Hope that everyone enjoyed
the meeting! Per your request the list
of registrants can be found here. See you in two years!
2008 Gordon Research Conference on
Tribology
“Advancing Interfacial Science and
Engineering”
July 6 - 11, 2008
Chair: Kathy Wahl, Naval Research
Laboratory, kathryn.wahl at nrl.navy.mil
Vice-Chair: Mark Robbins,
IF you have any questions, email us
For a flier with the schedule and other details click here
Information about
attending this Gordon Conference can be found at:
http://www.grc.org.
Look under the heading “For Attendees” on the left side.
Note: you "apply" (we expect to be
able to accept all applicants) and then you register.
Goals
of Meeting
The field of tribology is an interdisciplinary science that invokes knowledge
and experience over an extremely wide range of size and time scales. Interfaces
play a key role in transmitting forces in sliding or rolling contacts and are
often the locus of wear. In most cases, observation of these interfaces is
limited by the bounding materials and provides challenges for scientists and
engineers to understand and interpret the complex interactions in tribological
processes. The 2008 Gordon Conference on Tribology's theme, Advancing
Interfacial Science & Engineering, provides a venue to examine and
understand the physics, mechanics and chemistry of buried interfaces in
relative motion. We will be highlighting the most recent advances in
instrumentation and simulation to visualize tribological contacts, as well as
new approaches to understanding basic principles of contact phenomena. The
conference speakers will include experts on fundamental physical and chemical
processes, as well as experts in applied engineering mechanics. Essentially all
tribology problems involve a combination of each of these areas; the strength
of the Tribology Gordon conference is that it provides a unique opportunity to
bring together experts in disparate fields to create new approaches for
treating the complex problems tribology presents. The conference will be a
lively and provocative meeting for discussion and exchange of new ideas between
established intellectual leaders in tribology and scientists and engineers new
to the field.
All attendees are encouraged and invited to present a poster on their current
research. If time permits, we will repeat our “Light Speed” oral poster
preview presentations.
Note: All talks include ~20-25 minutes for Discussion
If you would like to be added to the mailing list for future information on this conference, please contact the Conference Chair, Kathy Wahl.
For information on the SITE (pictures below) see: Colby College
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OUTLINE OF PROGRAM
Please note:
The information is subject to change, so check back closer to the meeting.
SUNDAY
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2:00 pm - 11:00 pm Arrival and check-in
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff & Conference Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm SOLVING TRIBOLOGY PROBLEMS BIG AND SMALL
Discussion Leader: Tom
Dickinson (
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm Gary Doll (The Timken Corporation)
“Fighting the Dragon – The Challenges of Wind Energy Tribology”
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm Mike Dugger (Sandia National Laboratories)
“Wearless Sliding of Silicon via Tribochemical Reactions with the Vapor Phase”
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY
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7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm BIO-INSPIRED LUBRICATION
Discussion Leader: Alfons Fischer (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
9:00 am - 9:35 am Seunghwan Lee
(ETH-Zürich)
“Soft is Slippery: Tribology as if Water Mattered”
9:35 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:05 am Jian
Ping Gong (
“Friction & Lubrication of Gels – Towards its Relevance to Biolubrication”
11:05 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:05 pm Marcus Wimmer (Rush University Medical Center)
“ Wear Simulation of prosthetic joints: Debugging the lubricant ”
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pm Photo
12:45 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session I
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm DIAMOND-LIKE CARBON TRIBOLOGY
Discussion Leader: Martin
Müser (
7:30 pm - 8:05 pm Judith
Harrison (
“Effects of Structure, Doping, & Environment on the Tribochemistry of DLC”
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:05 pm Chris Donnet (University Jean Monnet, St. Etienne)
“Making DLC More Versatile for Tribological Applications”
9:05 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
9:45 pm Poster Session I (cont.) and Discussion
TUESDAY
