Prof. Dr. G.P. Ostermeyer is a professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig and head of research at SiDyS GmbH, a company that offers consulting and simulation of complex systems. Until 2022 he was head of the Institute of Dynamics and Vibrations (IDS). Prior to that, he held the Chair of Mechanics and Friction Physics at the Technical University of Berlin. He has about 30 years of experience in industry and academia in the field of modelling and simulation of complex systems and has authored more than 250 publications. He has received numerous national and international awards, including the Dan Mahannah Achievement Award for his brake research. He is a member of numerous international steering committees and advisory boards.

For centuries, Coulomb's Law of Friction has been used as a first approximation to describe friction. A static friction process is used to characterize the dissipation metrologically. However, these conditions do not apply to brakes in particular. The brake industry uses highly complex simulation programs to design their products. Much attention is paid to the geometry of the brake, but not to the dynamic properties of brake friction. This explains why simulation results are often very inaccurate.

In recent decades, highly complex dynamic processes have been found in the friction boundary layer of brakes, which explain many of the friction properties of brakes that are abnormal in the Coulomb sense. Here, novel friction models offer an entry into the analytical description of friction linings for the optimization of friction, wear and even emission properties. In this work, we show how such dynamic friction models can be developed, parameterized and verified using data science methods.