Determination of Noise Caused by Ventilated Brake Disc with Respect to the Rib Shape and Material Properties Using Taguchi Method

Abstract

Ventilated brake discs may have various configurations of ribs and can be manufactured from different materials. In order to improve the performance in extreme exploitation conditions, it is necessary that they heat up and wear as little as possible, and that they have good heat dissipation capacity and generate low noise. To achieve this, optimization of the influential parameters is required. In this study, the optimization and the analysis of the frequency value were made on the basis of the influential parameters, such as brake disc vane shape, density, Young’s modulus, and Poisson's coefficient. A numerical investigation was conducted using the ANSYS software package in the MODAL module. In order to better understand which parameter has the greatest influence on the noise formation, the Taguchi method was applied. By applying the Analysis of Variance – ANOVA, the influence of each parameter on frequency, expressed as a percentage, was determined. The obtained results show that the most influential parameter is the shape of the ribs (90.82%), followed by Young’s modulus (8.26%) and density (0.89%).