%0 Generic %A Goñi, J. %A Coleto, J. %A Egizabal, P. %A Rubio, A. %A García, A. %A Sanchez, J. %T Ventilated brake discs manufactured in aluminium matrix composites and hypereutectic aluminium alloys %D 2003 %@ 0255-5476 %U https://hdl.handle.net/11556/3688 %X Two different aluminium alloy materials have been used to produce ventilated brake discs, on one hand, AS17G0.6 hypereutectic alloy and on the other hand, AS7G0.6 reinforced with 20% in wt. of SiC particles. The casting production technique used has been Low Pressure Casting (LPC) and some of the brake discs have been heat treated using a T6 treatment. Once the ventilated brake discs were produced and machined, they were tested in a dynamometer in order to compare the performance under service conditions of the aluminium alloy and grey cast iron (GCI) discs currently used in the market. %~