Journal Article
Thermal Effects in Friction Materials - A Comprehensive Strategy for Modeling and Simulation
2012-09-17
2012-01-1793
Shorter product cycles, a high awareness for comfort properties on the customer side and an increasingly strict legislation with respect to environmental issues make the development of friction materials more and more challenging. In contrast to many other engineering tasks, nearly no software tools are available to the material developer, which systematically support the development process with simulations. This work focuses on the time-dependent three-dimensional heat distribution inside a pad material and shows, how heterogeneous material mixtures can be modeled, such that a prediction of non-stationary temperature fields becomes possible. In this context, a strategy is suggested, how the thermal interaction between pad and disk and the aspects of energy dissipation and heat partitioning can be described appropriately.