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Newsletter, June 2014Introducing the SAIT
Executive Committee for 2014-2015
On Tuesday evening, 13 May 2014, at the Annual General Meeting of the SAIT, the following members were elected to the Executive Committee for the period 2014-2015:
Thomas Surmon, SAIT President 2014/15
Thomas Surmon President
Patrick Swan Vice President
David Beard Treasurer
Johnstone Chikwanda
Neels Coetzer
Johan de Koker
Dave Gamble
Doug Herschell
Shawn Pharo
And Gill Fuller Secretary
Patrick Swan, SAIT Vice-President 2014/15
We congratulate them, welcome them and wish them a productive and positive year in office.
SAIT Programme 2014 25 – 29 August 2014: 5-day Lubrication Engineering Course (91) - Breakwater Lodge, V&A Waterfront, Cape
Town. This course is registered with ECSA, SAIMM No. 00663, and is awarded five CPD
credits. We are undersubscribed for this course – please book now. If no further bookings are received, it will have to be cancelled.
15 – 19 September 2014: 5-day Lubrication Engineering Course (92) - Science Park, 1 Northway off Marlboro
Drive, Kelvin, Sandton, Johannesburg. This course is registered with ECSA, SAIMM No. 00664, and is awarded five CPD credits.
Please note – this course is fully booked.
12 August 2014: Afternoon Seminar, ‘Tribological Materials’ – call for papers: The SAIT will present an afternoon
seminar on “Tribological Materials“, at Science Park, Northway, Kelvin on 12 August 2014. We are inviting interested persons to submit papers for this event. The seminar is intended
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to bring together all parties interested in this important and topical subject.
With the continuing focus on cost cutting, longer asset lives and better efficiencies, many companies are looking for innovative materials that can complement or even replace the lubricants currently in use. Recent advances and traditional materials can all contribute towards an improved maintenance strategy.
Guidelines for Speakers: Authors are invited to submit papers or case study material on topics that are informative and current. The following subjects are a guideline only for the day’s programme. Any other suggestions, ideas or topics that could be associated with the subject, will be welcome:
Ultra-Lightweight Metal Materials
Materials
Materials design and use as an alternative to lubrication
Solid lubricants
Why surfaces and materials structures are important in lubricated components
Innovative use of materials in tribology
Coatings and other surface modification methods
Non-metallic materials that can reduce wear: rubber, polymers, ceramics, etc
Case studies or failure investigations of materials in tribological use
Please send a brief synopsis, and short title, of your proposed presentation or case study for approval, maximum 500 words, to the SAIT, email [email protected], [email protected] or fax to 086 719-2261 as soon as possible. We would like to circulate
the programme to a large target market to ensure a good attendance. Please include title, author and affiliation, and your contact details. The full paper, presentation or case study is required by 31
st July 2014.
The seminar is not a selling platform. Product promotional material or sales orientated videos should not be included in the presentations unless modified to provide only technical aspects.
For any enquiries regarding the technical nature of the seminar please contact David Beard on 082 850-3205, and for general enquiries phone Gill or Isabel at 011 804-3710
14 October 2014: Afternoon Seminar, ‘Hydraulics’ - call for papers:
The SAIT will present an afternoon seminar on “Hydraulics“, at Science Park, Northway, Kelvin on 14 October 2014. We are inviting interested persons to submit papers for this event. The seminar is intended to bring together all parties interested in this important and topical subject.
With the continuing focus on cost cutting, longer asset lives and better efficiencies, many companies should be seeking high performing, high efficiency anti wear hydraulic circulating fluids.
Guidelines for Speakers:
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Authors are invited to submit papers or case study material on topics that are informative and current. The following subjects are a guideline only for the day’s programme. Any other suggestions, ideas or topics that could be associated with the subject, will be welcome:
Improved hydraulic pump operation
OEM specifications and test requirements
System & component design
Base oils & additives.
Effective sampling techniques for oil analysis programs,
Filtration and maintenance.
Failure analysis.
Ashless fluids vs Zinc based.
Used oil recovery and recycle.
