Abstract
Recently, ceramic matrix composites are considered for a high performance brake disk in automobile industry as an alternative of the conventional cast iron disk mainly due to excellent thermo-mechanical properties as well as high strength to weight ratio. Generally, since the thermo-mechanical properties of fiber-reinforced ceramics are anisotropic and non-homogeneous, the effective properties are not easy to include them in computer analyses. In this paper, simulation procedures based on homogenization of 3-D weaved fiber reinforced ceramics are presented to evaluate automobile disk brake performance. The simulation results include thermo-mechanical behavior of CMC disk brake as well as homogenized thermal and mechanical properties of CMC.
