Car brakes optimised: successful collaboration with Audi Sport

In a joint collaboration, the technology transfer centre ANAXAM, PSI and Audi Sport successfully demonstrated the potential for optimising car brakes. Neutrons from the spallation neutron source SINQ at PSI were used for this purpose. Using a jointly developed measurement method, it was now possible for the first time to look live into the brake caliper and thus sound out optimisation possibilities. For the industrial partner Audi Sport, this collaboration yields promising results.

This project is a great example of successful technology transfer and shows how PSI's large-scale research facilities and ANAXAM's expertise can optimise a well-known product and contribute to new ideas.  

https://www.psi.ch/en/media/our-research/further-optimising-car-brakes

https://www.anaxam.ch/en

Phillippe Würsch (left) and Matthias Wagner (right) from ANAXAM appreciate the good and close cooperation with David Mannes from PSI, which was also successful in the case of the brake piston investigations. (Photo: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic)
Phillippe Würsch (left) and Matthias Wagner (right) from ANAXAM appreciate the good and close cooperation with David Mannes from PSI, which was also successful in the case of the brake piston investigations.
(Photo: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic)