ОOO Fritum

7th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON FRICTION PRODUCTS AND MATERIALS

September 9 – 11, 2008

Yaroslavl

Russia /
YAROFRI - 2008
/ Announcement and Call for Paper

Symposium YAROFRI-2008 is organized by OOO Fritum with the financial support of its founders (OAO TIIR, Yaroslavl, OAO Fritex, Yaroslavl, OAO VATI, Volzhskiy, OAO BzATI, Barnaul, OAO Yegorievsk ATI Plant, Yegorievsk, OAO ATI Plant, St.Petersburg, OAO ARTI, Tambov, OAO UralATI, Asbest) and, by tradition, with the immediate assistance of the Tribology Engineers Association of Russia (TEA) and the Engineering Academy of Russia (EAR).

Symposium YAROFRI-2008 will be held in Yaroslavl, an ancient Russian city, placed on the bank of the river Volga, 270 km north-east of Moscow. Yaroslavl has a good car and railway service with Moscow and its inner and international airports. In early September warm and stable weather with temperature about 15°C is typical here.

S U B J E C T

The purpose of the symposium is to consider development, production and application of polymer friction composites as well as the problems of markets of friction products. Papers on the subjects of developing, producing and testing friction materials and products, features of markets of friction materials, marketing, and main mechanisms of friction and wear are accepted.

P r o g r a m m e

1.  Friction composites and products: methods (state-of-the-art conceptions) of developing, processing and testing.

2.  Equipment for raw material analysis, production, tests and inspection of finished products.

3.  Theoretical issues of friction and wear.

The official symposium languages are English and Russian.

The programme also includes lunches, a party and sightseeing around the ancient city of Yaroslavl.

D A T E S

Registration by March 1, 2008

Manuscripts of papers (about 1500 words) by April 1, 2008

Symposium YAROFRI-2008 September 9 - 11, 2008

PARTICIPATION IN THE SYMPOSIUM WITHOUT PERSONAL ATTENDANCE

Participation in the symposium without personal attendance may be possible. In this case you should be registered as a participant without personal attendance and contribute a paper.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

OOO FRITUM reserves the right to preliminary considering the submitted papers and approving the papers for their presentation and publication in the proceedings. The authors of the papers chosen for presentation should follow the submitted text.

INFORMATION FOR THE AUTHORS OF PAPERS

Authors are kindly asked to take into account the following details when preparing their manuscripts:

1.  A manuscript should not be longer than 1500 words or 6 computer-printed pages (A 4). Please, use Microsoft Office.

2.  Times New Roman type No 12 is recommended.

3.  The title of a paper should be placed in the center and printed in bold large letters of size No 14. The name(s) of the author(s) should be printed in the center skipping a line. Then skipping another line the abstract follows as a column in italics. The names and addresses of the companies represented by the authors are to be indicated as a footnote on the 1st page with indication of the countries.

4.  The text of the paper should be printed with single spacing and with margins (25 mm on the left, 20 mm on the right, 20 mm at the top and at the bottom).

5.  Figures and tables should be made using WINDOWS. Tables should be placed in the text, pictures come after the text. References indicating authors’ names, titles of the articles used, titles of journals, their volume, year, number (issue), pages (in case of a book the name(s) of its author(s), its exact title, the publishing house, year) should be listed at the end of the paper in the order of mentioning them in the text.

6.  All the values mentioned in the paper should be given in international units (SI).

7.  The text of your manuscript should be submitted to the Organizing Committee in English as a file on a CD. The file should be entitled with the name of the author who sent his application form to the Organizing Committee.

8.  Since only electronic versions of papers will be published, contributions on paper carriers cannot be accepted.

REGISTRATION FEE

Registration fee for participants makes 200 €.

Registration fee for participants without personal attendance makes 25 €.

Please credit

(ОOО Fritum)

Payments in EURO
OOO Fritum
150048 Yaroslavl
Moskovsky av. 149
Saving Bank of the Russian Federation
(Severny Office)
Yaroslavl Branch No 17
SWIFT code: SABRRUMMYAI
Corr.acc. 30101810500000000670

BIC 047 888 670

IBAN 40702978677030220056

(Foreign banks commission is at the sender’s expense. The sum should come to our account in the full amount.)

A C C O M M O D A T I O N

Accommodation during the symposium will be available in a hotel in the center of the old part of Yaroslavl. Accommodation in hotels and breakfasts should be paid by the participants.

All enquiries and correspondence should be addressed to :

Evgeny G. Piven

Head of Department

OOO Fritum

Moskovsky avenue, 149

150048 Yaroslavl Russia

Tel. (4852) 442 497

(4852) 441 663

Fax (4852) 442 497

e-mail :

http://www.tiir.ru

7th International Symposium

on Friction Products and Materials

YAROFRI-2008

Application form

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