2010 Gordon
Research Conference on Tribology
“Challenges at the Buried Interface”
June 27-July 2,
2010
Chair:
Mark Robbins,
Vice-Chair: Alfons Fischer, University Duisburg-Essen, alfons.fischer at uni-due.de
IF you
have any questions, email us
Information
about attending this Gordon Conference will be available in 2010 at this
location and at http://www.grc.org/.
Grants
from the National Science Foundation and Air Force Office of Scientific
Research are gratefully acknowledged.
Thanks also to Springer and Wiley who have provided support for poster sessions
Goals of Meeting
Tribology
is the study of interacting surfaces in relative motion and encompasses the
fields of friction, lubrication and wear. It impacts nearly every aspect
of our daily lives and is essential to technological applications with moving
parts. Tribology is by nature a highly interdisciplinary field.
Researchers address atomic interactions at sliding interfaces and earthquake
dynamics on faults. Applications include improving car engines, hip
joints and cosmetics, shrinking devices to micro- and nanometer scales, and
expanding the range of temperatures, speeds, and chemical environments where
devices operate. The Gordon Conference on Tribology has a long tradition
of bringing together researchers with a wide range of backgrounds, techniques,
and applications for lively discussions and exchange of new ideas on how to
address the complex problems tribology presents.
Many
of the great challenges in tribology require an improved understanding of the
buried interface that transmits forces between sliding solids. The
chemistry and geometry of bearing surfaces and any lubricant between them play
a critical role in friction and wear, but are difficult to access
experimentally and evolve with time and sliding distance. The 2010 Gordon
Research Conference will focus on new experiments, theories and computer
simulations that further understanding of the buried interface. One focus
of the meeting will be new experimental observations of the buried interface
and calculations of its geometry and dissipation mechanisms. Other talks
will address methods for controlling and optimizing interfacial properties and
lubricants. Studies of the mechanisms biological organisms use to
control tribological processes at the buried interface and medical applications
will be presented. Invited speakers will represent the forefront of
fundamental and applied research in a wide range of disciplines at universities,
government laboratories and industrial laboratories. Their presentations
will be complemented by lively interactions through programmed discussion
sessions, poster sessions and informal gatherings in the afternoons and
evenings. These forums will facilitate cross-fertilization between fields
and exchange of new ideas in an open, collegial atmosphere.
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 or know
someone else who would be interested, please contact the Conference Chair, Mark Robbins.
For information on
the SITE (pictures below) see: Colby College
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Information on Transportation to the Meeting
SUNDAY
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2:00 pm - 9:00 pm Arrival and check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm -
7:40 pm Welcome /
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm -
9:30 pm BIOLOGICAL
INSPIRATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
Discussion Leader: Matthias Scherge
(Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials)
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm Georges Debregeas
(Ecole Normale Supérieure)
“Stress Fluctuations in Sliding of Textured Objects
and the Sense of Touch ”
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm Aiguo
Wang (Stryker Orthopaedics)
“Opportunities and Challenges in Joint Replacement
Tribology”
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY
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7:30 am
- 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00
am - 12:30pm SHINING A LIGHT ON BURIED INTERFACES
Discussion Leader: Thomas Scharf (
9:00 am
- 9:35 am Jay
Fineberg (The Hebrew
“Slipping and Sliding: Rules of the Road from Local
to Global”
9:35 am
- 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am
- 11:05 am Kathryn Wahl
(Naval Research Laboratory)
“Probing Buried Interface Chemistry with Linear Spectroscopies”
11:05 am
- 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:05 pm Ali Dhinojwala
(The
“The Use of Nonlinear Optics to Probe Buried
Interfaces”
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 JOINT TRIBOLOGY
Discussion Leader: Philippa
Cann (
7:30 pm - 8:05 pm Anne Neville (
“Biotribocorrosion –
Understanding Tribology, Corrosion and Their Interactions in Joint
Replacements”
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:05 pm Robert J. Wood (
“Micro and nano-scale
abrasion-corrosion of surfaces”
9:05 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
9:45pm Poster Session I (cont.) and Discussion
TUESDAY
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7:30 am
- 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm CONNECTING FRICTION TO ATOMIC STRUCTURE
Discussion Leader: Ashlie Martini (
9:00 am
- 9:35 am Robert Carpick
(
“From Atomic Membranes To
Molecular Adsorbates: How Interfacial Atomic
Structure
Influences
Nanotribology”
9:35 am
- 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am
- 11:05 am Roland Bennewitz
(Leibniz Institute for New Materials)
“TBA”
11:05 am
- 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:05 pm Somuri Prasad (Sandia National
Laboratory)
“The Influence of Crystallography and Nanostructures
on Metallic Friction”
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 THIRD BODIES, LARGE AND SMALL
Discussion Leader: Michael
Urbakh (
7:30 pm - 8:05 pm Chris Marone (
“Friction in Fault Gouge”
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:05 pm Mathieu
Renouf (Université de Lyon)
“Advances in Third Body Modeling”
9:05 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
9:45pm Poster Session II (cont.) and Discussion
WEDNESDAY
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7:30 am
- 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm MONITORING CHANGES AT THE BURIED INTERFACE
Discussion Leader: Irwin Singer (Naval Reseach Laboratory)
9:00 am - 9:35 am Martin
Dienwiebel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
“In-Situ Analysis of Lubricated Tribosystems”
9:35 am
- 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am
- 11:05 am Jean-Michel Martin
(Ecole Centrale de Lyon)
“Tribochemistry With Selected Gases and Surfaces:
Toward In-Situ Analysis”
11:05 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:05 pm Martin
Müser (Universität des Saarlandes)
“Visualization of Wear Mechanisms with a New Gold
Marker Technique”
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
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm Business Meeting I (Nominations for next Vice Chair)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm COATING STRATEGIES AND PROPERTIES
Discussion Leader: Judith Harrison (
7:30 pm - 8:05 pm Ali Erdimir
(
“Design of Novel Nanocomposite
Coatings for Severe Tribological Applications”
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:05 pm Izabela Szlufarska (
“Toward Molecular-Level Understanding of the
Relationships Between Microstructure and Wear”
9:05 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
9:45pm Poster Session III (cont.) and Discussion
THURSDAY
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7:30 am
- 8:30 am Breakfast
8:30 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 LUBRICATION STRATEGIES AND MECHANISMS
Discussion Leader: Staffan
Jacobson (
9:00 am - 9:35 am Izhak
Etsion (Technion)
“The Impact of Surface Texturing on Tribology”
9:35 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee
Break
10:30 am - 11:05 am Nicholas
Spencer (ETH Zurich)
“Making Surfaces Slippery with Polymer Monolayers”
11:05 am
- 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:05 pm Susan Sinnott (
“Atomistic Insights into MoS2 Tribology”
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm Free Time
6:00 pm Special Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm SPACE TRIBOLOGY
Discussion Leader: Alfons
Fischer (University Duisburg-Essen)
7:30 pm - 8:15 pm W. Gregory Sawyer (
“The Final Frontier”
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:00 pm Mark Robbins and Alfons
Fischer
“Forward into 2012”
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
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7:30 am
- 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Departure
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Prof. Mark O. Robbins (Chair) Dept. Physics and Astronomy (410) 516-7204 VOICE (410) 516-7239 FAX |
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