A pin-on-disc simulation of airborne wear particles from disc brakes

• A novel test method was used to study the concentration and size distribution of airborne wearparticles from disc brake materials. A pin-on-disc tribometer equipped with particle countinginstruments was used as test equipment. Material from four different non-asbestos organic(NAO) pads and four different low metallic (LM) pads were tested against material from greycast iron rotors. The results indicate that the low metallic pads cause more wear to the rotormaterial than the NAO pads, resulting in higher concentrations of airborne wear particles.Although there are differences in the measured particle concentrations, similar size distributionswere obtained. Independent of pad material, the characteristic particle number distributions ofairborne brake wear particles have maxima around 100, 280, 350, and 550 nm.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Tribologi (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Tribology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

wear

airborne particles

disc brake

pin-on-disc

Mechanical engineering

Maskinteknik

NATURAL SCIENCES

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)