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Link Group, Inc. (LINK), parent to Link Engineering Company, Link Industries and Tescor, consists of businesses that offer customized solutions, with a focus on delivering high value to each of their customers. Offerings consist of the design and manufacture of customized, high precision test, research, simulation, quality control and thermal solution equipment; comprehensive test services; and in the case of Link Industries, customized, high precision cutting tools. 


LINK's corporate headquarters are in Plymouth, Michigan (US), with manufacturing and design facilities, laboratory and vehicle test operations, and support teams around the world.

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EB2022-TSD-013

Oral

Brembo S.p.A.: Dr.-Ing. Claudio Benini, Ing. Cristian Malmassari; Link Engineering Co: Ing. Frederico Fortunati

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Pushed by the new technologies that are hitting the automotive market, OEMs and Suppliers are increasingly dealing with the need to enhance product lifetime efficiency reducing development times and costs. Consequently, simulation is gaining more and more relevance and extensive vehicle testing campaign are leaving room to focused and optimized laboratory and dyno tests. In this scenario the ability to faithfully reproduce vehicle behaviour in a wide range of conditions is a key factor for systems development. Speaking about dyno testing a lot of significant improvements have already been achieved either in matter of procedures and controls. A step forward is represented by the expansion to include also lateral and longitudinal dynamics, integrating standard dyno operations with vehicle wheel dynamic loads application: as well-known their influence may not be negligible when disc deformation or pad position play a relevant role for certain NVH issues. A fully integrated dynamic system with actuators for longitudinal and lateral loads has been developed and installed on a Brembo dynamic bench in the frame of a cooperation with Link Engineering. Such device, targeted to be light and flexible in its setup and tuning, confirmed itself to be representative of vehicle actual behaviour and reliable for deeper investigations of NVH phenomena, as shown in some preliminary validation results.

EuroBrake 2022

Brake testing & development: future trends and perspectives

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Dynamic wheel loads application on dyno bench and their effects on brake system test, EB2022-TSD-013, EuroBrake 2022

EB2020-STP-064

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Mr. Carlos Agudelo, Link Engineering, UNITED STATES

Mr. Marco Zessinger, Link Europe GmbH, GERMANY

Mr. David Antanaitis, General Motors, UNITED STATES

Mr. Michael Peperhowe, dSPACE GmbH, GERMANY


Current standards like the SAE J2789 have provisions for adjusting the brake inertia for regenerative braking systems. However, a comprehensive method to implement the correct brake blending during inertia dynamometer testing in real-time remains elusive. With Hybrid and Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) propulsion systems on the rise, the need to develop friction couples and braking systems is ever increasing. To better understand new phenomena related to low-temperature burnish, corrosion, brake balance, NVH, and brake emissions, the automotive industry needs to rely on laboratory testing using inertia dynamometers. The main innovation on the approach presented is the ability to have an actual (ego) brake corner in the test environment to provide real-time torque and temperature response during testing,


This oral-only presentation elaborates on critical aspects of HiL simulation for BEV brake blending. What makes this work unique is the focus on the development of working software and working hardware using software ECUs for the battery controller, particular communication protocols with high-speed scenario simulation, and commercially available hardware (HiL and standards dynamometer platforms), and application to real-life cases and driving cycles. The work presents the software and hardware modules; the algorithms to control the ego brake corner; the communication packets; events, and scenario triggers; and the automation of a test cycle – with practical examples. These developments can support early system evaluation, simulation of static and dynamic scenarios, and expand to include multiple ego brake corners.

EuroBrake 2021

BCE

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Simulation of Regenerative Brake Blending Using Hardware-in-the-Loop on an Inertia Dynamometer, EB2020-STP-064, EuroBrake 2021

EB2020-STP-063

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Mr. Carlos Agudelo, Link Engineering, UNITED STATES


This presentation provides an overview of recent revisions and current projects for new standards, recommended practices, and information reports from SAE. The presentation incorporates status from several committees working on passenger cars, light trucks, and commercial vehicles, including joint developments with other Standards Development Organizations (SDO) like ISO, JSAE, and VDA.

EuroBrake 2021

ISO

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SAE Standards Update, EB2020-STP-063, EuroBrake 2021
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