can be eliminated. MR brake is one of the possibilities to replace a CHB, which is the pure electronically controlled actuator and has a potential to further reduce the braking time. There lies a potential for investigation of MR brake for automotive application. Thus. in this paper, the efforts have been taken to design the MR brake for E-bicycle.