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Optimization of Brake Pedal for FSAE Vehicle

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Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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The brake pedal is used to actuate the brakes of any normal car. It faces a very high load during intensive and repetitive braking. A brake pedal is required to be durable as well as have a low weight. The study is focused toward designing an optimized brake pedal having good durability and a considerable factor of safety along with the lowest weight. First, the brake pedal of Aluminum (7075 T6) is designed using a 3D modeling software (SolidWorks) and then the Finite Element Analysis is carried out to find the stresses induced when a load of 40 kg, i.e., 392 N acts. Once the results are determined for the solid pedal the pedal is then further optimized by removal of material in less stressed zones and analyzed appropriately.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, MGM Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, Aurangabad, India

    Kaustubh Babrekar, Saurabh Bairagi, Jatin Parajiya & Nitin G. Phafat

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  1. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    G. S. V. L. Narasimham

  2. National Institute of Technology Warangal, Warangal, Telangana, India

    A. Veeresh Babu

  3. Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, Ibrahimpatnam, Telangana, India

    S. Sreenatha Reddy

  4. Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, Ibrahimpatnam, Telangana, India

    Rajagopal Dhanasekaran

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Babrekar, K., Bairagi, S., Parajiya, J., Phafat, N.G. (2020). Optimization of Brake Pedal for FSAE Vehicle. In: Narasimham, G., Babu, A., Reddy, S., Dhanasekaran, R. (eds) Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1124-0_50

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