Frontiers of Tribological Research Workshop; Fall, 2004

该提案寻求资金支持一个由摩擦学界顶尖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。基础研究经费的不断变化，新的实验、模拟和建模工具的发展，以及依赖于先进摩擦学性能的新技术的迅速出现，共同为拟议的研讨会提供了动力。该计划将集中讨论中心主题，新材料的作用，以及环境的影响或背景。建议的讨论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，包括空间环境和高温，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，新型摩擦学行为的表面结构修饰，陶瓷，生物材料，自修复/自适应材料，纳米材料和用于摩擦学应用的超低摩擦材料的发展。该研讨会将于2004年初秋举行，为期两天，由休斯敦大学的Scott S. Perry教授和威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校的Wilfred T. Tysoe教授组织和主持。拟议的讲习班将有大约20名来自不同学科并在若干不同领域拥有经验的科学家和工程师参加。只有获得邀请才能参加研讨会。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，从而确保广泛传播讲习班的主要主题和得出的结论。

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.