The invention provides a preparation method of a
brake pad. The preparation method comprises the step of carrying out 3D printing on the surface attached with a
metal layer, of a steel backing, by virtue of a
raw material powder of the
brake pad to obtain the
brake pad, wherein the components of the
metal layer are the same as
metal components in the
raw material components of the
brake pad. According to the preparation method provided by the invention, a high-power
electron beam enables the components in the material of the
brake pad to be adequately reacted during a 3D printing process, so that the obtained
brake pad has high mechanical performance and functional performance; and moreover, the steel backing with the surface attached with the metal layer having the components the same as the metal components in the raw materials of the brake pad is adopted, the metal layer is molten to form a thin
molten bath under the scanning of the high-power
electron beam during the 3D printing process, and adequate metallurgical bonding is carried out between the
molten bath and the
raw material powder of the brake pad, so that a wear-resistant layer in the brake pad and the steel backing have a high
bonding strength. In addition, the power of the
electron beam scans on the raw material
powder of the surface of the steel backing during the 3D printing process, without influence on the organizational structure of the interior of the steel backing, thus the own mechanical performance of the steel backing is ensured.