DESIGN, ANALYSIS AND CHARACTERISATION OF PERIPHERAL DISC BRAKE SYSTEM FOR MOTOR CYCLE FRONT WHEEL

Mechanical Engineering

In current days speed and torque requirement of automobiles is increasing day by day. As we know, not only speed and torque is a requirement of the automobile designers but also the braking and comfort without skidding of vehicle is also a primitive parameter. The interest of the project is to avoid accidents and noise free braking with less chances of failure. A capable braking system plays an essential role when vehicle has to run at superior speeds. The conventional disc brake is not so much efficient to bring the vehicle at stop within a shorter distance. The Perimeter brake design arrangement is a very efficient resolution for different vehicles to overcome the above deficiencies. An approach to resolve the variance of the design space without disturbing the design of the wheel rim, tangential brake constructions is recommended. These are known as perimeter disc brake. In the current design perimeter disc design is carried out for Pulsar 150 cc bike for front wheel. Experimental investigation of the same disc is carried out by developing laboratory experimental setup which will give the stopping time as output for conventional and peripheral disc brake system. From the analysis is found that the stresses and temperature induced in the perimeter brake system are much less as compared to the conventional disc brake system. From the experimentation it is clear that the time required to stop the vehicle is much less with perimeter disc with the same efforts which were required to stop the wheel with conventional braking system.

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