Please send a brief synopsis, and short title, of your proposed presentation or case study for approval, maximum 500 words, to the SAIT, email [email protected], [email protected] or fax to 086 719-2261 as soon as possible. We would like to circulate the programme early to a large target market to ensure a good attendance. Please include title, author and affiliation, and your contact details. The full paper, presentation or case study is required by 3
rd September 2014.
The seminar is not a selling platform. Product promotional material or sales orientated videos should not be included in the presentations unless modified to provide only technical aspects.
For any enquiries regarding the technical nature of the seminar please contact Shawn Pharo on mobile +27 82 856-2100, and for general enquiries phone Gill or Isabel at 011 804-3710.
Proposed: 20 – 24 October 2014: 5-day Lubrication Engineering Course (93) – Science Park, 1 Northway off
Marlboro Drive, Kelvin, Sandton, Johannesburg. This proposed course will presented in October, depending on demand, and will be registered with ECSA, SAIMM No.
pending, and will be awarded CPD credits. If you wish to attend this course, please
contact Gill or Isabel at 011 804-3710, or email either [email protected] or [email protected].
19 & 20 November 2014: SAIT CLS Study Course – Science Park, 1
Northway, off Marlboro Drive, Kelvin, Sandton, Johannesburg. For those wishing to write the STLE CLS exam, attendance of this course is strongly advised, especially bearing in mind the imperial measurements that are used and the focus on steel industry lubrication. The course will be facilitated by a current CLS holder, and study modules can be made available before the course dates, if needed. The STLE exam standard is high and the pass mark is 70%. Global pass rates are around 50%.
21 November 2014: STLE - CLS, OMA & CMFS exams – Science Park, 1 Northway off
Marlboro Drive, Kelvin, Sandton, Johannesburg.
Course Attendance:
We ask that, should a delegate not be able to attend a course for which they have registered, they let us know as soon as possible, so that we can accommodate people from the waiting list. Delegates can phone either Gill or Isabel at 011 804-3710, or e-mail Gill at [email protected] or Isabel at [email protected]. We will be happy to carry your registration forward to a future course at no further cost.
For further details of all the above, please contact Gill or Isabel at 011 804-3710 or e-mail either [email protected] or [email protected]
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Report-back – Lubrication
Engineering 89. This course was held in Durban, in mild late-autumn weather, from 19 to 23 May 2014.
Of the attendees, four achieved distinctions in the exam – over 75%: hearty congratulations on their achievement go to Warren Dundas-Starr, Avinesh Govender, Siseho Lishomwa and Monica Louw.
Nicholas Kapolobwe, Sibusiso Motubane, Jonah Chingwali, Michael Gondwe, Harry Feris, Glenys Lyn Meintjies, Muzi Mfeka, Khulekani Mavundla, Dumisani Mthembu and Yonah C. Nkurlu all passed.
We apologise that no photographs were taken during this course.
Report-back –Lubrication
Engineering 90: Twenty-four delegates attended this course which was held during the first extremely cold spell of this winter in Johannesburg, with night-time temperatures sinking below 0°C several times. This was the first group to use the new, revised, work books, on which they gave some valuable feedback. The work-book will be reviewed with the comments from Lubrication Engineering 90 borne in mind.
Most of the Delegates who attend LE 90
Eight delegates achieved Distinctions: Congratulations to Faiza Khan, Christiaan Strydom, Carlos Lu, Tinus Naude, Alicia Wilken, Yolanda Mbola, Tshireletso Matshitse and Thomas Nukeria. Fifteen members passed. Well done to all.
Hydraulics - Fit for a Queen
By Isabel Bradley, SAIT Assistant Secretary
During June 2014, Queen Elizabeth II of England rode to Whitehall for the Opening of Parliament in her new Diamond Jubilee Carriage. The carriage was an 80
th birthday
gift to the Queen by Australian Coachbuilder, W.J. Frecklington and was originally named the State Coach Britannia. Due to delays, it was delivered 8 years later than planned.
Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubiliee Carriage
The Queen’s new Diamond Jubilee Carriage is a tribological work of art, it contains historical artefacts that have been carved and polished to fit the carriage. Among these historically significant items are pieces of wood, taken from various sources including Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose and Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree. These form wooden tiles, polished
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to form part of the panelling on the inside doors.
