Evaluation of the Brazilian brake pads performance / Avaliação do desempenho de pastilhas automobilisticas nacionais

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

Automotive brake systems are mainly friction based. The world tendency is toward using disc brakes instead of drum brakes, which are usually installed in the rear wheels. The increase in the performance of automotive vehicles and the changes in the dynamic characteristics have conducted to more efficient brake systems. The expansion of the brake pads market has impacted the quality of the products. Low quality products have been found, specially were no control exists. The actual test procedures to evaluate the quality of rnction materials are compIex and most of them require a fuII scale inertial dynamometer. Those machines are very expensive and most of the Brazilian research and quality centers do not have them. This work aimed to deveIop a procedure to characterize the performance of brake pads and analyzing the main factors of influence. A Iow cost non-inertial dynamometer, called D.E.A. - Fixture to text sampIes of friction material, was used. It is instalIed in the Department of Mechanical Design - FEM of the State University of Campinas, in Brazil. An experimental orthogonal design L9 was used to take the factor of influences in account. They are identified and the main factors are: contact pressure, disc speed, temperature and pad manufacturer. The influences were evaluated in two leveI of pad wearing. The results show that the procedure can be used to evaluate the quality of the rnction material for brake pads, in a fast and not expensive way

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freios materiais abrasivos brakes friction materials

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