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Frictional properties of carbon as a braking material (TM-TRIB-018)

Last updated on 12 July 2013 2:17

The One-fifth scale brake dynamometer has been used to investigate the friction characteristics between two specimens of highly graphitic carbon under sliding conditions simulating the prototype railway brake. Results have shown that there is a step transition from low to high friction occurring usually between 100° C and 200° C.

Author(s): Broster M.;Pollicott I.D.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1977

United Kingdom

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