EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF ORGANIC BRAKE PAD

Mechanical Engineering

The main requirement of a brake pad is to slow down the car speed by transforming the kinetic energy into heat through friction work at the interface between brake pad and rotor disc. Blames always go to brake pads when a brake-related problem arises. The standard methods to evaluate the performance under sliding condition required the huge infrastructure, manpower and time. Therefore it is necessary to test the brake pad material on reduced scale type tester. In this paper, organic pad material is investigated using pin in disc tribometer. Pin on disc testing the material in simulate condition which is similar to real life conditions. In this paper load, sliding velocity and sliding distance selected as factor. Sliding test is carried at three level of factor and wear frictional force main interest of research. The result concluded that load and sliding distance is main factor which effect on response. As the load and sliding distance increase wear rate of organic pad increased.

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