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Damping plays an important role in controlling brake squeal caused by the coupling between the rotor and the pads. Since most of the damping in the system (during brake squeal conditions) is coming from the pads, it becomes important to understand the relationship between the damping of the pad by itself in its free-free condition and that of the system in terms of braking pressure, temperature, and frequency. This relationship will help in understanding the effects of optimizing the damping of the pad, whether the damping comes from the friction material, backing layer, or add-on damping treatments. The purpose of this paper is to show that the modal strain energy method can be used to arrive at such a relationship.

This paper explores the use of geometry of the insulators in attenuating brake squeal. The authors present both simulation and experimental data at component level as well as system level - comparison of brake dynamometer test results of a brake system with and without the geometric tuning of the insulators. Also the authors show the effective usage of the geometry changes to tackle squeal frequencies that are outside of brake pad modal spectrum.