Course description
Disc brake assemblies are subjected to high mechanical and thermal loading. You will cover an in-depth overview of existing designs, and best methods and practices in analysing existing and generating new designs.
Delivered by academic and industrialist specialists who are actively undertaking research and development activities, this course offers the most relevant and up-to-date material. By covering a variety of disc and calipers designs, modelling techniques - both analytical and numerical (finite element and computational fluid dynamics) - and experimental procedures, this course provides complete insight into the loading, modelling, design and optimisation of a brake assembly and its components.
In addition to lectures, you will participate in hands-on sessions to become more familiar with the modelling and experimental procedures.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Practising engineers, researchers and managers working in automotive and other sectors.
This course requires a suitable level of previous knowledge in at least some of the relevant areas of brake technology. This experience could have been gained through industrial or academic (research) work. For those delegates without such experience, attending a course such as the Braking of Road Vehicles course at the University of Bradford, would provide an appropriate foundation.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
On completion of the course, you will gain comprehensive understanding of the braking technology, necessary tools, best methods and practices in designing, developing and researching disc brakes.
Training Course Content
Core content
- Brake Designs - Discs and Calipers
- Mechanical and Thermal Loading
- Heat Generation and Partition
- Temperatures, Thermal Stresses and Deflections, FE Modelling
- Heat Dissipation, Experimental Investigations and CFD Modelling
- Brake Sizing - Thermal effects
- Interface Pressure Distributions, Caliper Stresses and Deflections - Introduction to and Demonstration of FE modelling, Digital Image Correlation and other experimental methods
- Caliper and Disc Design Optimisation
- Case studies.
Course delivery details
Course structure
Lectures giving fundamental approach, methods and technologies. These are supported by worked examples, case studies as well as design software demonstrations and laboratory sessions.
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