Designing a Composite Material for Use in Brake Applications Conferences

abstract

• Traditionally, automotive brake rotors are made with cast iron. Besides having economical advantage, cast iron rotor provides many disadvantages due to its weight, such as reduction in fuel efficiency, increase in green house gas emission, and increase in noise, vibration and hardness. With the development of commercial aluminum composites, composite brake rotors are now manufactured. However, the present commercial composite materials are not specifically made for brake application and there are drawbacks. A major drawback is their poor elevated temperature property. In this paper, the unique properties offered by an aluminum composite for brake application is addressed, and an approach to compensate its properties for brake application is highlighted.

authors

• Lo, Jason

publication date

• January 1, 2005

has subject area

• 0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural) (FoR)
• 0912 Materials Engineering (FoR)
• Materials (Science Metrix)
• Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (Science Metrix)

published in

• Materials Science Forum  Journal

presented at event

• 5th Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing  Conference

keywords

• Materials Science
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
• Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering
• Science & Technology
• Technology
• composite brake rotors
• hybrid composites
• metal matrix composites

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.475-479.1109

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 0-87849-960-1

start page

• 1109

end page

• 1112

volume

• 475-479

issue

• II