Single-Source Brake Development – from Scratch through to Production Support
The brakes are one of a vehicle's fundamental safety systems, they must guarantee that the vehicle will stop safely in any driving situation. Fulfillment of their functionality in terms of reproducible and uniform response behaviour is therefore the primary task during development.
However, regulatory influences, technical innovations and last but not least the electrification of the powertrain pose a multitude of new challenges for the designers of vehicle brakes. Weather resistance under changed operating conditions, particle emissions and all types of brake noise are the points on which attention is focused here. This increases development costs on the one hand, while at the same time putting customers under enormous time and cost pressure.
In all, there are four disciplines that cover the different aspects of the overall development process:- Development
- Simulation
- Testing
- Interfaces
EDAG's Center of Competence Brake (CoC Brake) bundles all the competences required under one roof, i.e. from basic design and system design to system integration and series development. The fact that all these development steps are in one hand ensures smooth and rapid processes.
In this white paper, Dr. Dominic Jekel, Head of the Center of Competence Brake at EDAG, presents the wide-ranging applications for numerical simulation methods, bench and vehicle testing, and how these are continually being developed. By skilfully combining these methods, it is also possible to resolve the conflict between growing cost pressure and the tight time-to-market constraints.
This is why you should register now and download our white paper "Requirements of Disc Brakes in Passenger Cars and their Efficient Validation in the Development Process" free of charge.