×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Titanium brake rotors for bicycle

Titanium brake rotors for bicycle

Titanium brake rotors for bicycle

(OP)
I was wondering if anybody has any experience with brake rotors or any other braking application using titanium?  I'd like to make some out of Ti but I'm not sure what grade.  I'd also like to avoid surface treatment if possible.  The stock rotors I have are stainless and I'm trying to figure out exactly what alloy they are.

Thanks for any help.

Mike

RE: Titanium brake rotors for bicycle

Brake rotors are a wear-dependent product.  Titanium, especially uncoated, has terrible wear properties.  It is best if you search for another material.

Regards,

Cory

Please see FAQ731-376 for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips Fora.

RE: Titanium brake rotors for bicycle

A better material for your application might be a MMC...

Try finding BN or SiC particulate rienforced aluminium.

nick

RE: Titanium brake rotors for bicycle

Duralcan makes SiC reinforced material with a base chemistry comparable to 6061.It has seen limited use in automtotive as brake rotors. Diamond tooling is required for machining, however.

RE: Titanium brake rotors for bicycle

(OP)
Is is possible to cut any of the materials mentioned with a laser or more likely a waterjet?

It just sounds as though the mentioned materials will be expensive.  What problems would I see if I try Titanium?  Will the rotors wear or would they be harder on the pads than stainless rotors?

Thanks for all of the help so far!

Mike

RE: Titanium brake rotors for bicycle

Of course the materials are going to be expensive.. you want it all: Light weight, good wear resistance. I'm not really sure about the Ti and surface wear as a rotor... Also thermal conductivity is really important too... you wouldnt want to have a brake fade problem on the way down a long hill...

Nick
I love materials science!

RE: Titanium brake rotors for bicycle

MCKEAND13,

You may want to ask someone involved in racing.  Try Wildwood Racing Brake Company.  They make Titanium brake rotors for automotive brake racing applications.

HiGroove.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources