Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Tribology - historical and technological perspectives
- In
- Transactions of The Institution of Engineers, Australia: Mechanical Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. ME14, no. 1, Institution of Engineers, Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 1989, pp. 1-2
- 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.