Symposium on Tribology: Understanding Friction, Lubrication and Wear Across the Scales; Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; October 4-8, 2010

该奖项的目的是为在摩擦学领域工作的美国研究人员提供部分旅行支持，让他们出席2010年第五届多尺度材料建模会议并在会议上作特邀演讲，该会议将于2010年10月4日至8日在德国弗莱堡举行。他们将在研讨会上展示他们的工作，题目是《摩擦学：了解摩擦、润滑和磨损的天平》。可交付成果包括研讨会的计划会议记录，这些会议记录将发表在《欧洲物理杂志》上。这次研讨会将形成一个独特的平台，将模型师和实验者团结在一起，讨论多尺度建模为所有类型的摩擦学问题提供的机遇和挑战。这将使该领域受益，因为宏观机器的性能由移动界面上的各种纳米级机械和化学过程控制。这使得摩擦学--研究相对运动中相互作用的表面的科学--本质上是多尺度的。因此，建模利用了完整的MMM工具箱，包括电子结构计算、分子动力学、介观粒子方法和连续介质力学，以便在所有长度尺度上研究潜在的化学、机械和流体过程。预期专题讨论会的独特重点是摩擦学的多尺度方面，这将增进对该领域的科学了解。

The objective of this award is to provide partial travel support for researchers from the United States working in the area of tribology to attend and give invited presentations at the Fifth Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling Conference 2010, which will be held in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, October 4-8, 2010. The title of the symposium in which they will present their work is "Tribology: Understanding Friction, Lubrication and Wear across the Scales." Deliverables include planned conference proceedings from the symposium that will be published in the European Physical Journal. This symposium will form a unique platform that unites modelers and experimentalists to discuss the opportunities and challenges multiscale modeling offers for all kind of tribological issues. This will benefit the field because the performance of macroscale machines is governed by a variety of nanoscale mechanical and chemical processes at moving interfaces. This makes tribology - the science of interacting surfaces in relative motion - inherently multiscale. Consequently, modeling utilizes the complete MMM toolbox including electronic structure calculations, molecular dynamics, mesoparticle methods and continuum mechanics in order to study the underlying chemical, mechanical and fluidic processes on all length scales. It is anticipated that the unique focus of the symposium on the multiscale aspects of tribology will enhance scientific understanding of the field.