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The goal of this work is to study the wear behavior of materials that have the potential to be used as brake pad materials under different contact loads and speeds instead of asbestos. The three different brake pad materials studied are flax fiber reinforced phenolic composites (FFRC), basalt fiber reinforced phenolic composites (BFRC), and flax/basalt reinforced hybrid phenolic composites (HFRC). A wear mechanism map was developed by using the fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm method (FCM) to study the wear mechanism of composites. The results showed BFRC to be a better brake pad material than the other fiber reinforced composites studied, because the good thermal characteristics and bonding nature of basalt fiber increased the wear resistance of BFRC considerably.
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Ashok Kumar IIANKO. He is an assistant professor of manufacturing engineering at Annamalai University, Chidambaram, TN, India. He received his bachelor and master degrees from the same university. His areas of interest in research includes polymer matrix composites, natural fibre reinforced composites and their industrial applications. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis that studies natural substitutes for asbestos in vehicle brake shoes.
Srinivasan VIJAYARAGHAVAN. He received his bachelor degree in production engineering from Annamalai University, India in 1998. He joined as a lecturer in the Department of Production Engineering. Later he completed his master degree at Annamalai University in 2004. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2009 in the field of tribology of polymer composites. His current position is an assistant professor in the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Annamalai University. His research areas cover the natural fiber and bio degradable based polymer composites and also his research-area focuses on nanocomposites.
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Ilanko, A.K., Vijayaraghavan, S. Wear behavior of asbestos-free eco-friendly composites for automobile brake materials. Friction 4, 144–152 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-016-0111-0
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