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1. 2002 Tribology Gold Laureate Professor N A Bushe, one of the world's highly regarded tribologists, is the Tribology Gold Medal Winner for 2002. See his citation. On behalf of all members, the ITC extends its warm congratulations to Professor Bushe on this well merited award. The presentation of the Medal and the accompanying Parchment is expected to take place by the British Ambassador to Russia at a date yet to be announced. 2. Honour for Tribology Gold Medallist Professor Wilfried Bartz, Tribology Gold Laureate, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by the V A Belyi Metal Polymer Research Institute of Belarus, National Academy of Sciences in Gomel. The International Tribology Council extends its congratulations to Professor Bartz on this further recognition of his work on behalf of Tribology. 3. Promotion for Vice President of Society of Tribologists of Belarus Prof. Nikolai Myshkin, Chairman of the Society of Tribologists of Belarus has been promoted to be Head of the VA Belyi Metal Polymer Research Institute of the Belarus National Academy of Sciences. The Institute has a total staff of 400 has the largest tribology research team in the former Soviet Union, it is also a publisher of the Friction and Wear Journal (English translation by Allerton Press, NY). Professor Yuri Pleskachevsky, Professor Myshkin's predecessor has been elected a Vice President of the Belarus National Academy of Sciences. 4. Award for Vice President of SAIT Professor Philip L de Vaal of the University of Pretoria and ITC Vice President received the Wilbur Deutsch Memorial Award from STLE for his paper on the practical aspects of lubrication. 5. Award for Slovenian President The President of the Slovenian Society for Tribology, Professor Joze Vizintin has been awarded with the highest Slovenian award for scientific work - ZOIS Award for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of mechanical engineering. 6. Awards at NORDTRIB Conference During 2002 the NORDTRIB conference was held in Stockholm. During the conference dinner, which was held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Professor Koji Kato, Sendai, was give the Diploma as a Foreign Member of the Academy, and Professor Erik Hoglund, Lulea, was give the Diploma for become a Swedish Member of the Academy. Both are tribologists and Erik Hoglund now had the Chair that Gold Medallist Bo Jacobson occupied from 1973 to 1987. 7. Japanese Society of Tribologists The following changes have been announced by the Japanese Society of Tribologists: The official address of the Society is now: The present Vice President, Professor M Nishimura has been succeeded by Professor Masato Tanaka. 8. Bulgarian Tribology Society At the Annual Meeting of the Society of the Bulgarian Tribologists a new Managing Board was elected. The position of President of the Society of the Bulgarian Tribologists was conferred on Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emila Assenova. 9. Change in French Tribology Society The official name of the French Society is: Association Francaise de Mecanique - Group Scientifique et Techique "Tribologie" and its address is: Maison de la Mecanique, 92038 Paris La Defense, France. Monsieur Michel Armbruster who has been associated with ITC for many years since it foundation, has retired as President and has been elected to the "Association des Professionels et Amis e L'Aeronautique et de L'Espace". ITC thanks M. Armbruster for his support and services rendered to ITC over many years and wishes him well for his future. The new Tribology Group President is Tribology Gold Medallist Professor Jean Frene. His address is: Faculte des Sciences, Laboratoire de Mecanique des Solides, SP2M1 - Bd 3 - Teleport 2 - BP 179, 86960 Futuroscope Cedex, France. A new ITC Vice President will be nominated by Professor Frene in due course. M. Phillipe Durouchoux who will shortly retire, will be replaced as ITC Corresponding Member by M. Pierre-Alain Hacq, Delegue General, Association Francaise de Mecanique. 10. Tribology Creates New Links between US and China STLE joined with its counterpart organisation in China during October to co-sponsor a successful technical conference and to explore a working relationship between the two groups on future co-operative projects. The joint conference, built around the theme "New Frontiers in Tribology" was held October 17-19 at Tsinghua University in Beijing and was organised in co-operation with the Chinese Tribology Institute (CTI). The conference met its objectives of establishing a working relationship between the two societies, producing a high quality technical program and acquainting STLE with the capabilities of the Tribology Department at the University. Attendance at its maximum was about 76 people. Of these, 58 were professional people, and the remainder (about 20%) were students and graduates from the university. The conference technical program explored how tribologists and lubrication engineers in China and US are putting their technical expertise to work assisting global OEMs and fuel and lubricant additives manufacturers who are attempting to meet the challenges of changing consumer needs, environmental requirements and energy conservation. Future areas of co-operation between CTI and STLE ay include additional technical conferences, translation of technical information and interaction between the technical committees of each organisation. 