Sliding Bifurcations and Chaos in a Braking System

In this paper, non-smooth bifurcations and chaotic dynamics are investigated for a braking system. A three-degree -of-freedom model is considered to capture the complicated nonlinear characteristics, in particular, non-smooth bifurcations in the braking system. The stick-slip transition is analyzed for the braking system. From the results of numerical simulation, it is observed that there also exist the grazing-sliding bifurcation and stick-slip chaos in the braking system.Copyright © 2007 by ASME