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disc brake
a type of brake in which two calliper-operated pads rub against a flat disc attached to the wheel hub when the brake is applied
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Over the following months, Norman and his team steadily ironed out the problems and turned the disc brake into the single biggest leap forward in car safety for decades.
The 13.5K version is available with drum or air disc brakes, the latter shown here with Bendix calipers and ConMet hub assemblies for braking performance and low maintenance operation.
The principle of a disc brake is very simple: a metal disc, the rotor, is firmly mounted to the rotating wheel.
An automobile's braking system, whether it uses disc brakes or drum brakes, is the most important part of a vehicle.
The company offers a pad and rotor combination for the most popular Bendix, Meritor and Wabco Air Disc Brake systems.
The disc brake model "AV Mix 17 Ecobrake" has been considered in this work; it is produced by "Ecobrake S.u.r.l." for high speed trains of Italian Railway.
SAF Holland is currently marketing several unconventional trailer technologies in the Middle East, including Tire Pilot, an upgraded axle system that automatically refills tyres to the correct pressure, as well as its disc brakes optimised for nine-tonne axles - and it is eyeing Saudi Arabia in particular.
Figure 1 shows a typical structure of a fixed-caliper disc brake for a vehicle.
This type of disc brake is used in motorcycles and cars.
Austin, TX, April 29, 2016 --(PR.com)-- WOOM BIKES USA is celebrating their two year anniversary in the US (us.woombikes.com) with the launch of their limited edition super light full carbon 20" disc brake bike.
CITATION: Du, Y., Lv, Y., Wang, Y., and Gao, P., "On the Effect of Friction Law in Closed-Loop Coupling Disc Brake Model," SAE Int.
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