Experimental Investigation on Squeal and Chatter Phenomena in Bicycle Disk Brakes (1st Report, Regeneration Experiments of Squeal and Chatter and Their Characteristics)

This paper deals experimentally with the squeal and chatter phenomena generated in mountain bike disk brakes. First, the authors performed the traveling test using actual bicycle on downhill road in a mountain. As the results, there are two kinds of frictional self-excited vibrations in the bicycle disk brakes called by squeal with frequency of 1 kHz and by chatter with frequency of 500 Hz. In order to regenerate the squeal and the chatter, a bench test apparatus by actual bicycle was set up and their characteristics were experimentally examined. By using the bench test apparatus, it was made clear that their frequencies were independent of temperature of pad and rotating speed of rotor, and the chatter was generated in a certain limited region of high temperature though the squeal occurred in arbitrary temperature region of pad.