Abstract. The clutch pressure plate was easy to produce high temperature and axial thermal deformation under the extreme operation conditions, which results in clutch ablation, torque transmission capacity /slip faults. In this paper, a new channel clutch pressure plate was proposed that set a radial cooling channels and axial cooling through holes on the traditional pressure plates. Based on the finite element modeling and analysis of the new pressure plate, the influence of the thermal parameters (such as ambient temperature, convective heat transfer coefficient of the friction surface and the non-friction surfaces) and structural parameters (such as the width and height of the radial cooling channels, the diameter of the axial cooling through holes, etc.) on the temperature field and deformation field of new pressure plate were obtained. The results show that the effect of the thermal parameters on the performance of the new pressure plate was not obvious, but the influence of the structural parameters on the thermal deformation of the new pressure plate was significant. Compared to the performance of the original pressure plate, the performance of the new scheme has been improved significantly.
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