Designing the Brake System-Step by Step

This paper will discuss the fundamentals of brake system design as they relate to industrial, agricultural and off-highway vehicles; providing a guide for the designer who finds himself with this engineering responsibility. However, it is also well to be aware that brake systems and system performance have come under surveillance and regulation in the last few years by International, Federal, State, Provincial and local Governments and their agencies, and that the designer consider this along with the data we are to discuss in this paper.