This resulted in the motor industry designing new brake pad linings, including non-asbestos organic (NAO) pads commonly used in vehicles today. We compared the harmfulness of dust from the wear of ...

brake pads, disc rotor and mounting hardware. A drum brake assembly consists of a backing plate, wheel cylinder, brake shoes/linings, hold-down and pull-back springs, brake drum and an automatic ...

Brake pad particulate matter was collected using specialist equipment. In the laboratory, the Southampton team used samples of cells from the lining of the lung and exposed them to the fine ...