Brake system in automobile

What?? (introduction)

Brake is a device used for slowing, stopping & controlling the vehicle.
Braking operation based on kinetic energy of vehicle is to converting into heat, which
dissipated into atmosphere.
While driving the vehicle, torque of the engine produces the tractive effort due to
periphery of driving vehicle.
When the brakes are applied it produces negative tractive effort on wheel.
While, this help to slow down a vehicle

Operation

use hydraulics - a system of fluid-filled pipes that can multiply force and transmit it
easily from one place to another.
Hydraulic brakes use the concept of Pascals law.
Liquids (oil) are used in hydraulic systems because liquids are incompressible.
Brake fluid is special oil that has specific properties. It is designed to withstand cold
temperatures without thickening as well as very high temperatures without boiling

1.Your foot pushes on the brake pedal.

2. As the pedal moves down, it pushes a class 2 lever (a kind of simple machine),
increasing your pushing force.
3. The lever pushes a piston (blue) into a narrow cylinder filled with hydraulic brake fluid
(red). As the piston moves into the cylinder, it squeezes hydraulic fluid out of the end
(like a bicycle pump squeezes out air).
4. The brake fluid squirts down a long, thin pipe until it reaches another cylinder at the
wheel, which is much wider.
5. When the fluid enters the cylinder, it pushes the piston in the wider cylinder (blue)
with greatly increased force.
6. The piston pushes the brake pad (green) toward the brake disc (gray).
7. When the brake pad touches the brake disc, friction between the two generates heat
(red cloud).
8. The friction slows down the outer wheel and tire, stopping the car.
Drum brake

mechanism that slows and stops a car by fiction, by pressing brake shoes against a
drum.
Drum brakes consist of a brake drum attached to the wheel, a wheel cylinder, brake
shoes, and brake return springs. Hydraulic pressure from the master cylinder causes

the wheel cylinder to press the brake shoes against the brake drum. This creates
friction between the shoes and drum to slow or stop your car.

Disc brake
mechanism that slows and stops a car by friction, by pressing a disk against the
wheel axel.
Disc brakes consist of a disc brake rotor - which is attached to the wheel - and a
caliper, which holds the disc brake pads. Hydraulic pressure from the master
cylinder causes the caliper piston to clamp the disc brake rotor between the disc
brake pads. This creates friction between the pads and rotor, causing your car to
slow down or stop
Better heat resistance, a greater ability to recover after becoming wet, and the ability
to apply proportionate force based on pressure applied to the brake pedal are key
considerations
Disk brakes last longer and are more effective when wet than drum brakes.

Parking brake

to keep the vehicle stationary.

Known as secondary braking system.
Emergency brakes are independent of the service brakes,
Not powered by hydraulics
Parking brakes use cables connected to rear brake system to mechanically apply
the brakes

Abs

Helps prevent brakes from locking.

The ABS (Anti-lock Brake System) monitors the speed of each wheel to detect
locking.
When it detects sudden braking, it will release braking pressure for a moment and
then provide optimum braking pressure to each wheel.
preventing the wheels from locking up
avoiding uncontrolled skidding.

Operation

1.Your foot pushes on the brake pedal.

2. as pedal pushers it will increased your pushing force.

use hydraulics - a system of fluid-filled pipes that can

multiply force and transmit it easily from one place to
another.
Liquids (oil) are used in hydraulic systems because liquids
are incompressible.
oil that has specific properties. It is designed to withstand
cold temperatures without thickening as well as very high
temperatures without boiling

3. The lever pushes a piston (blue) into a narrow cylinder filled with
hydraulic brake fluid (red). As the piston moves into the cylinder.
4. The brake fluid will push another cylinder at the wheel, which is
much wider.
5. When the fluid enters the cylinder, it pushes the piston in the wider
cylinder (blue) with greatly increased force.- due to pascal
6. The piston pushes the brake pad (green) toward the brake disc
(gray).
7. When the brake pad touches the brake disc, friction between the
two generates heat (red cloud).- brake aplied

Drum brake

consist of a brake drum attached to the wheel, a wheel

cylinder, brake shoes
Hydraulic pressure from the master cylinder causes the
wheel cylinder to press the brake shoes against the brake
drum. This creates friction between the shoes and drum to
slow or stop your car.
Lacking in design-tend to overheating in excess use - do
not effective in wet condition

Disc brake
mechanism that slows and stops a car by friction, by
pressing a disk against the wheel axel.
Disc brakes consist of a disc brake, caliper n disc rotor.
Hydraulic pressure from the master cylinder causes the
caliper piston to clamp the disc brake rotor between the
disc brake pads. This creates friction between the pads
and rotor, causing your car to slow down or stop
Better heat resistance,
a greater ability to recover after becoming wet
Disk brakes last longer and are more effective when wet
than drum brakes.