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Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy ›› 2023, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (3): 274-281.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8484.2023.03.002

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Temperature rising state of the brake disc of electric bus on long-downhill considering kinetic energy recovery

LI Zitian1(), LI Bin1,*(), HUO Shenyang1, ZHANG Jing2, LÜ Xiaoxia3   

  1. 1. School of Automobile, Chang ‘an University, Xian 710064, China
    2. Baoji Geely Auto Parts Co. LTD, Baoji 721300, China
    3. Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. LTD, Beijing 100085, China
  • Received:2022-09-14 Revised:2023-04-25 Online:2023-06-30 Published:2023-06-29

Abstract:

The high brake-disc temperature-rise in long downhill conditions was investigated for pure electric buses with central drive to improve the safety of pure electric buses. The simulations and the real road tests were used to investigate the temperature correlation between the ventilated disc brakes and the brake calipers of a certain vehicle model. A thermodynamic coupling model of brake disc was established based on Ansys Workbench software, and the temperature fitting function between brake caliper and brake disc was fitted by Matlab based on the experimental data. The results show that the continuous braking gradient is about 3.99% by anti-drag braking, and the service braking involvement is required when the gradient is larger. Brake calipers and disc temperature rise correlation coefficients is up to 0.9. That means that brake caliper temperature is used to monitor the brake-disc thermal decay for safety warning. These results provide data support for the long-downhill braking safety for pure electric buses.

Key words: pure electric buses, brake kinetic energy recovery, long-downhill, temperature rise, finite element analysis

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