Vehicle Braking Technologies - Advanced Emergency Braking System, Air Brake (Road Vehicle), Anti-Lock Braking System, Ausco Lambert Disc Brake, Autom (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 88. Chapters: Advanced Emergency Braking System, Air brake (road vehicle), Anti-lock braking system, Ausco Lambert disc brake, Automatic braking, Bicycle brake, Bragg-Kliesrath brake, Braided stainless steel brake lines, Brake-by-wire, Brake assist, Brake bleeding, Brake fade, Brake fluid, Brake lining, Brake pad, Brake run, Brake shoe, Braking distance, Compression release engine brake, Drive by wire, Drum brake, Dynamic braking, Dynamic braking (locomotive), Eddy current brake, Electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains, Electromagnetic brake, Electronically Controlled Brake, Electronic brakeforce distribution, Emergency brake (train), Emergency brake assist, Energy regeneration brake, Engine braking, Exhaust brake, Hydraulic brake, Inboard brake, Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Kunze-Knorr brake, Line lock, List of Aircraft braking systems, Maxaret, Parking brake, Parking pawl, Railway air brake, Regenerative brake, Retarder (mechanical engineering), Sensotronic Brake Control, Single-leading-shoe drum brake, Slip ratio, Track brake, Twin-leading-shoe drum brake, Vacuum brake, Vehicle brake, Wig wag (truck braking systems), WVA number. Excerpt: A bicycle brake is used to slow down or stop a bicycle. There have been various types of brake used throughout history, and several are still in use today. The three main types are: rim brakes, disc brakes, and drum brakes. Most bicycle brake systems consist of three main components: a mechanism for the rider to apply the brakes, such as brake levers or pedals; a mechanism for transmitting that signal, such as Bowden cables, hydraulic hoses, rods, or the bicycle chain; and the brake mechanism itself, a calliper or drum, to press two or more surfaces together in order to convert, via friction, kinetic energy of the bike and rider into thermal energy to be dissipated. The earliest...