Thermo-mechanical Contact Analysis on Disk Brakes by Using Simplex Algorithm

  • Cho, C. (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Sun, Chan-Woong (Graduate Students, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Kim, Ju-Yong (Graduate Students, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)
  • Published : 2002.10.21

Abstract

A numerical procedure for analyzing thermo-elastic contact applied to an automotive disk brake and calculating subsurface stress distribution has been developed. The proposed procedure takes the advantage of the simplex algorithm to save computing time. Flamant's solution and Boussinesq's solution are adopted as Green function in analysis. Comparing the numerical results with the exact solutions has proved the validity of this procedure.

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