The Interior of the Carriage, Showing The Wooden Tiles and Other Artefacts
A shard from The Stone of Destiny, which has been kept under the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey since its capture by Edward I of England in 1292, is displayed in a panel below the gold silk-covered seats, as are a bolt from a Spitfire, a musket ball from the battle of Waterloo and a fragment of a 617 Squadron Dambuster and various other fascinating items.
The Shard of the Stone of Destiny Under the Queen's Seat
The golden crown at the centre of the carriage’s roof is carved from oak taken off Nelson’s ship, HMS Victory and contains a ‘coachcam’ from which views of the crowds watching processions can be seen on the Queen’s Website.
The Crown, carved out of oak from the HMS Victory
The carriage has electric windows, lights and heaters – and six gold-plated hydraulic stabilizers, providing a smooth and gilded ride for its royal occupant.
See one of the Gilded Stabilizers Near Jim Frecklington's Right Hip.
The Oxford Dictionary offers, inter alia; ‘Hydraulics: liquid conveyed through pipes by pressure’, and ‘Hydraulic Press: a device in which the force applied to a fluid creates a pressure which when transmitted to a larger volume of fluid gives rise to a greater force’.. Such liquids are constantly in motion, flowing through tubes, pipes, flaps and wheels, and are therefore by definition a vast field of study within tribology. Fluids erode and corrode; they wear materials away and build up deposits on surfaces .
A stabiliser or shock-absorber, whether gold-plated or not, is a system that results in vehicle
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moving smoothly over a rough road: liquid-filled cylinders absorb the energy of the springs’ bounce, thus calming the momentum.
Berry School's Old Mill and Water Wheel, Floyd County, Georgia, USA
Throughout history, man has sought to control the flow of liquids, and to use the energy in liquid to move seemingly immovable objects. The water wheel in all its many forms has been used for raising water from low-lying rivers to irrigate higher lands, as well as for grinding flower, pounding fibres for weaving into materials, and crushing wood for manufacturing paper.
In China, waterwheels powered the bellows of blast-furnaces that produced cast iron.
The flow of the Niagara River, upstream of the Falls, has been diverted to power huge turbines, generating electricity for large parts of Ontario, Canada and New York State, USA. This source of power was first used in 1759 when settler Daniel Jocaire built a small canal branching off the river to power a sawmill.
A Diagram of Niagara Falls and the Tunnels Diverting the flow to the Generating Stations.
Hydraulic engineering has been used to remove excess water from mines and leaking ships since the days of Ancient Greece, as early as 300 BC.
The Archimedes Screw
Archimedes
Archimedes is said to have invented the water screw, now known as the Archimedes Screw, during the 3
rd Century
BC. His is more complex than the
version attributed to an Assyrian king,
Sennacherib (704 - 681BC), approximately 350
earlier.
Since Archimedes’ time, the water screw has been used to move water to irrigation ditches, and to drain land under the sea in the Netherlands and for many other purposes. It was used in 2001 in the successful stabilisation of the Leaning Tower of Pisa by
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British soils Engineer John Burland. The screw is used in sewage treatment plants, snow blowers – and in chocolate fountains.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Ancient Romans developed many hydraulic systems: supplying public water via aqueducts, watermills for grinding or pounding, drainage of mines, and public and private plumbing. Under-floor heating was made possible by warming water and pumping it through pipes under the tiled floors of Roman villas
Roman Baths at Welwyn Gardens City, UK.
Braking systems in modern vehicles, hydraulic jacks that hold boot lids open or prop up a car while the wheel is being changed, shock absorbers, cooling systems – the uses of hydraulics are many and varied. Hydraulic fracturing of rocks, known as ‘fracking’, used in the search for natural gas and oil, is currently a controversial topic in South Africa and many other parts of the world.
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Even the human body employs hydraulic pumps and pressure systems to move blood, gases and other fluids between cells.
A Diagram of the Human Brain, showing the Central Aqueduct of Sylvius
Considering the ancient history behind them, it is fitting that the rolling museum of British history, the Queen’s new Diamond Jubiliee Carriage, is fitted with gold-plated hydraulic stabilizers.
