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Siemens SW Brake noise analysis Fact Sheet

Simcenter Engineering services help reduce brake squeal by combining simulation and testing to identify and eliminate dynamic instabilities in brake components. The process involves creating simulation models, correlating analyses, and validating countermeasures to improve brake performance and enhance driver safety. By employing complex eigenmode analysis and multi-body simulation, engineers can effectively address the noise issues that negatively impact product quality and brand image.

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Siemens SW Brake noise analysis Fact Sheet

Simcenter Engineering services help reduce brake squeal by combining simulation and testing to identify and eliminate dynamic instabilities in brake components. The process involves creating simulation models, correlating analyses, and validating countermeasures to improve brake performance and enhance driver safety. By employing complex eigenmode analysis and multi-body simulation, engineers can effectively address the noise issues that negatively impact product quality and brand image.

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SIEMENS DIGITAL INDUSTRIES SOFTWARE

Brake noise analysis


Increasing the driver’s sense of security by avoiding brake squeal with Simcenter Engineering
services

Benefits Summary
• Understand the conditions and parts that Simcenter™ Engineering services reduce the sound of squealing brakes. By
contribute most to the noise problem combining simulation and testing, dynamic instabilities in the brake compo-
nents that lead to strong, tonal noise can be eliminated.
• Create a simulation model for the
self-exciting oscillations that cause noise Brakes decelerate and stop the car by inducing friction between the lining and

• Improve brake simulation models by the disk. During the braking operation, this combined system can become

correlating analyses and updating dynamically unstable, potentially making the brakes squeal. This noise can be
loud and sharp. It strongly influences the driver’s feeling of safety, and gives the
• Implement and validate countermeasures impression of poor product quality that can negatively impact the brand image.
that eliminate brake squeal By combining test and simulation, engineers can analyze the complex modes
• Increase the driver’s feeling of safety that play a role in this phenomenon and propose countermeasures to eliminate
the annoying noise. Many brake manufacturers rely on experience when select-
ing the best option for a design. But when things go wrong in a test rig or in
vehicle tests, countless repeated prototype modifications might be required
before a complete solution is found. The noise only occurs under certain condi-
tions, and that can change when modifying the system. It gets even more
difficult when including operational variables in the analysis, such as pad

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Brake noise analysis SIMCENTER

thickness due to wear, ambient temperature,


humidity, driving style and brake history. On
top of that, the system’s dynamic behavior is
subject to the complex nonlinear theory of
self-exciting oscillations. Employing complex
eigenmode analysis using the finite element
method (FEM) and multibody analysis are two
distinct simulation methodologies that can
complement testing for efficiently finding
countermeasures to eliminate the noise.

A typical brake noise analysis project is


comprised of the following phases:
Acoustic field visualization. Assembled brake finite element
Experimental troubleshooting
model.
Simcenter Engineering experts conduct tests
on a dedicated bench so the problem can be assembly model produce a complex eigen-
controlled and repeated. They determine the mode that exactly matches the operational
squeal frequency, analyze structural dynamics deflection shape, which is responsible for the
of components during braking by laser squeal problem. The value can be verified and
measurements, investigate influencing factors eventually fine-tuned using correlation analy-
and visualize the acoustic field around the sis and updating.
brake using acoustic holography.
Multi-body simulation
Complex eigenvalue analysis As an alternative to complex eigenvalue analy-
Simcenter Engineering experts create individ- sis, Simcenter Engineering can use multi-body
ual component FEM models and calculate simulation analysis. This method simulates the
modes. They are correlated with test results mechanism in the time domain, including
and iteratively updated. Afterwards the engi- flexible components and realistic friction
neers merge all components into a full-brake models. New technologies even include acous-
assembly. Between pad and disk, an equiva- tic simulation.
lent complex stiffness is added. This makes the
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Implementation and validation of
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countermeasures
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Using all analysis results, Simcenter Engineering
Americas
experts can propose countermeasures that
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eliminate the noise, and help implement and
Europe
validate them throughout testing.
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Asia-Pacific
Implementation and validation of countermeasures. 001 800 03061910

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