Recurrence analysis and phase space reconstruction of irregular vibration in friction brakes: Signatures of chaos in steady sliding

Irregular friction brake vibration data have been collected with sampling rates of up to 200 kHz. The measured time series have been subjected to recurrence analysis and phase space reconstruction. The recurrence analysis indicates that irregular vibration states of friction brakes are strongly dominated by intermittency phenomena. Phase space reconstruction suggests that this intermittency is dominated by low-dimensional irregular deterministic dynamics rather than by high-dimensional stochastic processes.