Brakes are one of the most important parts of any vehicle. You and your passengers' safety rests on these devices, which are built to slow down your car gradually or to completely halt your car during an emergency. Good-quality working brakes are absolutely essential to safe driving. Brakes are also useful for machines and equipment with moving parts that need[...]

The caliper disc brake is a device for stopping or slowing the spinning of a wheel. To be able to do this, friction is applied in the form of brake pads. These brake pads are mounted in a brake caliper. Friction can be applied hydraulically, electromagnet[...]

The Detroit Free Press published a front page article about a 110-ton container fully loaded with radioactive waste left dangling for 55 hours from a stuck crane on March 18, 2006. The container was hanging above the irradiated fuel storage pool of the react[...]

A dynamic brake is a type of brake that reconnects a motor as a generator. It uses a railroad vehicle's electric traction motors as generators to slow the vehicle. A dynamic brake system takes advantage of the idea that an electric motor works the same as a [...]

An electric brake is a device that uses electrically actuated components to stop or slow the motion of shafts. This type of brake is very useful in applications that require precise tension control and quick response times.

Electric brakes are class[...]

Elevators are wondrous things. Without them, climbing up to the top of the Empire State Building or the Eiffel Tower would be almost impossible. Building them would have been very difficult in the first place. They would have been invented way earlier had pe[...]

Another popular type of braking devices is the hydraulic brake. This brake arrangement uses brake fluid to transfer pressure to the actual brake mechanism from the controlling unit. The actual brake mechanism is usually near or at the wheel of the vehicle. T[...]

If you're the type of person amazed by industrial technology's heavyweights, you'll be surprised that most of them have one thing in common. Aside from their gigantic sizes, the incredible noise they produce, and the enormous amount of power they require, mo[...]

The most commonly used brakes are friction brakes. They work on the principle that friction can be used in converting the mechanical energy of an object in motion into heat energy. This heat is then absorbed by the brake, which makes the machine to slow down[...]