Automotive suppliers must be alert and responsive to a steady routine of process or material revisions, particularly in an automotive industry shaped by regulatory standards and hooked on the appeal ...

This blog is a compilation of publicly available information on Safran Group’s (Paris, France) production of carbon fiber-reinforced carbon (carbon/carbon) brake discs for aircraft. The company ...

Automotive design, and thus automotive manufacturing, is increasingly a function of regulations, or proposed regulations. In the European Union, the Euro 7 emissions program that are due to take ...

More than many other car components, brake discs are subject to repeated mechanical loads. As a result of this continual abrasion, they produce fine particulate matter, which poses a substantial ...

Disc brake pads are to brakes what a camshaft is to an engine. Where a cam is critical for defining an engine's power potential, brake pads are vital for successfully and repeatedly decelerating a ...

Consider the energy generated when the brakes of a Boeing 767 engage during landing: The plane has a maximum mass of 158,000 kg (350,000 lb) and a typical landing speed of 178 mph (287 kph). According ...