An imprecise probability approach for squeal instability analysis based on evidence theory

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• 作者：Hui Lü ; ^a ; ^{lvhui588@126.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Wen-Bin Shangguan^a ; Dejie Yu^b
• 关键词：Brake squeal ; Instability ; Evidence theory ; Uncertainty ; Imprecise data
• 刊名：Journal of Sound and Vibration
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：20 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：387
• 期：Complete
• 页码：96-113
• 全文大小：1383 K

文摘

An imprecise probability approach based on evidence theory is proposed for squeal instability analysis of uncertain disc brakes in this paper. First, the squeal instability of the finite element (FE) model of a disc brake is investigated and its dominant unstable eigenvalue is detected by running two typical numerical simulations, i.e., complex eigenvalue analysis (CEA) and transient dynamical analysis. Next, the uncertainty mainly caused by contact and friction is taken into account and some key parameters of the brake are described as uncertain parameters. All these uncertain parameters are usually involved with imprecise data such as incomplete information and conflict information. Finally, a squeal instability analysis model considering imprecise uncertainty is established by integrating evidence theory, Taylor expansion, subinterval analysis and surrogate model. In the proposed analysis model, the uncertain parameters with imprecise data are treated as evidence variables, and the belief measure and plausibility measure are employed to evaluate system squeal instability. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated by numerical examples and some interesting observations and conclusions are summarized from the analyses and discussions. The proposed approach is generally limited to the squeal problems without too many investigated parameters. It can be considered as a potential method for squeal instability analysis, which will act as the first step to reduce squeal noise of uncertain brakes with imprecise information.