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Brake Systems and Friction Analysis

Brake Systems and Friction Analysis is a research topic within Automotive Engineering. Science Explorer counts 8.6k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the tribological properties and performance of automotive brake friction materials, including studies on disc brake squeal, thermal analysis, wear mechanisms, friction-induced vibrations, and the environmental impact of friction materials.

  • Automotive Brake
  • Friction Materials
  • Tribological Properties
  • Disc Brake Squeal
  • Thermal Analysis
  • Wear Mechanism
  • Friction-Induced Vibrations
  • Composite Friction Materials
  • Mode-Coupling Instability
  • Environmental Impact
Research works
8.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
868
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Brake Systems and Friction Analysis

Which countries lead Brake Systems and Friction Analysis research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (707 and 183 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 707 works
  2. 2 India 183 works
  3. 3 United States 94 works
  4. 4 Germany 94 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 81 works
  6. 6 Italy 61 works
  7. 7 Japan 59 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 56 works
  9. 9 France 47 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 46 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 49.5%India: 12.8%United States: 6.6%Germany: 6.5%6 others listed: 24.6%50%largest
China707 · 49.5%India183 · 12.8%United States94 · 6.6%Germany94 · 6.5%6 others listed351 · 24.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Brake Systems and Friction Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Southwest Jiaotong University publishes the most Brake Systems and Friction Analysis research, followed by Tongji University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 42 works
  2. 2 Tongji UniversityChina 28 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 16 works
  4. 4 Central South UniversityChina 15 works
  5. 5 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 13 works
  6. 6 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 12 works
  7. 7 Northeastern UniversityChina 12 works
  8. 8 Dalian Jiaotong UniversityChina 12 works
  9. 9 Hefei University of TechnologyChina 12 works
  10. 10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Brake Systems and Friction Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Brake Systems and Friction Analysis include David A. Weitz.

  1. 1 David A. Weitz United States 132k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Brake Systems and Friction Analysis?

The most cited paper in Brake Systems and Friction Analysis is "Influence of tribology on global energy consumption, costs and emissions" (Kenneth Holmberg, Ali Erdemir, 2017), with 2,214 citations. Next come "Global energy consumption due to friction in passenger cars" (1,610) and "On the Fractional Calculus Model of Viscoelastic Behavior" (1,094).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Influence of tribology on global energy consumption, costs and emissions Kenneth Holmberg, Ali Erdemir · Friction Open access Sep 2017 2,214
2 Global energy consumption due to friction in passenger cars Kenneth Holmberg, Peter Andersson, Ali Erdemir · Tribology International 8 Dec 2011 1,610
3 On the Fractional Calculus Model of Viscoelastic Behavior Ronald L. Bagley, Peter J. Torvik · Journal of Rheology Feb 1986 1,094
4 A Contact Force Model With Hysteresis Damping for Impact Analysis of Multibody Systems Hamid M. Lankarani, Parviz E. Nikravesh · Journal of Mechanical Design Sep 1990 1,040
5 Viscosity, granular‐temperature, and stress calculations for shearing assemblies of inelastic, frictional disks Otis R. Walton, Robert L. Braun · Journal of Rheology Oct 1986 979
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Where is Brake Systems and Friction Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Brake Systems and Friction Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Chengdu (China) and Xi'an (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 115 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 62 works
  3. 3 ChengduChina 54 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 33 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 31 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 25 works
  7. 7 ChongqingChina 21 works
  8. 8 ChangshaChina 21 works
  9. 9 DalianChina 20 works
  10. 10 ShenyangChina 20 works
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Where is the best place to study Brake Systems and Friction Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Southwest Jiaotong University, Central South University and Northeastern University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 19.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Central South Univer…Southwest Jiaotong U…Northeastern Univers…Tongji University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 93.529.7%32.9×42 +49.9%
2Central South UniversityChina 68.531.4%4.7×15 +58.3%
3Northeastern UniversityChina 59.123.8%8.0×12 +83.8%
4Tongji UniversityChina 56.811.6%10.9×28 +52.6%
5Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 46.317.1%6.6×13 +16.1%
6Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 45.332.2%4.7×9 -22.7%
7Politecnico di TorinoItaly 44.316.5%13.0×10 -26.4%
8Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 42.613.4%7.0×11 +26.2%
9Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 41.213.9%9.1×9 +95.2%
10Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 39.69.5%8.3×12 +28.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Brake Systems and Friction Analysis, country by country

Is Brake Systems and Friction Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Brake Systems and Friction Analysis.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Brake Systems and Friction Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0073% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Brake Systems and Friction Analysis0.0079% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Brake Systems and Friction Analysis over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Brake Systems and Friction Analysis10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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