This report clearify the following facts, concerning the changes -caused by braking- of microscopic structure of brake shoes and tyres. These results were obtained by the observation of the structure just beneath the friction surface of shoes and tyres which had been used for actual servlce.
(1) Changes of the structure were observed within some 100
μ beneath the friction surface, and also flowing out of pearlite in matrix and graphite was recognized it. Friction surface was supposed to had been heated up to the high temperature over 800°C by actual braking, for outer layer of some 20∼50
μ beneath the surface was seemed to be transformed into martensite.
(2) Wear of brake shoes is promoted by the striping of flowed flaky graphites off the surface.
(3) As to the tyres used for light weight cars, some 50∼100
μ thick layers beneath the friction surface were transformed, and thin layers of fine granular peareite had formed on that surface. It means that the tyre surface temperature was raised up to the A
1 transformation point.
On the other hand, as to the tyres used for heavy weight cars there have been some 250∼300
μ thick transformed layers, and accicular martensite had been found on the tyre surface.
It is because the tyre surface had been heated higher than 800°C and had been tempered by air blast in the case of the braking.
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