A Review on Brake Lining Materials

The quick growth of eco-friendly brake lining materials has necessitated the scientists towards expanded research and development of many safer suitable materials, because of the ban on the use of asbestos. As a result, brake manufacturing industries have started researching for frictionless brake lining materials. The past researchers focused on fiber reinforced polymers, non-metallic, semi-metallic, fully metallic and ceramics materials. Ceramics shows a great promise in the applications of friction materials. Most of the experimental output suggests that the selection of brake lining materials should be based on the experimental trial and error method rather than the theoretical method. In this review article, applications towards recent development of metal and ceramic matrix composites as brake lining materials have been studied.