TOPIC: "TRIBOLOGY-MOTORING INTO THE 21ST CENTURY"

Co-Organizers: INTI Foundation, Akademi Sains Malaysia, and National Science Centre.

Date: 18 September 2004

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
The Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Chris Taylor, took up office at the University of Bradford in October 2001. By training, he is a Mechanical Engineer who graduated from the Universities of London and Leeds. He gained his initial employment experience with the English Electric Company based at Whetstone in Leicestershire, followed by a period as a Senior Engineering Consultant in an Industrial Unit of Tribology. He took up an academic appointment at the University of Leeds in 1971. He has published some 150 learned society papers and books, supervised over 50 research students and he has been recognised through a number of awards including the Tribology Silver Medal.
Chris Taylor is a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute of London. He is on the Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering and chairs one of their major membership panels.

Synopsis:
This Lecture will cover on the importance of lubrication, friction and wear in everyday life is as old as civilization itself. In 1996 the word 'tribology' was coined to characterize better the study of the area which embraces the science and technology of surfaces word was also designed to draw attention to the fact that considerable financial losses knowledge and the consequent premature of components in machinery.
In this lecture the speaker will review briefly some of the historical background to the discipline of tribology, including that associated with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The explosion of knowledge in the field in the last half-century will be examined with particular focus upon the automobile and the tribology associated with the major frictional components in the internal combustion engine-bearings, valve trains and pistons assemblies. As well as dealing with the engineering science of these machine elements, the implications for overall engine friction and the power consumption associated with the internal combustion engine will be addressed.

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