Design and Optimization of Drum Brake System for Heavy Vehicles

This paper is based on the project “Power Assisted Gear Shifting Mechanism for Automobiles”. This is a design, fabrication and implementation project. The project provides solution for skidding privilege in heavy vehicles. Majority of the road accidents takes place due to brake failure of the vehicles causing havoc to the safety of the security of the occupants and road users. It is imperative that an effective system of the braking is required to stop the vehicle within reasonable distance. The failure or malfunctioning of Brake causes damages to life and property. In the traditional or conventional braking system, two brakes linings are employed, in this Project work, Four Brake linings are embedded in the brake drum to uniformly distribute the torque to the drum apart from reducing wear and tear of the linings strategy is carried out. Further, automatic clutch can be incorporated with this unit to make it fully automatic