11. Report from IRG OECD Meeting The Tribology Society of Finland celebrated its 25th Anniversary on the 15th November 2002 in Helsinki. The meeting was chaired by Professor Arto Lehtovaara, the President of the Society and it was attended by its Honorary President Professor Kauko Aho, several precious Society Presidents and numerous members of the society. Mr Ilkka Nieminen was awarded the Society Diploma for his important contribution as long time Editor of TRIBOLOGIA, the Finnish Journal of Tribology and Mr Pekka Salonen for his important contribution as long time secretary of the society. The 25th Anniversary Speech was given by Professor Kenneth Holmberg from the VTT. He pointed out that even if the society is relatively small and unbureaucratic it has initiated several actions that have had impact in favour of the tribology community worldwide. Such are initiating and arranging the first NORDTRIB conference, arranging the EUROTRIB conference in Helsinki 1989, publishing continuously in over twenty years TRIBOLOGIA - The Finnish Journal of Tribology and continuously encouraging and supporting tribology education and research. The contact between the Finnish Industry and Academia has during all these years been very close and this promises well for the future. A Short Report from the IRG-OECD Meeting in May 2002 "The International Research Group on Wear of Engineering Materials IRG - OECD held its 23rd meeting 6-7.5.2002 at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, hosted by dr Amilcar Ramalho. The president of the group is Professor Kenneth Holmberg. The scientific part of the meeting covered different aspects and new investigations related to tribotesting, tribo-data application, lubricated systems, failure criteria and wear prediction in a total of 24 presentations. The meeting was well attended with representatives from 16 countries in Europe, USA, Japan and South Africa. The 24th IRG - OECD meeting will be hosted by professor Jose Vizintin and take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in October 2003. Presentations related to reliability of tribotesting are especially welcome. Updated information on the meeting and the group is found in the web page: http://www.dem.uc.pt/irg-oecd/." Full particulars can be obtained from: WHAT DOES THE IRG-OECD DO? The International Research Group on Wear of Engineering Materials (IRG) is a unique body: an informal grouping of tribologists with a wide range of backgrounds, united with a common interest in the wear of materials. It was founded nearly 30 years ago, and holds discussion meetings every one to two years. The core of the membership is a group of national representatives from OECD countries, all active in the field of tribology, who provide a very broad international base. Members take it in turn to organise meetings, and the twenty meetings which have taken place so far have moved all over Europe and also to Japan. The main theme in the discussion meetings, which typically last two or three days and attract 20 to 50 participants, is informality and the freedom to discuss new, and in some cases controversial, results and ideas in a friendly forum. Proceedings are not published, although speakers produce short abstracts of their presentations which are circulated to members of the group after each meeting; contributors are, however, encouraged to submit their work for journal publication where appropriate. Each meeting tries to address a particular topic within the main interests of the group, although contributions within the field of wear, of any type of material, are always welcome. Topics which have received particular attention in the past, and will continue to do so, include: all aspects of wear and friction testing; failure criteria and mechanisms for lubricated, concentrated contacts; methods for wear control, including materials characterisation and numerical modelling; and methods for presentation and analysis of tribological data. The IRG has also organised collaborative projects among its members, notably leading to a multilingual glossary of tribological terms, and the IRG transition diagram for representing the behaviour of lubricated contacts. There is no membership fee, and the group is self-financing through the modest registration fees charged for meetings, and the generosity of organisations which act as hosts. International Information The European Community recently put the target to aim at % of the GNP in R&D expenses in the member countries before 2010. In November it launched its 6th Framework Programme to show the way how to achieve this end. The programme points out that the community want to support large and break-through research programmes in the areas of "smart coatings, tribology, thin films and surface engineering". This is the first time that the tribology research is directly addressed in one of the EC Framework programmes. 