Frontiers of Tribological Research Workshop; Fall, 2004

该提案寻求资金，以支持一个由摩擦学界领先的科学家和工程师参加的研讨会，旨在探索和确定基础摩擦学研究的未来领域。基础研究资金的不断变化，新的实验，模拟和建模工具的开发，以及依赖于先进摩擦学性能的新技术的快速出现，共同为拟议的研讨会提供了动力。 该计划将侧重于中心主题的讨论，新材料的作用，以及环境的影响或背景。建议讨论的领域包括运动界面能量耗散的基本机制，表面化学对摩擦学性能的影响，磨损机制和阻力，摩擦学事件的计算和模拟，极端小型化和纳米力学的影响，极端环境，包括太空环境和高温，生物相容性摩擦学系统的设计和性能，能源效率和能源安全，该研讨会将于2004年秋季初举行，为期两天，由Scott S.休斯顿大学的佩里和威尔弗雷德·T.威斯康星州密尔沃基大学的Tysoe说。拟议的讲习班将有大约20名科学家和工程师参加，他们来自不同学科，在若干不同领域拥有经验。只有应邀才能参加讲习班。 讲习班的组织者建议以立场文件的形式记录和出版讲习班讨论和辩论的结果，从而确保讲习班达成的主要主题和结论得到广泛传播。

This proposal seeks funds to support a workshop involving the tribological community's leading scientists and engineers, aimed at exploring and identifying future areas of fundamental tribological research. The changing landscape of fundamental research funding, the development of new experimental, simulation, and modeling tools, and the rapid emergence of new technologies relying upon advanced tribological performance together provide the impetus for the proposed workshop. The program will be focused on discussions of central themes, the role of new materials, and the influence or context of environment. Proposed areas of discussion include fundamental mechanisms of energy dissipation at moving interfaces, influence of surface chemistry on tribological performance, wear mechanisms and resistance, computation and simulation of tribological events, extreme miniaturization and the influence of nanomechanics, extreme environments including space environments and high temperatures, design and performance of biocompatible tribological systems, energy efficiency and energy security, surface structure modifications for novel tribological behavior, development of ceramics, biomaterials, self-healing/adaptive materials, nanomaterials, and ultralow-friction materials for tribological applications.The proposed workshop will take place over a two-day time period in early fall, 2004 and will be organized and run by Prof. Scott S. Perry of the University of Houston and Prof. Wilfred T. Tysoe of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. The proposed workshop will involve approximately 20 scientists and engineers from a range of disciplines and possessing experience in a number of different fields. Participation in the workshop will be by invitation only. The organizers of the workshop propose to document and publish the outcomes of the workshop discussion and debate in the form of a position paper, thus insuring the wide dissemination of the major themes and conclusions reached through the workshop.