Sensitivity analysis of brake squeal tendency to substructures’ modal parameters

Sensitivity analysis methods are explored to determine the dominant modal parameters of substructures of a brake system for brake squeal suppression analysis. The related formulae of sensitivities of the positive real part of the eigenvalue of squeal mode (RES) to substructures’ modal parameters (SMP) are derived. The sensitivity analysis method can determine the dominant modal parameters influencing the squeal occurrence in a regular way, and the dominant modal parameters will be set to be the target of structural modification attempted to eliminate the squeal mode. Sensitivity analysis of a typical squealing disc brake is performed. The analysis results show that a modified rotor or a modified bracket can be used to eliminate the squealing and that the latter is taken in practice and verified experimentally.