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Minister of
Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri Ram Naik at TSI Stall
during
Petrotech-2001. Shri M.A.Pathan, Chairman, IOCL is also
seen in the picture
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The second World Tribology Congress was held during 3rd7th September, 2001 in Vienna, Austria. Nearly 1000 delegates from over 50 countries attended the conference. It may be recalled that the previous Worid Tribology Congress took place in London four years ago, in the same hall, exactly sixty years after the first ever-international conference dealing exclusively with friction, wear and lubrication.
In the inaugural address , Prof. H. Peter Jost, President, International Tribology Council pointed out that one of the principal aims of Tribology Congress of Vienna was to fight the lack of awareness and to storm the bastion of ignorance about our subject. He further added that in today's world relying on computers, tribological failure of magnetic storage system would have catastrophic consequences. Tribologically caused unreliability in a spacecraft would not only be extremely expensive but also risk human lives. The Tribological aspects in medical engineering are crucial to prevent unnecessary pain, suffering - even death. In our daily lives injuries and death have been caused in such areas as railways, conveyors and many others, most of which were avoidable had Tribological laws been followed in design and operation.
The exhibition at the venue had participation from lubricant manufacturers, test laboratories, publishers, equipment manufacturers, plastic injection
moulders, electroplaters and technical societies.
While a healthy participation from Europe was natural, there was a remarkably strong Japanese presence. They outnumbered participation from every other country. Range of their papers was very broad and application oriented. It was announced at the 2nd World Tribology Congress in Vienna that Professor
Dr-ing Wilfried J Bartz, one of the world's best known and highly regarded
Tribologists, was the Tribology Gold Medal Winner for 2001.
N.M. Dube
DUCOM, Bangalore
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Dr. C. M. Reddy receives Young Engineers Award.
Dr.C. M. Reddy, Associate Professor at CBIT Gandipet,Hyderabad has been awarded the "Young Engineer of the Year-1999". The award is jointly instituted by the Institution of Engineers (India), AP State Chapter and Govt. of Andhra
Pradesh.
Indian Journal of tribology
Tribology Society of India is planning to launch its quarterly journal "Indian Journal of Tribology" during the ICIT at Jamshedpur. This will be distributed to all lifemenbers as part of the benefit for being a member of this society.
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| Members
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Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir,
I have just received our Society's maiden newsletter. To say the least, I am very much impressed by the contents. This is what I aspired for a long time. Thanks for bringing out a nice issue against all odds. Hope you would continue bringing out more issues like this with the same missionary zeaT, which Hyderabad has been awarded the "Young Engineer of the has been seen in the pages of this newsletter.
The article on Dr. K. S. Ramayya is informative and makes interesting reading. I hope you would bring out more tributes like this in the future issues also.
There are some spelling mistakes in this issue. Hope they would not find a place in the future issues.
Once again, I thank you for bringing out the excellent newsletter.
With regards,
Anandan. N
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| Forthcoming
meetings & conferences: |
1. 13th International Colloquium on
Tribology, Lubricants , Materials and Lubrication Engineering, 15-17th January 2002, Technische Akademie
Esslingen, Germany
Email; Renate.Pfeiffer@tae.de
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2. 4th Lubricating Grease Conference, 16-18th January 2002,
Bangalore, India, Organised by NLGI India Chapter
Email: naithanikp@iocrnd.stpn.soft.net.
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3. 8th Annual Fuels and Lubricants Asia Conference and Exhibition, January 29 to 1st February, 2002. Singapore Contact: Vicky Villena-Denton , Fax: 632-807-5490
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4. Condition Monitoring Conference and Exhibition, 18-20th February 2002, Organised by
STLE, Dallas, Texas, USA
Email: information@stle.org
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5. Fall Meeting of Materials Research Society,
Sanfrancisco, California, USA. April 2-4th, 2002.
Email: info@mrs.org
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6. International Conference on Industrial
Tribology, 8-11th April, 2002. Jamshedpur India. Organised under the aegis of Tribology Society of
India
Email: cmishra@jsr.tatasteel.com
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7. 57th STLE Annual Meeting. May 19-23, 2002, Huoston Texas USA.
Email: information@stle.org
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8. The 10th Nordic Symposium on Tribology - Nordtrib 2002, 9- 12th, June 2002, Sponsored by: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,
Sweden
Email: nordtrib@md.kth.se
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9. Balkantrib 2002,4th International Conference on
Tribology. June 12-14th, 2002, Kayseri, Turkey
Email: bt2002@erciyes.edu.tr
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10.Microscopy and Microanalysis 2002. August 4-9th, 2002 Quebec
Canada
Email: pcharest@rsvsulaval.ca
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11.The Golden Research Conference on Tribology ,4-9th August, 2002 , Roger Williams University , Bristol, Rl USA, Contact: Dr. lrwin Singer.
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12.3rd International Symposium on Fuels and Lubricants, New Delhi, India, 7-9th October, 2002.
Email: info@isfl.org .isfl@iocrnd.stpn.soft.net
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13.1CSE 2002, 3rd International Conference on Surface, Engineering, 10-13th October, 2002.
Chengdu, Sichuan Province, CHINA
Email: icse2002@home.swju.edu.cn
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14.AsiaTrib 2002 International Conference, 21-24th October, 2002, Cheju Island, Korea.
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15.2002
ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference, 27-30th October, 2002, Moon Palace
Resort,Cancun, Mexico
Email: information@stle.org |
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Meetings & Conferences: |
Limits of lubrication - A tribute to Alistair Cameron, 10th -13th July
2001, Department of Chemical
Engineering, Imperial College, London UK, Email : j.burberry@ic.ac.uk |
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World Tribology Conference 3rd - 7th September 2001, Vienna, Austria Email:info@wct2001-vienna.ccc.at |
28th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology-Boundary and mixed Lubrication: Science and Applications 3rd
- 7th September, 2001,
Vienna, Austria Email: S.M.Moore@leeds.ac.uk |
3rd International symposium on Tribo-Chemistry, 10th -12th
September, 2001 Niemotomice near Krakow,
Poland Email: splaza@krysia.uni.lodz.pl |
INTERFACES 2001 : Global Problems - Regional Solutions Budapest Hungary 19th-21 September, 2001.
Email:
mail.mke@mtesz.hu |
9th European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium,
Liege, Belgium, 19th - 21 Sept. 2001
Email: m.delville@aim.skynet.be |
68th Annual Meeting of NLGI October 27th - 31st 2001 at the Breakers, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
Email: nlgi@sound.net |
International Conference on Industrial Tribology , 27th - 30th November, 2001. Jamshedpur India.Organised
under the aegis of Tribology Society of India.
Email : cmishra@jsr.tatasteel.com |
13th International Colloquium on Tribology,
Lubricants, Materials and Lubrication Engineering,
15th-17th
January, 2002, Technische Akademie Esslingen,
Germany. Email: Renate.Pfeiffer@tae.de |
Balkantrib 2002, 4th International Conference on Tribology, June 12th -14th,
2002, Kayseri, Turkey.
Email: bt2002@erciyes.edu.tr |
ICSE 2002,
3rd International Conference on Surface Engineering, 10th - 13th
October, 2002. Chengdu,
Sichuan Province, CHINA. Email:
icse2002@home.swju.edu.cn |
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