heat calculation of disc brake rotor

[DADA]

we have modified the disc of car and used the calliper of bike to reduce the overall weight. now i want to do heat calculations of modified disc to check whether it doesnt reach the temperature at which it may fail. can anyone hv suggestion for my probles???

[MCoach]

...*sigh*

Look. I can perform calculations and am pretty knowledgeable. However, what you are asking of us is unreasonable. You want to participate in this competition, act like an engineer.
I'll show you the path to go down, but it's your choice whether to half-ass it or not.

I would reference the Stoptech website's white papers for what do for kinematics. That will give you an idea of what your load transfer is under braking and from there can calculate what your energy transferred into the brakes will be (depending on velocity, think about why...). THEN, you can tell me whether your brakes will get hot enough to fail. Do some research, read some articles, read SAE papers, pick up a book before coming to us with a question like that. Inform yourself of what you are getting into. That question will also depend on your material that you are using. Are you using steel, carbon-ceramic, aluminum, a block of wood? You might want to also worry about the rest of the system that might fail first. What about the caliper and the brake fluid? Steel may melt in the thousands of degrees, but your fluid will boil at only several hundred.


Research, research, research...