Newsletter
April 2007
The 17th Annual General Meeting of the Group will be held at:
12:30 hr on Wednesday, 17 October, 2007
The Institute of Physics
76 Portland Place,
London, W1N 3DH
All IOP Tribology Group members are invited to attend. Please confirm you intention to attend by email to , preferably at least seven days before the meeting.
Agenda
1. Minutes of the 16th Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday 18 October 2006
2. Chairman’s Report
Hon Secretary’s/Treasurer’s Report
Election of Officers* (see below)
Any Other Business** (see below)
Dr Philippa Cann
Honorary Secretary
*Election of Officers
Vacancies for Officers and ordinary members of the Committee shall be filled by election at the Annual General Meeting of the Group. Nominations, which shall be proposed by not less than two members of the Group and be accompanied by the written consent of the nominee, shall be sent to reach the Honorary Secretary of the Group not later than seven days before the Annual General Meeting.
**Any other business
Any member of the Group wishing to bring forward business of a character suitable for consideration at the meeting shall give notice of his/her intention in writing to the Honorary Secretary at least seven days before the meeting.
Tribology Group Newsletter 2007
Welcome to our new look newsletter.
In response to a number of requests the Committee decided that the most useful function of the newsletter was to provide a diary listing of Tribology Group events for the coming year. In addition we have included a listing of the events organised by our sister organisation the Tribology Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
In future the Newsletter will be sent out at the beginning of January. We hope this Tribology Diary will help all our members to plan their meeting attendance in the year ahead.
Tribology Group of The Institute of Physics
The Group was formed in 1980 by Professor David Tabor to provide a forum for the discussion of new research in fundamental aspects of interacting surfaces. The Group Committee meets quarterly to organise and develop the group activities particularly the one-day meetings. The Group organises three or four meetings in each year covering a variety of topics. These meetings usually take the form of one-day seminars with invited speakers and are usually held at the Institute of Physics. The committee would welcome feedback from Tribology Group members concerning the usefulness of these meetings. So comments please with regard to the subject matter, meeting format, publicity, timing and venue.
For more details of the committee members, group activities and meetings please visit the Institute of Physics website: www.iop.org
Dr Philippa Cann, Honorary Secretary
Tribology Group Events Diary 2007
Wear at High Temperatures 16 May 2007
Institute of Physics, London, UK
Co-sponsored by Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
In many systems, wear of components at elevated temperatures can be a significant issue in terms of efficiency, safety and lifetime. The operative wear mechanisms in any system depend upon a the mechanical properties along with the chemistry of the systems in question, and as such, wear at elevated temperature needs to be considered in detail, not simply as an extension of wear behaviour under ambient conditions. This meeting will seek to cover advances in both the measurement and understanding of wear at elevated temperature, and seek to explore the industrial drivers for this research.
Contact: Professor Phil Shipway,
Novel Applications of Surface Modification: Surfaces, Materials and Systems for the 21st Century (NASM) 18-20 September 2007
University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Organised by: the Applied Physics and Technology Division of the Institute of Physics
Sponsored by the Applied Physics and Technology Division and the Thin Films and Surfaces Group of the Institute of Physics
Co-sponsored by The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The British Vacuum Council, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics and the University of Southampton
The modification of the surface of a material allows the production of superior products in terms of reduced wear, increased corrosion resistance, better biocompatibility, improved optical and altered electrical/electronic properties. Clearly, as surface modification methods improve, there are many more possible applications of such surface tailoring methods. The conference has been planned so that scientists, engineers and manufacturers in different fields can come together to appraise the present applications of surface modification, establish where opportunities lie, identify the most significant challenges and address how problems should be tackled.
Following on from the first conference in the series, which took place in Chester in 2005, the conference format will promote discussion amongst scientists and engineers from different fields. There will be single sessions with ample time allocated for discussion. Invited speakers will include sufficient background in their presentations to allow delegates outside their field to obtain an overview of the state of the art. The conference in Chester attracted an international audience, and leading international speakers were invited and supported by funding made available by APTD; this support continues for 2007.
Plenary Lecture
The Path to Fusion Power will be delivered by Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith FRS, UKAEA Division.
Contact: Professor Robert Wood,
Dr Janice Barton,
Lubrication of Non-Ferrous Materials 17 October 2007
Institute of Physics, London, UK
With the increasing focus on making cars, trucks and machinery more environmentally friendly, there is a tendency to move away from steel. In cars and trucks, there is a move to lighter weight materials (aluminium alloys, components with diamond like coatings (DLC), etc) as lighter weight vehicles will have lower fuel consumption. The move away from steel may also be due to improved performance of alternative materials - for example in aerospace applications there is increasing use of titanium, and carbon fibres.
Since many lubricants have been optimised for steel-steel surfaces, there is increasing interest in the tribological performance of non-ferrous materials, and this meeting has been organised to give an update on progress in this exciting area.
Contact: Dr Philippa Cann,
Dr Ian Taylor,
For more information visit;
http://www.iop.org/Conferences/Forthcoming_Institute_Conferences/index.html
Institution of Mechanical Engineers Tribology Group Meetings 2007
Getting The Most Out of Machinery Condition Monitoring - The Design, Development and Application of Sensors, 13 March 2007
TRW Conekt, Solihull
Contact: Lisa Rist, IMechE:
Additives 2007: Applications for Future Transport: 17-19 April 2007
Royal Society of Chemistry, London
http://www.rsc.org/ConferencesAndEvents/RSCConferences/Additives2007/
Surface Science for Engineers 20 June 2007
National Physical Laboratory, London
Environmentally-Friendly Lubricants, June 2007
Sheffield University
Case studies in Tribology: October 2007
Cracking the Da Vinci Code, Autumn 2007
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London
Mission of Tribology Research: 5 December 2007
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London
For more information visit
http://www.imeche.org.uk/events/events.asp?year=2007
http://www.imeche.org.uk/tribology/events/technical_programme.asp
Committee Members
Chairman
Professor Philip Shipway, University of Nottingham
Honorary Treasurer
Dr Simon Johnson, Unilever Research,
Honorary Secretary
Dr Philippa Cann, Imperial College London
Honorary Web Officer
Dr Robert J. Wood, Southampton University,
Members
Dr Ben Beake, Micromaterials Ltd,
Dr Mark Gee, NPL,
Dr Hong Wei Wang, ERA,
Dr Steve Kukureka, University of Birmingham,
Professor Mark Rainforth, Sheffield University,
Professor Margaret Stack University of Strathclyde
Dr Ian Taylor, Shell Global Solutions,
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