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7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm NANO- & MICROTRIBOLOGY
Discussion Leader: Rob Carpick
(
9:00 am - 9:35 am Andre Schirmeisen
(University of Münster)
“Nanoscale Friction Experiments by Nanoparticle Manipulation: From Amontons’ Law to Superlubricity”
9:35 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:05 am Kyung-Suk
Kim (
“Micromechanics of Friction: Effects of Nanometer-scale Roughness and Scale Bridging”
11:05 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:05 pm Miquel
Salmeron (
“Controlling Friction by Turning a Knob”
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session II
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm LUBRICATION FUNDAMENTALS
Discussion Leader: Nic Spencer
(ETH-Zürich)
7:30 pm - 8:05 pm Scott Bair (Georgia Institute of Technology)
“Reality-based Elastohydrodynamics”
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:05 pm Hugh
Spikes (
“Lubricious Polymers”
9:05 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
9:45 pm Poster Session II (cont.) and Discussion
WEDNESDAY
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7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm CONTACT MECHANICS
Discussion Leader: Yanfei Gao
(
9:00 am - 9:35 am Michael Chandross (Sandia National Laboratories)
“Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Single-Asperity Nanotribology”
9:35 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:05 am Bo
Persson (
“Contact Mechanics for Randomly Rough Surfaces with Applications to Rubber Friction, Adhesion, and Seals”
11:05 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:05 pm Jane Wang (Northwestern
University)
“Virtual Tribological Interfacing: First, the Labyrinth of Surface Topography”
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session III
6:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm Business Meeting I (Nominations for the next Vice Chair)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm TRIBOLOGY IN THE EXTREME
Discussion Leader: Irwin
Singer (
7:30 pm - 8:05 pm Scott
Perry (
“Cryotribology”
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:05 pm Laurie Marks (Northwestern University)
“Tribology in Full View”
9:05 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
9:45 pm Poster Session III (cont.) and Discussion
THURSDAY
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7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
8:45 am - 9:00 am Business Meeting II
(Election of the next Vice Chair; Fill out
Conference Evaluation Forms;
Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm MATERIALS TRIBOLOGY
Discussion Leader: Ali Erdemir
(
9:00 am - 9:35 am Philippe Kapsa (Ecole Centrale de Lyon)
“Advances and Challenges in Wear Modeling”
9:35 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:05 am Tom
Scharf (
“On the Role of Interfacial Layers and Shear Accomodation in Solid Lubricants”
11:05 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:05 pm Siegfried Fouvry (Ecole Centrale de Lyon)
“Fretting Wear”
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm Free Time
6:00 pm Special Dinner -- Lobster and Clam Bake on Johnson Pond (on campus)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm SPECIAL INVITED TALK AND WRAP-UP
Discussion Leader: Kathy Wahl
(
7:30 pm - 8:20 pm Jim
Greenwood (Emeritus,
“Bowden & Tabor’s Contribution”
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:00 pm Kathy Wahl and Mark Robbins
“Forward into 2010”
9:00 pm Serious Discussion
FRIDAY
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7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Departure
No Proceedings or written references to the
presentations made at this meeting are allowed. Therefore, participants are encouraged
to bring their most important new results. The conference features active
discussions at the oral and poster sessions, and plenty of time for in-depth
discussions throughout the week in an informal atmosphere.
FOR MORE INFO AND TO REGISTER:
Gordon Research
Conference HOME PAGE
Information
on Transportation to the Meeting
(Do not be intimidated
-- apply!! We expect to be able to accept everyone,
including graduate students)
Limited Financial Support may be
possible (students, post doctoral and young
research faculty poster presenters have priority) -- contact
Mark: mr at jhu.edu
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Dr. Kathryn J. Wahl (Chair) Code 6176, Tribology Section
(202) 767-5419 VOICE (202) 767-3321 FAX |
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Prof. Mark O. Robbins (Vice-Chair) Dept. Physics and Astronomy
(410) 516-7204 VOICE (410) 516-7239 FAX
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Webpage maintained by Mark Robbins, mailto:mr@pha.jhu.edu Updated Feb. 14, 2008.