THERMAL ANALYSIS OF A SIMPLIFIED BRAKE MODEL
Published in GÉP 2024/1
https://doi.org/10.70750/GEP.2024.1.4
Bolló Betti
egyetemi docens, Miskolci Egyetem Energetikai és Vegyipari Gépészeti Intézet
Sarka Ferenc
egyetemi docens, Miskolci Egyetem Gép- és Terméktervezési Intézet
Voith Katalin
tudományos főmunkatárs, Miskolci Egyetem Energetikai és Vegyipari Gépészeti Intézet
ABSTRACT
Braking system is one of the important safety components of a railway vehicle. Brake components slow the train by using friction between the train wheels and the brake block. The efficiency of the braking system is strongly dependent on the quality of the material of the components, especially the brake blocks. In the present paper, we have carried out optical microscope investigations of a brake block. On the other hand, numerical simulation was used to analyse the frictional heat distribution in the brake block using the Ansys software package. In the initial phase of the research, it was found that the software is suitable for calculating the frictional heat and for modelling heat transfer and heat conduction.
