Impact of Brake Pad Structure on Temperature and Stress Fields of Brake Disc

Table 3

Information on finite element mesh.

	Number of nodes	Number of elements	Element type	Element abbreviation
Brake disc	28917	24192	8-Node thermal coupling hexahedral element with reduced integration	C3D8RT
A1	1560	879
A2	1872	1053
A3	2183	1228
Brake pads
B1, B2	1590	987
B3, B4	2275	1487