The brake friction material has seen a vast development in the last decades. These
developments were mainly to increase the brake effectiveness and reduce the …

Brake friction materials play an important role in automobiles to reduce speed and to stop
the vehicles. Advances in friction materials were updated to ensure effective performances …

The crucial significance of brake friction materials lies in ensuring automobile safety and
performance. This drives the ongoing development of these materials to meet rigorous …

The increasing interest in the emission from the disc brake system poses new challenges for
the characterization approaches used to investigate the particles emitted from the wearing …

Chemical inertness and hence limited wettability of carbon fibers (CF) with a selected matrix
is the major problem for exploiting its full potential as reinforcement. Oxidation of CF with …

It was aimed to explore the potential of abrasives in nanometer size in friction materials
(FMs). Hence six FMs were developed using micro and nano-abrasives of three types viz …

The composite materials are fabricated by combining various ingredients to make higher
material properties as required by various industries. The primary classification of …

An interaction of polymers with biological fillers can optimize their mechanical properties or it
can lead to a possibility to substitute commonly used both biological as well as synthetic …

Natural minerals play a key role in the burgeoning field of mineral-reinforced polymers,
providing an important element in strengthening and toughening the properties of composite …

Abstract Polyether-ether-ketone (PEEK) and polyimide (PI) are two kinds of engineering
polymer materials widely used as roller bearing cages and rings under extreme environment …