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Jean-Jacques CARRÉ: Engineer from École Supérieure des Techniques Aéronautiques et de Construction Automobile - Vice President Engineering at Allied Signal Europe, Technical Services
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n this article, we'll look at disc brake technology.
We would like to thank the Division Études et essais de freinage of the Direction du Matériel de la SNCF for their help with the text relating to rail applications, and the Ceramétal and Aérolor divisions of Carbone Lorraine for their help with the text relating to aircraft.
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