The IET Tribology Network have confirmed the first speaker for Thursday 16th March 2017 on 'Transport Challenges'
We are delighted to welcome back:
Professor Robert JK Wood FREng, Associate Dean of Research, Director of the UK National Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS).
About Robert:
Professor Robert Wood FREng is Professor of Surface Engineering and Tribology within Engineering Sciences of the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton and is Associate Dean (Research) for the Faculty. He has 30 years research experience in the field of tribology and surface engineering. He has spent several years at BP Research researching into erosion and corrosion resistant coatings but returned to Southampton in 1993 to re-establish surface engineering/tribology research. His group was awarded an EPSRC S&I award in 2008 (£10M) to create the National Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS) and was awarded a further £3M for research into Green Tribology under a platform Grant from EPSRC. The Centre has 8 academics, 8 postdoctoral research fellows and 30 research students and Professor Wood was its founder and director from 2008-2015. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in Sept 2016.
Professor Robert Wood has research interests in rain, cavitation and solid particle erosion, erosion-corrosion interactions and modelling; tribological and multifunctional coating design and performance, biomimetic coatings for anti-fouling; electrochemical control of interfacial friction; particle modelling in pipe bends by swirl dispersion of particles. He has been involved in working on erosion of helicopter blades, nuclear slurry handling systems at Sellafield, reverse thrust actuators on aero engines, polymer coatings for potable water systems as well as offshore choke valves. He has teaching experience in Surface Engineering, Tribological Engineering and Fluid Mechanics at Undergraduate and MSc level.
To hear Robert's presentation, plus more! Register for the event at: http://theiet.org/tribology-challenges
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Other speaker highlights:
Henry Begg
Christian Mitterer