Dimensionamento e validação de um sistema de freios aplicado a veículo Off Road do tipo BAJA

Abstract

Annually, the SAE (Society of Automobile Engineers) promotes Baja competitions with the aim of providing practical knowledge applications acquired in the classroom, increasing the students’ preparation for the job market. By participating in the Baja SAE program, the student becomes involved in the real case of development of an off road vehicle, from its conception through detailed design, construction, and testing. The manufactured prototype depends on different subsystems for its operation, including the brake, which is responsible for progressively reducing the speed of the moving vehicle, making it stop, or keeping it immobile if it is already stopped, and transmitting the force applied by the driver. To the brakes, generating the necessary friction for this deceleration. The project will follow the methodology adapted by Dal Forno (2021), divided into 4 (four) stages: preliminary design, informational design, conceptual design, and detailed design, which will allow the design, construction, and validation of a brake subsystem applied to the Baja SAE type prototypes. This work arises to develop knowledge management in the brake subsystem within the Bombaja UFSM team, in order to record and share it in a constructive way, enabling continuity in research and constant improvement of the project. The documented development of a brake system has become an important source of reference and consultation for extended projects that use this type of prototype, enabling its constant improvement.