The Queen and Prince Philip in the Royal Jubilee Carriage, 4 June 2014
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International Tribology Events:
LUBMAT 2014, 25 – 27 July 2014: a
conference and exhibition on Lubrication, Maintenance and Tribotechnology in the Hilton Manchester Deansgate Hotel, UK. For further information go to http://www.lubmat2014.org/.
7th International Colloquium: Micro-Tribology 2014, September 7-11, 2014 , Osieck-Warsaw. First Announcement And Call For Papers
Introduction: "Micro-Tribology 2014 is the
sixth in the series of International Interdisciplinary Colloquia on the Science and Technology of the micro/nanotribological systems. Following from the success of "Micro-Tribology 2012 (as well as 2009, 2005, 2001, 1997 and 1993) the colloquium will provide an opportunity to highlight recent developments and identify emerging and future areas of micro/nanotribology research.
Over the last decade, the field of
micro/nanotribology research has seen
considerable advances in the range of
disciplines. This will be reflected in "Micro-
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Tribology 2014 which will be of interest to all
micro/nanotribology researchers including
tribologists, physicists, chemists, material
scientists, micro/nano- and miniature system
engineers.
Format: In keeping with the style of "Micro-
Tribology' 2014, there will be an emphasis on
oral keynote-addresses and other
presentations combined with discussion
sessions.
Conference coverage
The colloquium will address a wide range of scientific topics in micro/nanotribology including:
* tribology of miniature and watch /clock
mechanisms, micromechatronic devices,
micro/nanoelectromechanical systems
(MEMS/NEMS), micro/nanorobots,
* tribology of magnetic recording head-media interfaces,
* atomic-scale tribological systems, molecular modelling and computer simulation,
* friction, wear, lubrication, barrier films
problems in various microdevices (including
electrical contacts),
* tribology of ultrathin coatings and ion-implanted surfaces,
* nanomechanics and tribology of nanoimprinting
* biomimicry useful in tribology
* tribometry: testing friction, wear and studies
of accompanying phenomena in micro/nano-
and in miniature systems,
* triboengineering in micro/ nano- and miniature systems.
* nanomechanics & nanotribology & adhesion
* friction and wear on nanoscale
* control of friction and adhesion: sonolubrication
* nanomechanical and nanotribological testing of MEMS/NEMS materials , ultrathin films
* etching effects on surface properties of MEMS/NEMS components
* tribological phenomena in nanopositioning
Official language: The official language of
the conference will be English.
For further information, please contact :
Zygmunt Rymuza [mailto:[email protected]]
X Anniversary International conference "Lubricants Russia 2014" - €1195*, 12-13 November 2014
and International conference "Greases Russia 2014" - €450*, 14 November 2014
Accompanying Exhibition: Standard Exhibition Booth (3x2m) - 2250 EUR*
To register please contact Elena Konstantinova or Anna Lisak +7 495 502-5433
or +7 495 778-9332, or e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
or visit our website: http://rpi-conferences.com
Second International Brazilian Conference on Tribology - TriboBr-
2014, 3 – 5 November 2014. The official language
of the Event is English. Venue:
Tancredo Neves Avenue, 6731, Caixa Postal 2039 CEP 85867-900, Foz do Iguaçu - Paraná – Brasil. Phone: +55 (45) 3576.7200 - Fax: +55 (45) 3576.7199 or go to www.pti.org.br
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INFORMATION: Phone: (55 11) 5534-4333 - Fax: (55 11) 5534-4330 PAPERS AND REGISTRATION: Margareth Nunes - ext. 124 - [email protected]
Thais Capeleto Custódio - ext. 136 - [email protected] or go to the website: http://www.abmbrasil.com.br/seminarios/tribologia/2014/general-information.asp
The 10th International Colloquium “Fuels” Conventional and Future Energy for Automobiles will take place
from 20 to 22 January 2015 in Stuttgart / Ostfildern. We have extend the deadline for submission of papers to 30 June 2014. Current
information and online submission of papers at www.tae.de/fuels.
Tribology 2015: 11th International Tribology Conference, presented by The South African Institute
of Tribology, 10-12 March 2015 at the University of Pretoria Conference Centre Pretoria South Africa. For information about presentation of papers, sponsorship, exhibition and registration, contact Gill or Isabel at +27 11 804-3710 or e-mail [email protected] or admin@sait.
