Performance Evaluation Tribological and Thermal Friction Materials During the Braking Process

In this paper, we sought to verify the operating parameters of a disc brake system for motorcycles using a bench testing based on Krauss procedure described by the ABNT NBR 6143/1995 [1]. It was decided to conduct an experiment Factorial 2 3, in which the three control factors considered (type of brake disc, type of chip and the value of the brake lever on working pressure) have changed on two levels each. It sought to analyze the properties of new materials involved, and after a certain time of use, called settlers materials. To evaluate the performance of the brake system during the braking process, we analyzed four response variables simultaneously: final temperature, coefficient of friction, deceleration time and braking force. Factorial Design of Experiments techniques were used to analyze the collected data. As a result, the most satisfactory tribological performance happened to the pair of materials constituting the friction disk and pads, setting, and an increased brake lever of the actuation pressure value. As for the temperature, best results occurred for the friction pair new materials with lower pressure. Finally, it proposed an optimization technique in order to find the best combination of the levels of each factor to optimize the overall performance of multivariable response