A method for the determination of the specific heat and heat of decomposition of composite materials

An Experimental Investigation of Frictionally-Excited Thermoelastic Instability in Automotive Disk Brakes Under a Drag Brake Application

“…In particular, the coefficient of friction in the sliding interface between the friction pad and disk often decreases at high temperature, resulting in the phenomenon know as brake fade. The cause of brake fade is thought to be thermal decomposition of the composite material at high temperature (Rhee, 1974;Henderson et al, 1982). However, it is also plausible that the localized high temperature contact regions resulting from TEI may initiate and/or accelerate brake fade.…”

A numerical study of the thermally-induced response of decomposing, expanding polymer composites

“…The virgin and char components of the specific heat and heat of decomposition for both the pyrolysis and carbon-silica reactions for H41N were reported by Henderson, Wiebelt, and Tant [5]. Henderson, Wiebelt, Tant, and Moore [13] measured the virgin and char components of the specific heat and heat of decomposition for the pyrolysis reactions for MXBE-350. Henderson [14] measured the kinetics of decomposition for both materials and calculated the kinetic parameters for the pyrolysis and carbon-silica reactions.…”

Modelling thermal degradation of composite materials

“…In other words, small differences in the r s ðTÞ function were obtained among the different tests. For the second appraoch, data from thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) at 208C/min for MXBE-350 (LR2612) published in Reference [19] were utilized for r s ðTÞ (See Figure 4). Unlike the numerical approach, r s ðTÞ from Reference [19] was not linked to the applied flux of any given test.…”