Tribological properties and thermal-stress analysis of C/C-SiC composites during braking
(1. National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology for National Defence on High-strength Structure Materials, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
2. State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
3. Institute of Science, Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Co., Ltd., Baotou 014030, China)
2. State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
3. Institute of Science, Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Co., Ltd., Baotou 014030, China)
Abstract: The tribological properties and thermal-stress behaviors of C/C-SiC composites during braking were investigated aiming to simulate braking tests of high-speed trains. The temperature and structural fields of C/C-SiC composites during braking were fully coupled and simulated with ANSYS software. The results of tribological tests indicated that the C/C-SiC composites showed excellent static friction coefficient (0.68) and dynamic friction coefficient (average value of 0.36). The highest temperature on friction surface was 445 °C. The simulated temperature field showed that the highest temperature which appeared on the friction surface during braking was about 463 °C. Analysis regarding thermal-stress field showed that the highest thermal-stress on friction surface was 11.5 MPa. The temperature and thermal-stress distributions on friction surface during braking showed the same tendency.
Key words: C/C-SiC composites; brake; tribological behavior; temperature field; thermal-stress field