Awards

Ken Ludema Best Paper Awards

1st Place
Correlation of micromechanical property and microstructure of tribo-layers
Jiahui Qi, Mingwen Bai, Beverley Inkson and William Rainforth
The University of Sheffield, UK

Joint 2nd place
Importance of contact geometry for experimental tribological research of austenitic cast iron
at high temperatures

Tobias König , Ziping Sang, Philipp Daum, Dominik Kürten, Andreas Kailer and Martin Dienwiebel
Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

And

Scenario for the formation of fretting obtained TTS in TA6V from detailed microstructural analysis 
Vivien Lefranc, Camille Gandiolle, Maxime Vallet, Julie Bourgon, Eva Héripré, Siegfried Fouvry, Véronique Aubin
Université Paris-Saclay, Centrale Supélec, ENS Paris-Saclay, LMPS - Laboratory of Mechanics Paris-Saclay, France

3rd Place
Alumina/metal tribopairs: Which is the wearing element under tribocorrosion conditions? 
Anna Igual Muñoz, Alba Dalmau and Stefano Mischler
EPFL, Switzerland

 

Peter J. Blau Best Poster Award

1st Place
Oxide layer friction reduction and wear resistance in anodized aluminium alloys:
influence of alloy composition and anodizing current 

Mohamed Abid (presenter), Mohamed Chamseddine Chniti and Karl Delbe
Laboratory of Production Engineering, UTTOP, University of Toulouse

 2nd Place
A multi-technique approach to gear wear monitoring and fault diagnostics
Aida Daiman (presenter), Zhongxiao Peng, Zhan Yie Chin and Wade Smith
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW Australia

3rd Place
Dynamic interactions of surface wear and tooth crack in gear transmission systems:
an investigation of progressive-degradation mechanisms

Key Laboratory of Education Ministry for Modern Design and Rotor-Bearing System,
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

 

Audience Choice Best Poster Award

Harmonized tribo-testing in hydrogen 
Mirco Kröll (presenter), Marin Herr, Markus Varga, Géraldine Theiler and Dirk Spaltmann
BAM Germany and AC2T research GmbH, Austria

And

Effect of varying speed on the mechanical behaviour of the modified surface of low carbon steel
Sachin Balbande (presenter) and Sourav Das
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

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