COURSE SCHEDULE

* Chief Guest, Dr. R. Mahadevan Director, India Pistons Limited, Chennai - Deliver the Inaugural talk

  DATE   08:30 - 09:45 09:45 - 10:00 10:00 - 11:15 11:15 - 12:30 12:30 - 14:00 14:00 - 15:15 15:15 - 15:30 15:30 - 16:45
Nov 7th Registration : 8.30 - 9.00 am
Inauguration : 9.00 - 9.30 am
Tea break : 9.30 - 9.45 am
Chief Guest Talk* : 9.45 - 10.45 am
Overview of the Course :SES & PR Lunch Basics of Tribology -- PR Tea Friction of Materials -- PR
Nov 8th Contact Mechanics -- MMM Tea Materials -- Wear Mechanisms -- PR Lunch Surface Engineering and Characterisation -- MK Tea Polymer Tribology -- RG
Nov 9th Rolling Element Bearings -- PS Tea Tribology in Manufacturing of surfaces -- SS Role of Corrosion in Tribology -- RCB Lunch Lubrication and Lubricant Selection -Chemistry of Lubricants and Additives -- PR Tea Fluid Flim Bearings Part - 1 -- SES
Nov 10th Fluid Flim Bearings Part - 2 -- SES Tea Failure Mechanisms -- MMM Rotor Dynamics and Bearing influences on machine dynamics -- SES Lunch Tribology Testing and Measurements -- PR Tea MDS - LAB
Nov 11th Smart Fluids in Tribo elements -- SES Tea Condition Monitoring of Tribo Systems -- PR Space Tribology -- Savio S Lunch Prognostic / Maintenance of Tribological Systems -- PS Tea Tribology in Machine Elements/Reliability in Design -- RT
Nov 12th Tribology in Medical Fields -- RT Tea Engine Tribology -- MRS DISCUSSION on Recent Trends in Tribology - SES & PR Lunch Informal discussion/ feedback
Valedictory/Course adjournment

SES - Prof. A. Seshadri Sekhar
PR - Dr. P. Ramkumar
MMM - Prof. M. M. Mayuram
MK - Prof. M. Kamaraj
RG - Prof. R. Gnanamoorthy
RT - Prof. Ram Turaga
SS - Dr. Sathyan Subbiah
PS - Dr. Piyush Shakya
RCB - Dr. Rakesh Chandra Barik
Savio S - Dr. Savio Sebastian
MRS - Dr. M. R. Sridhar

Venue for classes: Seminar Hall (MDS 412), Machine Design Section, Mechnical Engineering. Department, IITM.