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INAUGURATION
Inauguration by Mr Jerry Byers, President, STLE
Guest of Honour – Dr Arun Jaura, VP Technology Centre, Eaton Corporation
Release of Abstract book and conference souvenir
INAUGURAL FUNCTION
Recorded Video message by President TSI, Dr R K Malhotra
Inaugural function followed by inauguration of Poster sessions and technical exhibition
Highlights of the conference
Theme: Tribology for Sustainable Development
3 Plenary sessions with Invited talks
16 Oral sessions with 64 papers
4 Poster sessions with 68 papers
Technical Exhibition with 17 stalls
2 Business Meet Sessions with 6 commercial presentations.
CONFERENCE THEME
CONFERENCE THEME : TRIBOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- Discussed in Inaugural lecture
By Chief Guest : Jerry P Byers, President STLE
Sustainability in manufacturing and development covering concepts like Hydraulic hybrid vehicles, green chemistry, wind turbine related issues etc.
CONFERENCE THEME
Lecture By Guest of Honour:
Mr Arun Jaura, Eaton Corporation, Pune
“Life Cycle Paradigm in Tribology for Sustainable Development”
Key points: Increased Fuel efficiency and life possible by incorporating tribology advances (savings to the tune of 102 billion gallons of gasoline)
CONFERENCE THEME RELATED LECTURES
Prof Satish Kailas in the first plenary lecture : Sustainability: Closing the Cycle and Tribology
Prof Wilfried Bartz in two plenary & Oral lectures: (1) Future Energy Sources for Mobility – Contribution of the Green Automobile (2) Definition and Characterization of Environmentally Acceptable Lubricants- The Eco Label.
CONFERENCE THEME
Dr Ed Becker of General Motors in thought provoking keynote lecture discussing
Towards a sustainable Worldwide Automotive Industry
ENRICHING INVITED LECTURES
Covering a variety of topics signifying “Tribology is indeed Multidisciplinary”
- Dr B Basu on “Formulating Lubricants using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)
- Mr Jerry Byers on Evaluation of Metalworking fluids and trends in Industry
- Mr George Plint on “Effects of Test machine Dynamics on Tribological Response”
PLENARY LECTURES
Prof Koshi Adachi on “Creating of Nanointerfaces for Super-low Friction” – to levels as low as 0.003 (VERY VERY DESIRABLE)
Dr Georges Limbert on “When Tribology meets Biology” citing modelling and testing of real life examples like Tribology of shaving, wrinkle creams looking at teeth, bones, skin, etc
CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS
Over 200 delegates in attendance
7 plenary speakers
64 Oral speakers including 8 keynote talks
38 Poster presenters
17 Exhibitors
6 speakers making Commercial marketing presentations in 2 Business meet sessions.
DELEGATE PROFILE
Delegates from 9 countries Austria
Germany
India
Japan
Korea
Singapore
Sweden
UK
USA
Academic faculty, Research Students and Industry engineers and R&D personnel
ORAL AND POSTER SESSIONS
16 Oral and 4 Poster sessions covering topics as follows:
Bearing and Gear Tribology
Wear Mechanisms
Surface Treatment & Coatings
Lubricants & Additives
Tribology in Manufacturing
Condition Based Maintenance System
Contact Mechanics & Friction
Automotive Tribology
Tribo - testing
Special Topics in Tribology
SOME KEY TAKE-AWAYS
Newer modeling techniques in contact mechanics
Realistic Tribo-testing simulations at the bench scale
Achieving Energy efficiency in hydraulic systems Nano-additives for improving lubricant
properties Performance improvements in industrial
manufacturing plants Tribology as a definite tool for lubricant
performance optimization Tribology of Hard disk drives Use of Oxygen and Nitrogen to achieve super
low friction at nano-interfaces Use of Radio-tracers for wear monitoring in
Engines
SOME KEY TAKE-AWAYS
There is still great scope for reduction of various forms of wear
Parametric Bearing design Optimization using modeling and experimental techniques
Engine oils/design/materials aiming at Energy efficiency without loss of performance
New Techniques for Equipment monitoring, and reliability improvement
Surface texture modification for thermal, wear debris trapping and friction reduction
Water and oil based nano fluids for better thermal diffusibility
Non-conventional low cost materials for friction and wear optimization.
Tribology and rheological aspects
WITH A SCIENCE LIKE TRIBOLOGY, THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS
TECHNICAL EXHIBITION
17 Stalls displaying products and services related to Tribology
Excellent response from delegates as per discussions with some of the exhibitors.
BUSINESS MEET SESSIONS
COMMERCIAL MARKETING PRESENTATIONS
Rtec Instruments
STLE
SKF QTC Austria
BASF
Metallizing Company
TSI
WE ARE GRATEFUL TO OUR CONFERENCE SPONSORS
PLATINUM SPONSOR Indian Oil
GOLD SPONSORS AFTON
BPCL
HPCL
L&T
Lubrizol
SILVER SPONSORS Eaton
NEI Industries
Tata Steel
CONFERENCE EVENTS
ELECTION OF NEW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF TRIBOLOGY SOCIETY OF INDIA (2013-14)
GENERAL BODY MEETING OF TRIBOLOGY SOCIETY OF INDIA
PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAMMES
ONE DAY EDUCATION COURSES ON
Basics of Tribology
6 lectures from industry and academia covering various aspects of basics
24 participants
Automotive Tribology
5 Speakers from industry and academia
22 participants
GOOD STUDENT PARTICIPATION
CONFERENCE DINNER EVENING
LIGHT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PROGRAMME BY SWARANAND PRATISHTAN
GOOD NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY FOR DELEGATES
FELICITATION OF SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS
NEXT ICIT conference
The next ICIT 2014 will be merged with ASIATRIB 2014 which will be organised from 27-30 January 2014 at New Delhi, INDIA
More Details on www.asiatrib2014.org
TSI invites all of the ICIT 2012 delegates to participate actively in that event, and also spread the word around amongst your fellow Tribologists.