Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Opening Address: Tribology - Historical and Technological Perspectives
- In
- International Tribology Conference 1987, Melbourne, Dec 1987. Preprint of papers
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 1987, pp. i-ii
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0858253593
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.435023387178361
- Description
National Conference Publication (IEAust) 87/18
- Abstract
It is now twenty-one years since the Jost Report on 'Lubrication (Tribology) Education and Research' was published and a little over a century since the most famous paper on lubrication (Osborne Reynolds, 1886) appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Society. The tide of interest in Tribology has ebbed and flowed throughout the 20th century and it is timely to review progress, to identify new directions and to focus attention on some remaining deficiencies. It is concluded that satisfactory developments in tribology education, training, research and the dissemination of knowledge will not be achieved without adequate coordination of the roles of government laboratories, industry and the universities in industrial nations.