Short course/CPD
Disc Brake Design and Analysis
Course date: 04 Jul 2012 - 06 Jul 2012
Course overview
Disc brake assemblies are subjected to high mechanical and thermal loading. This course offers in-depth study of existing designs, and best methods and practices in analysing existing and generating new designs. In addition to lectures, the course includes hands-on sessions for the delegates to become more familiar with the modelling and experimental procedures. Delivered by academic and industrialist specialists who are actively undertaking research and development activities, the course offers most relevant up-to-date material. By covering a variety of disc and calipers designs, modelling techniques - both analytical and numerical (FE and CFD), and experimental procedures, the course offers complete insight into the loading, modelling, design and optimisation of a brake assembly and its components.
Location
Cranfield University is located at the very heart of the UK – within the innovation triangle between London and the cities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Our central location provides easy access from the M1, excellent main line rail service as well as proximity to key international airports. Set in rolling countryside, Cranfield offers a rich, rural landscape complemented by thriving towns and picturesque villages.
- Road: We are just 10 minutes from Junctions 13 & 14 of the M1 motorway. There is free parking on campus.
- Rail: Milton Keynes or Bedford
- Air: London Luton (22 miles), Heathrow (50 miles) or Birmingham (70 miles).
Course fee:
£990
Accommodation fee:
£267
Accommodation is on a full-board basis from the evening before the course commences until the afternoon of the last day. The course fee may include a course dinner for all participants. Refreshments and lunch during the day are included. Full details will be circulated with the joining instructions. The accommodation fee includes all other meals. Details of arrangements will be in the delegate information pack.
How to register
Further information
For more information on this course or booking details please contact:
Academic Operations Unit
T: + 44 (0) 1234 754192
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
Course description
Who Should Attend?
The course is aimed at practising engineers, researchers and managers working in automotive and other sectors. On completion of the course, delegates will gain comprehensive understanding of the braking technology, necessary tools, best methods and practices in designing, developing and researching disc brakes.
Course Structure and Duration
This three-day course requires a suitable level of previous knowledge in at least some of the relevant areas of brake technology. This experience could have been gained through industrial or academic (research) work. For those delegates without such experience, attending a course such as the Braking of Road Vehicles course, at the University of Bradford, would be an appropriate alternative.
Main Themes
- Brake designs - discs and calipers
- Mechanical and thermal loading
- Heat generation and partition
- Temperatures, thermal stresses and deflections, FE modelling
- Heat dissipation, experimental investigations and CFD modelling
- Brake sizing - thermal effects
- Interface pressure distributions, caliper stresses and deflections - introduction to and demonstration of FE modelling, digital image correlation and other experimental methods
- Caliper and disc design optimisation
- Case studies
Course Director
Dr Marko Tirovic
T: +44 (0) 1234 758264
E: m.tirovic@cranfield.ac.uk
