There is no lack of numerical approaches to make brake squeal computable but up to now the complexity of the phenomenon has prevented massive computations in this field due to very long computing times. As long as one set of parameters for one brake requires many hours of computing time, it is practically impossible to study geometrical modifications to get a configuration which does not exhibit squealing under all typical operating conditions.
Brake squeal is widely understood as friction induced dynamic instability. Therefore, two principal approaches are available: Transient analysis and complex eigenvalue analysis. Due to high computational effort for transient analyses obviously stability is more effectively studied by a complex mode analysis.
The analysis can be split up in following steps:

• A linear static analysis with contact and friction under brake pressure and rotation. There, sliding between disk and brake pad can be prescribed by a rigid body motion to determine the sliding velocity.
• A real vibration mode analysis using the previously calculated contact status. This requires a linear model for the contact status with frozen contact status.
• A complex mode analysis with additional frictional and rotational terms. Gyroscopic and stiffness terms are taken into account which consider the disk as elastic structure in an inertial reference system. Additional stiffness and damping terms are derived from the frictional contact state perviously calculated in the contact analysis.

As usual instabilities are detected by a complex mode analysis if the real part of the complex eigenvalue becomes positiveor the effective damping ratio becomes negative.
A complex mode analysis is performed in one computing run for the full range of interesting rotational speeds. By this sweep all relevant points of instability are obtained for one set of brake parameters. Successive computing runs are then used to study parameter modifications in order to establish a stability map for all important influencing effects.