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| ITC Meetings and Conferences May 2008 (No.188) |
LUBMAT 2008San Sebastian, Spain This meeting will address aspects of the management and technology of lubrication engineering associated with the maintenance and operation of large and small scale machinery and plant. Further information: Contact details for 2008 event - to be announced. NORDTRIB 2008Tampere, Finland All aspects of tribology are welcomed as topics for papers including experimental, modeling and theoretical work, as well as case studies. Papers dealing with practical problems and their solutions are especially welcome for promoting collaboration between universities, research institutes and industry. Particular attention is given to the following areas:
Further information: NORDTRIB 2008 Fax: +358 3 3115 2307 BALKANTRIB 200812th – 14th June 2008 The 6th International Conference on Tribology BALKANTRIB’08 will be held in Sozopol, Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria. Presenters have been invited to submit papers on the following main topics:
Further information: Tribology Centre Tel: +359 2 965 2643; +359 2 851 7622 TRIBOLOGY: FRICTION, WEAR, AND LUBRICATION23rd – 27th June 2008 This short course, located at the MIT Campus, presents, in a systematic form, current insights into tribology, focusing on the concepts of surface energy and delamination. Experimental techniques and quantitative relationships in friction and wear will be discussed. Special consideration will be given to the tribological properties of such materials as polymers and composites, and to the problem of applying fundamental knowledge to the control of friction and wear behaviour in practical situations. Further information: URL: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/designing_tribological_systems.html TRIBOLOGY 2008: Surface Engineering of Automotive Powertrains for Environmentally Friendly Transport8th - 10th July 2008 This conference will bring together those from industry, government and academia who are concerned with research, development and design in automotive powertrains and associated technologies. It will provide a multidisciplinary forum with significant networking opportunities for automotive engineers, materials technologists, lubricant scientists, surface chemists, system designers and modellers. The proposed conference themes are as follows:
Confirmed Keynote speakers:
Further information: Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7973 1242 YAROFRI – 2008Yaroslavl, Russia 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 expected. The official symposium languages are English and Russian. Further information: Evgeny G. Piven, Tel. (4852) 442 497 / (4852) 441 663 E-mail: tiir@yaroslavl.ru 35TH LEEDS – LYON SYMPOSIUM ON TRIBOLOGYLeeds, UK Duncan Dowson has been at the forefront of tribology research, education and applications for over 55 years. The year 2008 marks his 80th birthday and this milestone will be marked by dedicating the 35th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology to his many seminal achievements in tribology to date and to looking forward with him to the challenges that now lie ahead. To this end, Duncan himself will be the keynote speaker for the Symposium in 2008. It is expected that the following topics will be amongst those addressed at the Symposium:
For further information about the conference contact: Mrs S.M. Moore, Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2155 16th ANNUAL CAMBRIDGE TRIBOLOGY COURSE17th – 19th September 2008 Applications are invited for the 16th Annual Cambridge Tribology Course. The course covers a wide range of topics including: contact mechanics, surface engineering, test methods, and various aspects of lubrication and wear. For further information contact: Jo Griffiths, Tel: 01223 766141 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ABRASIVE PROCESSES (ICAP 2008)21st – 25th September 2008 The theme of ICAP2008 is the degradation of engineering surfaces by wear involving hard particles through both abrasive wear and erosive wear, and the beneficial use of the same processes in manufacturing engineering components. The meeting will bring together two communities whose work is very closely related but who rarely meet to discuss their common interests: tribologists specializing in wear, and engineers and applied scientists specializing in abrasive processing. Further information: Janet Seabrook, Tel: +44 (0) 1865 843 691 5TH CHINA INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TRIBOLOGY AND ITS - IFTOMM 200824th - 27th September 2008 Following the successes of the IST'1993, IST'1998 (which is coincident with Asiatrib'1998), IST'2001 and CIST'2004, the Fifth China International Symposium on Tribology (CIST'2008), in conjunction with the First International Tribology Symposium of IFToMM (ITS-IFToMM 2008), is going to take place on September 24-27, 2008, in Beijing, China. The objective of the conference is to bring together tribologists worldwide in the area from academia to industry for the purpose of sharing the latest research information and viewpoints. The topics of the conference include:
Further information: Tel: 86 10 62781379,62783160 27TH IRG OECD MEETING - Wear of Engineering Materials30th September – 1st October 2008 The 27th meeting of the International Research Group on Wear of Engineering Materials (IRG-WOEM OECD) will take place Fabeck Street branch site of the BAM - Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und - prüfung (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing), Berlin, and will be hosted by Dr. Rolf Wäsche and Dr. Mathias Woydt. This meeting will address to the main themes of the Group, such as: tribo-testing & tribometers; tribo-data applications; lubricated systems; failure criteria; wear prediction. Besides those general areas, the meeting will have the special topic: Tribotesting out of the usual laboratory scales (lower than N and higher than kN). Contributions for the conference within the proposed areas are most welcome. Further information: 7TH EDF AND LMS POITIERS WORKSHOPOperational Limits of Bearings: Improving of Performance through Modelling and Experimentation 2nd October 2008 This workshop is intended to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners from Industry and Academia to gather and share knowledge regarding bearing performance limits under unusual operating conditions. The conference will offer to the participants the opportunity to study the latest theories on this subject and to identify the problems met by industrials in a series of presentations. This event is the result of collaboration between the Electricité de France Company and the Laboratory of Solid Mechanics of the University of Poitiers. Furthermore, the workshop is organised under the auspices of the French scientific research centre (CNRS), of the French section of the ASME, of AFM and of ECRIN. Further information: Michel FILLON Laurence ARTUS Fax: +33 5 49 49 65 04 STLE /ASME International Joint Tribology Conference20th – 22nd October 2008 The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) and the Tribology Division of ASME International are sponsoring the 2008 International Joint Tribology Conference at the Hyatt Regency Miami in Miami, Florida (USA). This is an international exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge in research, development, manufacturing, application and teaching of the science and technology of tribology. Topic areas are:
Further information: Web: www.asmeconferences.org/IJTC08 3RD VIENNA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NANO TECHNOLOGYVienna, Austria The 3rd Vienna International Conference on Nano Technology targets fundamental as well as technological issues of nano-effects with emphasis on mechanical properties. The main topics are:
The closing date for the submission of a title and short abstract (max. 1 DIN A4 page) is: 15th June 2008 This conference will be organised by Prof. Bartz (Tribologie und Schmierungstechnik), Prof. Franek (Austrian Tribology Society) and Dr. Keuper (Technische Akademie Esslingen). Detailed information please find on our homepage: www.oetg.at/viennano09 Conference office: Martina Nuhsbaumer, Tel/Fax: +43 (0)1 505 34 00 FOURTH WORLD TRIBOLOGY CONGRESS (WTC IV)6th - 11th September 2009 The next World Tribology Congress (WTC IV) will be held in Japan in 2009 over the period 6th to 11th September. The Congress, hosted by the Japanese Society of Tribologists (JAST), will be held in Kyoto International Conference Hall. For further information please go to the congress website: http://www.wtc2009.jp/ For immediate advance information contact: Congress Secretariat Tel: +81 3 5216 5551 |