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Comparative study of airborne particles on new developed metal matrix composite and commercial brake pad materials with ANN and finite element analysis

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Particulate matter (PM) in the atmosphere is an essential component of air pollution that can cause adverse health effects. The study aims to develop eco-friendly brake pad materials. The new brake pad materials have been developed at compacting load (15 Tons) and sintering temperature (250 ℃) using the powder metallurgy process. Elemental analysis of brake pad samples is done with Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) and Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) mapping. FESEM measures the size of the wear debris. Compression tests and hardness tests have been performed for the strength of brake pad samples. It has been observed from the tribometer test that the developed sample has a lower wear rate and mass loss as compared to the commercial brake pad sample. Wear debris sizes of developed and commercial brake pads are varied from 1.865–159.7 µm and 1.180–101.7 µm, respectively, by FESEM analysis. It has been observed that wear debris particles are smaller for commercial brake pad than developed brake pad. A particle size analyzer (PSA) is used to find the range of airborne particles. It is observed that commercial brake pads have emitted many small-sized particles, i.e., less than PM10 (particulate matter less than 10 µm) compared to developed samples. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model has been used to predict the mass loss and verified by experimental results. Interfacial temperature rise in brake pad pin system has been measured in tribometer. It is observed that experimentally observed temperature rise is very near to FE computed temperature rise, and error is less than 1% for the developed and commercial brake pad sample. FE obtained results are validated by the experimental analysis. The present study shows that the eco-friendly developed brake pad has lower airborne particles emission with better mechanical properties and heat transfer capability than the commercial brake pad.

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Kumar, S., Priyadarshan & Ghosh, S.K. Comparative study of airborne particles on new developed metal matrix composite and commercial brake pad materials with ANN and finite element analysis. Comp. Part. Mech. 10, 273–287 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40571-022-00491-9

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