Finite Element (FE) Analysis Of Drum Brake System

Efariani, Abdul Rahim (2015) Finite Element (FE) Analysis Of Drum Brake System. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In Malaysia, statistic had shown that motorcycles are the transportation that widely used on the road. Affordable price and efficient transport in term of fuel consumption and less in the traffic jam problem are the reason motorcycles was mostly be chosen compared to other vehicles. However, with a large number of motorcycles on the road, it may create some problem such as noise and air pollutions. One of the noise pollutions is contributed by brakes system. Brake squeal noise produced by transportation is an annoying sound that can affect the comfort feeling of people surrounding. Thus, this project aims to tackle such an issue by introducing brake insulator into the brake assembly. For this project, will focus on motorcycle brake and the type of system is a drum brake system. There are two stages have been followed to achieve the objective, which are: i) develop the finite element model of the rear drum brake system that based on the real system components, ii) run the stability analysis with and without insulator to analyze the effectiveness of the insulator in squeal suppression. The stability analysis performed using ABAQUS software through complex eigenvalue analysis (CEA), the positive real part of the (CEA) indicate unstable frequency (the propensity of squeal occurrence). Different types of material for the insulators have been proposed to reduce the squeal generation and it was found that the method is efficient to suppress the squeal occurred but it does not fully eliminate the squeal generated.

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