| No.
|
Dates
|
Project
|
Collaborators
and sponsors * |
Grant (GBP)
|
| 11 |
2007-2008 |
Jacob Wallenberg Foundation
grant on research in materials science
|
Jacob
Wallenberg Foundation (Sweden)
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering
Sciences (Sweden)
|
7,400 |
| 10 |
2005-2007 |
FOREMOST:
Fullerene-based opportunities for robust engineering: Making
optimised surfaces for tribology. Work packages 2.2
(Tribological mapping of rolling contacts) and 2.4 (Tribological
mapping of fretting contacts)
|
European Union plus a consortium of 31 European companies
and Universities
|
209,000 |
| 9 |
2003-2004 |
Research
of fundamental sealing mechanisms needed for zero-leakage
high-reliability rotary vane actuators |
Busak+Shamban (Trelleborg Sealing
Solutions) (UK)
Smiths Aerospace Mechanical Systems (UK)
Department of Trade and
Industry (UK)
|
112,000 |
| 8 |
2000-2002 |
Traction
modelling for a toroidal CVT |
Torotrak (Development) Ltd
(UK)
Department of Trade and
Industry (UK)
IC Consultants Ltd (UK)
|
51,000 |
| 7 |
1999-2001 |
Determination
of polymeric sealing principles for end user high reliability |
Smiths Aerospace Actuation Systems -
Cheltenham (UK)
Smiths Aerospace Actuation Systems -
Wolverhampton (UK)
Polymer Sealing Solutions
Ltd (UK)
Department of Trade and
Industry (UK)
|
172,000 |
| 6 |
1998-1999 |
Development
of a contact fatigue model for Continuously Variable
Transmissions |
Torotrak (Development) Ltd
(UK)
Department of Trade and
Industry (UK)
|
83,500 |
| 5 |
1994-1999 |
Theoretical
modelling of the entrainment and thermomechanical effects of
contamination particles in elastohydrodynamic contacts |
Imperial College London -
Mech. Eng. Dept. (UK)
SKF Engineering
& Research Centre B.V. (The Netherlands)
|
|
| 4 |
1997-1998 |
A
study of lubrication mechanisms using 2-phase fluids with porous
bearing materials |
Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (UK)
|
46,551 |
| 3 |
1996 |
Particle
entrapment in an EHD contact of a ball rolling-sliding on a flat
surface |
SKF Engineering
& Research Centre B.V. (The Netherlands) |
1,000 |
| 2 |
1996 |
Trajectories
of particles in sliding contacts |
SKF Engineering
& Research Centre B.V. (The Netherlands) |
part of (3) |
| 1 |
1994 |
Elastohydrodynamic
lubrication and minimization of dynamic loading of spur gears |
National Technical University
of Athens (Greece) |
|
