Abstract A brake is the most critical safety and important performance component in vehicles. Brake pads were formerly manufactured mainly using asbestos as friction material (30-70%). Thermally stable temperature for up to 500°C. Asbestos strong, flexible & available at a reasonable cost but carcinogenic nature. This causes serious health problems like lung cancer hence it got banned India...

In this paper, finite element elastic contact analysis of a functionally graded (FG) hollow brake disk in contact with pad, subjected to rotation, contact pressure and frictional heat is presented. The material properties vary through the thickness according to a power-law characterised by a grading index, n. The material property is purely steel at the core part and gradually moves and appr...

Due to the extreme health concerns associated with asbestos-based brake linings, researchers are looking at using ecologically friendly bio-based biomaterials as reinforcing agents in composite materials used make pad linings. The goal of this study is see whether sea shell (SS) powder production asbestos-free lining feasible. powders were combined necessary fillers lining. compositions varied ...

Contact is the principal way load is transferred to a body. The study of stresses and deformations arising due to contact interaction of solid bodies is thus of paramount importance in many engineering applications. In this work, problems involving contact interactions are investigated using finite element modeling. In the first part, a new augmented Lagrangian multiplier method is implemented ...