Abstract
Abstract:
Engineering experience shows that beside the direct impact of influencing factors (interface pressure, sliding speed or temperature) on friction and wear in friction mechanisms, some side effects have to be taken into account, because of the inter-related influences of these main quantities. In order to examine these effects, also known as "tribo-mutations", a number of inertia dynamometer tests were conducted in Accredited Laboratory for Friction Mechanisms and Brake Systems at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade. Results presented in this paper suggest the possibility of tribo-mutation influences on the character and scale of variation in friction and wear of automotive friction mechanisms.
Yugoslav Society of Automotive Engineers