Effects of Electrothermal Contact Resistance in Metal-Polymer Friction Pairs of Brakes

The article examines to the electrothermal contact resistance of moving and fixed joints.Movable resistances include the frictional interaction of microprotrusions of friction pairs, on thespots of which at the initial moment of time an electrical contact resistance is formed, which laterbecomes a thermal contact resistance. For two fixed coaxial cylinders, the task is to determine themagnitude of the contact specific loads depending on the heat flow passing through the secondshell, its temperature and the physical and chemical characteristics of the materials. The electrothermal contact resistance in metal-polymer friction pairs of brakes under cyclic and long-termbraking modes with variable dynamic coefficients of mutual overlap is that with discrete contactof microprotrusions under the influence of pulsed specific loads, their electrical contact resistanceis formed in the surface layers of the friction pairs and in the volumes of microprotrusions and inthe surface layers of friction pairs – their thermal contact resistance.