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Congratulations to Patrick and Lai

TriPreM wishes to congratulate Patrick Lim Sheng Yi and Lai Wei Hang for placing 4th for the JACTIM Undergraduate Research Proposal Competition 2015.

The title of the proposal is “Development of High-temperature Tribotester”.

International Conference on Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (ICME 2015)

On 19th – 21st October 2015, Dr Jun Ishimatsu attended the International Conference on Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (ICME 2015), which took place  at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Johor. Dr Ishimatsu presented his research, titled “Thermal Effects of Ultrasonically Excited Grinding Fluid“.

The official website for the conference may be found by following this link.

Lecture on Fundamentals of Tribology, Penang Seagate

On 24th March 2015, Prof Dr Kanao Fukuda delivered a lecture on the Fundamentals of Tribology during his visit to Penang Seagate Industries (M) Sdn Bhd.

The lecture was one of the activities following the visit’s main purpose, which was to produce a report on the progress on the contracted research between TriPreM and Seagate.

International Tribology Conference 2015, Tokyo University of Science

International Tribology Conference 2015, Tokyo University of Science

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Conference name: International Tribology Conference 2015 (ITC 2015)

Date: 16th September 2015 – 20th September 2015

Venue: Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Prof. Dr. Kanao Fukuda presented a paper titled “Differences in Growth and Transfer of Adhesive Substance in Early Stage of Sliding between Austenitic Stainless Steel and Pure Cu” and chaired a session of “Fundamental of Tribology” at one of most prestigious conferences on tribology, International Tribology Conference (ITC) 2015 which was held at Tokyo University of Science, Japan from 16th till 20th September, 2015. The photograph shows Prof. Fukuda, Pro. Prakash of Luea University of Technology, Sweden, and Prof. Sasaki of Tokyo University of Science, Japan (from left to right).

Recent Achievements

Recent Achievements

As of November 2015, the following are the most recent achievements of Tribology and Precision Machining i-Kohza:

Grants

  1. Kanao Fukuda, Influence of atmosphere humidity on various tribological phenomena,” Research University Grant (RUG), Aug. 2015- Jul. 2017.

Award

  1. Sangeeth Suresh (PhD student supervised by Dr. Aung Lwin Moe), Best Paper Award for “Optimization of Electrode Material for EDM Die Sinking of Titanium Alloy Grade-5 Ti6A14V”, Science and Engineering Technology National Conference 2015, 26 to 27 October 2015, Bangi-Putrajaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

Published Journal Papers

  1. Kanao Fukuda, “Influences of a Hydrogen Environment on the Friction and Wear of Metallic Materials”, J. Japanese Society of Tribologists, 60, 10 (2015) 632-637. (ISSN: 0915-1168, SCOPUS SJR (2014) =0.110)
  2. Abdul Manaf, G. Ibragimov, M. R. Abu Bakar, “Utilization of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Method on the Survival Data of Leukemia Patients”, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 53, 6 (2015) 167-172. (ISSN: 0973-1377, SCOPUS SJR (2014) =0.118)
  3. Zaid Ali Subhi, Kanao Fukuda, Takehiro Morita and Joichi Sugimura, “Quantitative Estimation of Adsorbed Water Layer on Austenitic Stainless Steel,” Tribology Online, 10, 5 (2015) 314-319. (ISSN: 1881-218X, SCOPUS SJR(2014)=0.265)

Accepted Journal Paper

  1. Zaid Ali Subhi, Kanao Fukuda, Takehiro Morita and Joichi Sugimura, “Analysis on the Mechanism of Humidity to Influence the Very Early Stage of Sliding under Different Load” Tribology Online. (ISSN: 1881-218X, SCOPUS SJR(2014)=0.265)

For the full list of achievements, please visit the Achievements page.