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Fricmart has developed a wide range of capabilities to support our customers’ needs. In-house capabilities include engineering design, research & development, and international service support on all of our products. In addition to our product design & development, we also offer comprehensive laboratory and brake testing services as an efficient and reliable means of providing test solutions.
We offer a wide array of testing services to evaluate product compliance with ECE, ISO, or JASO standards; or evaluate specific product characteristics, such as balance, squeal, roughness and judder, drift-pull, off-road dust intrusion, and durability. Many procedures were developed by FRICMART in cooperation with the automotive industry.
Our laboratory is equipped with state-of-art analytical instruments enabling it to offer the highest quality of testing services along with our broad range of testing experience, enables us to provide premier testing services to evaluate product compliance with existing standards, or assist in the development and execution of innovative test procedures.
The multi-disciplinary certified and experienced personnel team of professionals at our lab includes: Mechanicals and Administrative staff who’s qualifications, education and experience meet rigorous standards in the testing field.
Services performed in our Tribology Lab:
Training offered :
We train competent personnel in Manufacturing & Lab for proficiency in core area viz;
| 1 | Testing, interpretation of results, corrective action & remedies. | |||||||||
| 2 | Tests include CHASE, KRAUSS, BRAKE DYNO, HARDNESS, COMPRESSIBILITY, BOND SHEAR,THERMAL EXPANSION , CBS, TRS, INTL.SHEAR and other Testers for Physical, Chemical, Mechanical, Thermo mechanical ,Instrumental and Optical Testing of standards. Friction Materials as per ISO , ECE , SAE, ASTM,BSI , JASO and other International | |||||||||
| 3 | Basics & rules of formulating Friction Materials for cars, trucks , trains and off-high way/ industrial brake application. |
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| 4 | Designing of Friction Material’ composition to specific vehicle / terrain’ spec. | |||||||||
| 5 | Re-construction / Reverse Engg. Techniques to develop OEM formula. | |||||||||
| 6 | Cause & Effects of more than 100 Raw materials , their characteristics and tribological significance. | |||||||||
| 7 | Cause & Effects of `process parameters’ and `properties’ on the final product. | |||||||||
| 8 | DOE’s for cost reduction, substitution and to set up your own Friction Library . | |||||||||
| 9 | 4th Generation Asb.Free compounding , mixing & mfg.process techniques. | |||||||||
| 10 | Trouble shooting & Investigation in mfg.process and customer complaints. | |||||||||
| 11 | NVH analysis techniques and remedies using bench tests | |||||||||
| 12 | Validation of process parameters & FMEA compliance. | |||||||||
| 13 | SQC / OPC & Process capability compliance in manufacturing. | |||||||||
| 14 | ISO 9000 / TS 16949 & ISO 17025 system compliance. | |||||||||
Testing offered : Download FRICMART Testing Protocol
| TEST PROTOCOL FOR BRAKES & POLYMERS | ||||
| A. BRAKE LINING / BRAKE SHOE / BRAKE PAD | ||||
| Sl No. | Name of Test | Unit | Equipment | Method / Std |
| 1 | Density / Sp. Gravity | gm/cc | Density Balance | BS: AU 142/JASO C444 |
| 2 | Hardness , Rockwell | HR – R,L,S | Rockwell Hardness Tester – Computerized | SASO / ISO 2039-2 |
| 3 | Acetone Extraction | %wt | Soxhlet Extractor/ Analytical balance | BS: AU 142/JASO C444 |
| 4 | Loss on Ignition/ Ash content | %wt | Muffle Furnace / | BS: AU 142/JASO C444 |
| 5 | Water Swell | mm | Analytical Balance / Micrometer | IS 2742 |
| 6 | Bond Shear Strength | kg/cm² | U.T.M / Shear Tester , Computerized | SASO / ISO 6312 |
| 7 | Internal Shear / Plain shear | kg/cm² | U.T.M – Computerized | ISO 6311 / SASO 989 |
| 8 | Cross Breaking (CBS ) / Transverse | kg/cm² | U.T.M – Computerized | IS 2742/ |
| Rupture strength ( TRS ) | BS: AU 142 | |||
| 9 | Coeff. of Friction & wear | F C T R / CHASE Friction & Wear Tester – Computerized | ||
| Normal friction coeff. | mue | BS: AU 142/SAE J661 | ||
| Hot friction coeff. | mue | BS: AU 142/SAE J661 | ||
| Rating | Edge code | ISO 7881/ IS 2742 | ||
| wear in thickness | mm | JASO C418 / | ||
| wear in weight | grams | SAE J 866 ( Edge Code ) | ||
| 10 | Coeff. of Friction & wear | C S T R / KRAUSS Friction & Wear Tester – Computerized |
SASO 90 /ECE-R 90 (Annex- 8 ) |
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| Cold friction coeff. | mue | |||
| Min. friction coeff. | mue | |||
| Operation friction coeff. | mue | |||
| wear in thickness | mm | |||
| wear in weight | grams | |||
| Note: Facility for Heat Expansion & Compressiblity Test as per ISO 6313 & 6310 is under progress | ||||
| B. POLYMERS | ||||
| 1 | Limiting Oxygen Index | O₂ No. | Oxygen Index Apparatus | ISO 13501 |
| 2 | Detorioration of visibility due to Smoke ( Smoke Visibility ) |
Class | Smoke Visibility Tester | UIC 564-2 |
| 3 | Resistance to spread Flame ( Flammability Test ) |
Class | Flammability Tester | UIC 564-2 |
| 4 | Resistance to Ozone | physical | Ozone Chamber | ISO 1431 |
| 5 | Toxicity Index | T value | Toxicity Chamber | NCD 1409 |
| 6 | Tensile & Elongation | N/cm² % | Tensometer – computerized | ISO 188 / ISO 37 |
| 7 | Tear Resistance | N/Cm² | Tensometer – computerized | UIC 845 R |
| 8 | Flexibility | % | Tensometer – computerized | UIC 845 R |
| 9 | Abrasion Resistance | mm³ | Abrasion Tester | UIC 845 R |
| 10 | Ageing / Cold chamber Test | physical | Cold Chamber | UIC 845 R |
| 11 | Durometer Hardness | shore A | Shore Hardness Tester | ISO 48 |
| 12 | Compression Modulus | Y / F | U.T.M – Computerized | |
| 13 | Polymer identification | Class | Analytical Apparatus | ASTM |
| C. ASBESTOS IDENTIFICATION Note : Facility under progress | ||||
| 1 | Identification & Qualitative determination of Asbestos fibres Microscopy & analytical methods Polarized Light Microscopy/Stereo in bulk materials using PLM – |
Computerized / Digital Polarized Light Microscope, Stereo Microscope and Analytical Apparatus |
ISO 22262 – 1 | |