The friction surface of gray cast iron brake rotors

Numerical analysis of the stresses developed during the sliding of a cylinder over compact graphite iron

“…1 can be found in the work by Rhee and Ducharme [8], who studied the characteristics of gray iron brake rotors that were previously used in a vehicle with mass on the order of 2300 kg. In that work [8], the graphite flakes at the specimen surface were also compressed and covered by a plastically deformed layer with thickness from 1 to 2 m.…”