WEIGHT REDUCTION IN BRAKE DISC USING TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION

Swapnil Thigale, Chinmay Shah

Abstract: Abstract -To design a lighter brake disc than the existing models used in general two wheelers is the main objective of this paper. The newly optimized brake disc is compared with existing BAJAJ Discover125M disc. Topology optimization for weight reduction was performed by using Altair INSPIRE 9.5 software and the newly optimized disc was analyzed in ANSYS16.0.Using this method a new light-weight brake disc is designed. The results of the design shows that the weight of a new brake disc is 26.68% less as compared to the existing brake disc and it has similar performance as the existing disc.

Keywords: Weight Reduction, Topology optimization, INSPIRE and brake disc

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0510037