Aspects Regarding the Disc Brake's Thermal Stress Simulation by Using Infrared Thermography

Abstract:

The paper proposes a new simulation method of a brake disc thermal stress resistance, for different temperatures, by interactive processing of images obtained by thermography. Temperature evaluation for different working regimes can be made by recording and processing thermograms of a brake disc heated inside the laboratory by an external heating source. Taken pictures along the temperature variation, from the ambient value to a value close to real one obtained on the usual experiments, are processed using image analyse software. This way can be simulated different working regimes (temperature, humidity etc.) without the need of experimental determination on the road or on a test bench.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 463-464)
• Pages: 1197-1201
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.463-464.1197
• Online since: February 2012
• Authors: Catalin Spulber, Ştefan Voloacă
• Keywords: Disc Brake, Driverless, Modeling, Simulation, Thermal Stress, Thermography

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