Abstract—In the recent years the needs for heavy duty brakes have been increasing. Since the performance of a braking system has direct influence on the safety of an automobile, an accurate design of brake drum is very important at present. The Brake Drum of TATA INDICA car is working well under certain load conditions. The required size of the break drum to be used in newly introduced TATA NANO car, the adoptability of the brake drum is tested under different load conditions with the help of Finite element analysis. The analysis is carried out using a FEM package, ANSYS 10. The results shown that the size of the brake drum required for NANO car is smaller than the size that is being used in INDICA car with lesser brake load than the later one.

Index Terms—Hoop stress, Longitudinal stress, Von miss stress, Speed, Pressure.

Cite: P Venkataramana, "Design of a Brake Drum Using Finite Element Method," International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 101-105, April 2013.