EVALUATION OF THE CONTACT TEMPERATURE AND WEAR OF A COMPOSITE FRICTION PAD IN BRAKING A. A. Evtushenko and E. G. Ivanik UDC 536.12:539.377 We suggest an analytical model to determine the contact temperature and wear of the working surface of the elements of friction brakes. It is assumed that one of the elements of the friction pair represents a two-period system of conjugated dissimilar layers and the other represents a homogeneous half-space. In the process of friction the wear factor depends linearly on contact temperature. We have studied the influence of the effective parameters of the composite and also of the parameter that characterizes the change in loading from zero to the nominal value and on the distribution of the contact temperature and wear in braking. JEPTER74920199921 JEPTER7492021