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2. How Air Brakes Work | HowStuffWorks

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   If your car’s brake fluid leaked out, your brakes wouldn’t work. The triple-valve system is the basic concept at work in today’s air-brake systems in trains, buses and tractor-trailers. Let’s switch gears and learn how air brakes in roadgoing vehicles work in the next section.

3. Air brake (road vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   An air brake or, more formally, a compressed-air-brake system, is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston is used to both release the parking/emergency brakes in order to move the vehicle, and also to apply pressure to the brake pads or brake shoes to slow and stop the vehicle.

4. Air Brake System: Diagram, Parts, Working & Application [PDF]

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   An air brake system comprises a two-stage air compressor driven by the crankshaft or gearbox shaft. In this braking system, the air is taken from the atmosphere, compressed, and then delivered to the reservoir through an un-loader valve.

5. How Do Air Brakes Work? Air Brakes Explained Simply

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   How does an air brake system work? Air brakes work by using compressed air instead of hydraulic fluid to apply the service brakes and release the parking brake. There are multiple air circuits in the system, and the parking brake can also be used as the emergency brake system.

6. Air Brake System - Parts, Working, Diagram, Principle, Advantages

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   An air brake or, more formally, a compressed air brake system, is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston is used to apply the pressure to the brake pad needed to stop the vehicle.

7. Air Brakes - An Introduction. How it works. - YouTube

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   This video gives an introduction and brief look at air braking systems on heavy and commercial vehicles. You'll see from the animations that all systems have a compressor to supply the...