Design and Fabrication of Twin Integrated Hydraulic Master Cylinder

Mechanical Engineering

Making the things in “Nano” dimensions is the prime goal of today’s era. Presuming the same as the base we are writing this paper on the design of a compact sized and light weight “Twin Integrated Hydraulic Master Cylinder”. In vehicles each subsystem must comply all safety requisites. In automobile braking system the master cylinder is a controlling unit from which the braking action takes place, so we have focused on making the component more efficient and safer. Its feature of having four outlet ports and also complying the rule of having two independent hydraulic brake circuits in such a compact size makes it superior over the Tandem Master Cylinders present in the market. Also, its integrated body makes it superior over the use of an assembly of two different slave master cylinders along with splitters for the braking purpose in Formula type racing cars as well as commercial cars. It has provided with an extra mounting at the rear end in order to mount it vertically to reduce the space requirement of mounting assembly. Also, the same rear mounting can be use for an oscillating cylinder type arrangement with the help of ball joints to avoid the pedal force to break into its components leading towards an effective braking. Structural analysis has been performed on HYPERMESH. The experimental testing of master cylinder has been performed on Formula Student Vehicle and performance parameter such as stopping distance is recorded.

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