12. Slovak Society of Tribology The Slovak Society of Tribology was established in November 24, 1992 as the member of The Union of Slovak Scientific and Technical Societies (ASSTS) Slovak Republic. The Slovak Society of Tribology is a member of The International Tribology Council. It co-operates with House of Technology USSTS Bratislava Co. Ltd. in the organization of Symposiums, Seminars and other technical and scientific actions. The aim of the society is:
Some activities of the Slovak Society of Tribology: The Society in co-operation with the International Tribology Council, London UK and the House of Technology USSTS Bratislava organized very successfully the VIIIth International Symposium INTERTRIBO 2002 on October 14 - 17, 2002 in Stará Lesná, Slovak Republic. In this Symposium were presented more than 100 contributions from 15 countries. During this Symposium a panel discussion on "Motor Oils for 21th Century" took place. The panel discussions were led by Dr. Stefan Korcek from the Ford Research Laboratory, USA. An invited lecture on "Tribology Problems of Space Research" was presented by Victor Michajlovic Afanasjev, Russian cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union. All contributions are published in 400 pages Proceedings and also in CD-ROM, which are available in the Symposium Secretary INTERTRIBO 2002. During the Symposium there was a small exhibition of the testing equipment and methods, catalogues, yournals (Leaf Coppin Publishing, France, Machinery Yournal Sovakia, Bearings from KINEX, a.s. Slovakia, Lubrication Systems and Lubricants etc. In 2002 the Society celebrated its 10th jubilee (it was established on November 24, 1992). Even before this date the Society co-operated with other Societies in organising long term courses "TRIBOTECHNOLOGY" for specialists from the metallurgy, mechanical and machinery industry, petroleum and petrochemistry industry, transport companies, building industry etc. More than 300 graduates obtained certificates at the end of these courses. Awards:
13. The Tribology Gold Medal The Tribology Trust wishes to remind all Tribology Societies that the Tribology Gold Medal, the world's highest award for supreme achievement in Tribology is always open for nominations. There is no time limit for nominations, additional names can always be added if the information is of a sufficiently high standing. When a nomination is received the nominator is requested to answer a number of questions including the importance of the nominee's work to tribology, to science and technology, to the economy. In addition names and addresses are required from whom - in the strictest confidence - information about the nominee can be obtained. All this information is collected until it becomes clear to the very high level Awards Committee of the supreme achievement by and through tribology of the nominee. This achievement need not necessarily be in scientific research but can also be in education, promotion, industrial, invention and application etc. If a nomination is not accepted in a particular year that does not mean that additional information obtained in the following years may not lead to the award. The longest period of consideration has been 9 years, but that was unique. It should not be forgotten that like the Nobel Prize in Physics or Chemistry only one Gold Medal can be awarded in any one year. It is hoped that this clarification will enable Gold Medallists to be put forward now and in the future. The attached citation of the 2002 Tribology Gold Medallist may illustrate the kind of information required. IMPORTANT NOTICEITC will celebrate its 30th Anniversary For the latest information on Meetings and Conferences, as listed below, please see the Meetings and Conferences section: WTC III 14th International Conference on Wear of Materials STLE Annual Meeting TRIMIS 2003 Tribological Failure Mechanisms in Repeated Rolling Contacts Transient Processes in Tribology Tribology in Environmental Design 2003 - 2nd International Conference YAROFRI - 2003 Mechanics and Tribology of Transport Systems - 2003 10th European Space Mechanisms & Tribology Symposium STLE/ASME International Joint Conference TRIBOLOGY 2004 |