posted on 2018-09-11, 15:07authored byDaniel E.E. Hayes
Six sets of subscale carbon–carbon composite rotors and stators for
aircraft brakes were manufactured to provide friction and wear test samples at six
different densities. The friction and wear tests used energies to represent the
service energy of the Boeing 767 aircraft. A functional relationship between
fiction coefficient and porosity/density was made. This relationship was used to
minimise manufacturing cost by providing the minimum densification of the
carbon–carbon composite brake discs needed to meet design friction coefficient. [Continues.]
History
School
Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
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Publication date
2002
Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.