DEVELOPMENT OF BRAKE PAD USING ORANGE PEEL REINFORCEMENT POLYMER COMPOSITE

Abstract

Studying about alternate materials for brake pads is necessary as the asbestos brake pads causing the carcinogenic effects and these are phased out. There are so many alternatives for asbestos are investigated from different journals. Fibers made up of agricultural wastes like banana peels, palm kernel shells, palm wastes, rock wool, aramid fibers, flax fibers etc are studied. Different alternatives for filler materials, Different binders like phenolic resin, epoxy resin are also studied. We propose a composite material where the brake pad is reinforced with the orange peel polymer. Utilization of natural fruit waste reduces the environmental problems and more effectively some of the fibers giving almost equal strengths and resistance as given by traditional synthetic fibers. In this work a set of new composite were prepared with weight percentage of orange peel (44%), Al2O3 (15%), carbon powder (10%) and the remaining is the resin (31%) and a set of Experiments were carried out to study the Wear and hardness of the composites