Study of Brake Pad Shim Modification to Improve Stability Against High Frequency Squeal Noise by Finite Element Analysis

This research studying on brake pad shim design with 4 configurations to improve the brake squeal noise phenomenon for high frequency noise in the range of 4-16 kHz. Various shims were designed with different configurations to increase structural damping and avoid instabilities in a brake system, which arise from friction drawing the vibration modes to coalesce between brake disc and brake pads. Then, the suspect brake module was tested in the laboratory using a dynamometer machine to confirm brake frequency noise parameters and conditions. The numerical models including brake disc, brake pad and brake pad shim were created using finite elements software and the unstable modes analysed for negative damping and positive real part values with the Complex Eigenvalue Analysis (CEA) technique. The simulation result showed that the instability of the brake system comes from mode coupling of the brake disc and brake pads in the out-of-plane modes (11ND) and (2 ND), respectively. The brake pads shim design1, design2 and design3 are component which goes in between the calipers and brake pads, were able to avoid high frequency brake squeal but make the noise move toward the direction of the lower frequency. The brake pad shim design4 is the good structure modification to avoid high frequency brake squeal and low frequency