Abstract
The development of a Virtual Brake Testing concept is presented in the paper, showing how a Virtual Disc Brake Prototype may be subject to the virtual testing for performance and reliability evaluation. For this purpose, a large experience accumulated throughout many years of testing of various vehicle brakes by means of a couple of full scale inertia dynamometers was gathered in an appropriate knowledge base. It was used in this project to enable (i) to create the virtual test schedule, (ii) to model the braking cycle influencing factors, and (iii) to model factors expressing brake performance and reliability for application within an advanced computer simulation.