Carbon ceramic brakes also called ceramic composite brakes is a version of the fixed caliper disc brake and is used on supercars and high performance vehicles. The difference or improvement in the carbon ceramic brakes can be credited to the use of different materials and changes in the design but it operates in the same way.
The materials used will be a carbon ceramic material for the brake pads instead of asbestos or semi metallic brake pads and the rotors are a combination of carbon, silicon and a resin. The design incorporates vents inside the rotor or disc that runs from where the hub ends to the outer edge of the rotor. The rotor or disc is seperate from the hub and is usually bolted onto the hub. These designs can be found on ordinary disc brakes but in the minority. The advantages of a set of ceramic composite brakes on your high performance vehicle will be
- The ability to maintain their functionality at high temperatures due to the fact that they don’t keep the heat. This is their greatest advantage. In high performance vehicles as much as six tons of force can be applied to stop your vehicles producing alot of heat, over 1000 degrees F and the boiling point for brake fluid will be between 550 to 700 degrees F but carbon ceramic brakes can dispurse the heat before it reaches the brake fluid. Frequent and heavy braking from high speeds is effectively achieved for longer.
Surface Transforms plc (LON:SCE) is a manufacturer of next-generation carbon-ceramic brake discs for automotive and aircraft applications and has been certified to IS9001-2000 since 2008 and was certified to TS16949 automotive quality accreditation and AS9100C aerospace quality accreditation in 2015.
