Adapting On-vehicle Brake Drag Testing to a Bench Dynamometer

Krough, Bradley; Dyar, Lorne; Bray, Patrick G.

doi:10.4271/2011-01-2376

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“…A large number of factors influence the drag torque [2,6,10]. Some disc brakes use springs that connect the pads with the carrier and/or the caliper to retract the pads to reduce the drag torque.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Experimental Study of Forced Vibration Influence on Disc Brake Drag Torque in Heavy Commercial Road Vehicles

Fyhr¹,

Hjelm²,

Wahlström³

2022

Tribol. Ind.

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Drag torque in a disc brake is the residual torque when the brake is not activated. This torque can adversely influence the total energy consumption, life of the brake components, and level of airborne wear particles from vehicles. Drag torque is of special interest for long haul trucking since it could have an effect of the total energy consumption. Drag torque performance of a disc brake is usually evaluated with conventional inertia dynamometers. Vibrations induced by the wheel can help to retract the pads from the disc and decrease the drag torque. It is hard to study this phenomenon with conventional inertia dynamometers since there is usually no system to induce a forced vibration on the brake. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to investigate the effect of vibrations on the drag torque for a commercial vehicle disc brake with a novel test setup. This is done by comparing test run with and without pads, forced vibrations, and pad retraction springs. The results indicate that the forced vibrations strongly affect the level of measured drag torque. In addition, the introduction of a retraction spring can reduce drag torque with more than 50% when vibrations are induced.

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An Experimental Study of Forced Vibration Influence on Disc Brake Drag Torque in Heavy Commercial Road Vehicles

Fyhr¹,

Hjelm²,

Wahlström³

2022

Tribol. Ind.

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“…In [26,29], two different brake dynamometers are employed with different aims (detecting electric vehicle braking power, detecting brake drag), no similarities with the test rig proposed in this paper can be found.…”

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confidence: 99%