Harder, Longer-Lasting Brake Discs via Carbide Deposition
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2024
- Etxetar and Talens are developing an additive manufacturing process utilizing precise laser metal deposition to mass-produce automotive brake discs, incorporating tungsten or titanium carbide layers for enhanced wear resistance.
Spanish machine tool builder Etxetar, along with its sister company, laser deposition specialist Talens, together are working with a major auto producer to develop a process using additive manufacturing to mass-produce superior-performing automotive brake discs. Coming environmental regulations in Europe will limit the amount of brake dust cars are permitted to release through the normal friction of stopping. The solution: precise laser metal deposition, the top layer of which will be either tungsten or titanium carbide for wear resistance. During a visit to Etxetar in Spain, Peter Zelinski learned about this process.
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Etxetar: izadi-group.com/
Talens: www.talenssys.com/en
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I'd like to see them after a couple of years use in the Salt Belt before i decide if I am interested.
Porsche already has a pretty similar tech on their metal rotors, only with tungsten instead of titanium
It's titanium carbide (a cermet), not metallic titanium.
I honestly thought this problem would be solved by electric cars for free. I guess it's still useful for all the non electric trucks with no regeneration.
Circuitry can still fail. I think regen is great, but it's better to have true working mechanical brakes as a backup.
@@beng6319 For sure... But if you only use your breaks for emergencies the amount of particles you make is reduced greatly.
At that point I think it would be better to focus on making the breaks resist the environment. Cause when you don't use them that often, then they won't be worn down over time and have to last the lifetime of the car.
Electric cars are not a good option for everyone who lives in apartments.
60% of the US grid is still powered by fossil fuels so right now the only thing EVs solve is deluding people into believing they've solved anything.
The best thing you can do is fix up a car destined for the scrap yard car and not buy a new car.
Do you think the manufacturing was done with clean energy? What about transportation of materials? The mining and refining operations?
All powered by fossil fuels.
The amount of energy required to build a car is insane and now more than ever we've exported that effort to places that use even more fossil fuels than us and then we put it on a container ship burning high sulfur fuels all to keep the pollution somewhere else like Asia South America and Africa