• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.95-100
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• 2011

The brake disc materials for railway vehicle have been mainly used cast-iron. The brake disc and pad should be light, resist to a thermal crack and absorb enough friction energy. In order to satisfy this requirement, aluminum alloy brake disc for railway vehicle has been newly developed. The aluminum itself has not been considered the friction material for railway vehicle. However, in the case of aluminum composite with dispersed ceramic particles, friction characteristics, resistance to wear and heat are much improved. In the present study, aluminum composite brake disc of 20% ceramic particle and three kinds of organic pads have been tested in dynamometer. The results show that Al MMC brake disc and pad have good friction coefficient and wear rate, and thermal cracks in brake disc have not been initiated. Also, the Al MMC brake disc can be applied to railway vehicle of 150 km/h.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.971-974
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• 2011

Aluminum matrix composites reinforced with SiC particles(AMC) are one of the candidate materials for the weight reduction of rolling stock brake discs. It is known that weight reduction of about 40% is possible when they replace conventional cast iron brake discs. But casting is not easy because of bad wettability of SiC with Al alloy. We developed two AMC brake discs with SiC volume fraction of 20% by a new casting method. It was found the developed method produced brake discs of good quality.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.13-20
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• 2013

The present research aims to develop the aluminum disc brake replacing the existing cast iron disc brake. Material such as aluminum using FEM numerical analysis in order to improve the characteristics of each element, we analyze the performance characteristics and braking time you try to change. We try to lay the foundation for the development of an aluminum disc by investigating performance characteristics of the existing cast iron disc brake and comparing them with those of the aluminum disc. This involves FEM dynamics analysis for disc materials and experimental tests using the brake dynamometer. From this study, the results of 7075 aluminum braking performance can be seen that the best.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.283-288
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• 2011

The high heat resistant material for brake disc is required for higher speed trains. Although Aluminum is very expensive, it which has high thermal conductivity and low density has been adapted to high performance light-weight brake disc. In this study, we carry out the thermal stress analysis for suggested shape of Al hybrid brake disc which was designed to meet the optimal point between a performance and economic side. And we compare the results from the analysis to results of conventional disc at the same braking speed. The result show that the temperature on braking surface of Al hybrid disc is lower than the temperature on conventional disc surface, whereas the maximum thermal stress is larger than stress on conventional disc.