Newly appointed or newly promoted professors at Imperial College are required to give an inaugural lecture on a subject of their choosing. The professors inevitably talk about areas of their subject on which they are expert, but the lectures are presented in such a way that they appeal to a wide ranging audience, from those who have little knowledge of the subject to those who

  
\tPreface



\tProfessor B.J.Briscoe



\tSlippery Customers; Sticky Problems



\t1.Interface Engineering——The Scope



\t1.1.Adhesion



\t1.2 Friction



\t1.3.Lubrication



\t1.4.Damage



\t1.5.Wear



\t2.Historical Contexts



\t3.Principles of Interpretation



\t3.1.The adhesion model of friction



\t3.2.The deformation models



\t3.3.Other processes



\t4.Tribological Interfaces; Some Examples



\t5.Interfaces in Assemblies



\t6.Solid Processing and Production Engineering; Frictional Walls



\t7.Final Reflection



\t8.Challenges for the Future



\t9.Personal Remarks



\tAcknowledgements



\tReferences



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\tProfessor A.J.Kinloch



\tSticking up for Adhesives



\t1.Introduction



\t2.Interfa Contact and Intrinsic Adhesion



\t2.1.Introduction



\t2.2.Mechanisms of intrinsic adhesion



\t2.3.The bonding of fibre-cor0posite materials



\t2.4.The use of organometallic primers



\t3.Hardening the Adhesive



\t3.1.Introduction



\t3.2.Chemical aspects



\t3.3.Multiphase adhesives



\t4.Predicting the Strength and Service Life of Adhesive Joints



\t4.1.Introduction



\t4.2.The fatigue behaviour of adhesive joints



\t5.Conclusions



\tAcknowledgements



\tBibliography



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\tProfessor D.B.Holt



\tMagical Materials for Motionless Machines



\t1.Introduction



\t1.1.Half the story of materials



\t1.2.The other half of the materials story



\t2.Grain Boundary Electroluminescence in GaP



\t3.Scanning Electron Microscope Electron Beam Induced



\tCurrent （EBIC） and Cathodoluminescence （CL）



\t3.1.Monte Carlo electron trajectory simulations



\t3.2.Applications of scanning electron microscopy to optoelectronic devices



\t4.Scanning Electron Microscope Characterisation of Quantum Confined Structures



\t5.Magical Materials for Motionless Machines



\tAcknowledgements



\tReferences



\t



\tProfessor Alan Atkinson



\tInterfaces in Materials- If You Can't Beat Them,



\tJoin Them



\t1.Introduction



\t2.Grain Boundaries- Historical Development



\t2.1.Early metallography



\t2.2.The twentieth century



\t3.Oxide Grain Boundaries and High Temperature



\tCorrosion of Metals



\t4.Interfaces between Two Different Solids



\t4.1.Oxide layers on metals



\t4.2.Interfaces in composites



\t4.3.Epitaxial interfaces between semiconductors



\t5.Interfaces between Solids and Liquids



\t5.1.Processing ceramics



\t5.2.High strength cements



\t5.Future Opportunities and Concluding Remarks



\tAcknowledgements



\tReferences



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\tProfessor Rees D.Rawlings



\tBrittleness- A Tough Problem



\t1.Introduction



\t2.Deformation of Metals



\t3.Ceramic Components and Fibres



\t4.Composites



\t5.Ceramic Matrix Composites



\t6.Metal Matrix Composites and Functionally Graded Materials



\t7.Listening to Cracks



\tAcknowledgements



\tReferences



\tContents



\t



\tProfessor Larry L.Hench



\tThe Story of Bioglass: From Concept to Clinic



\t1.The Beginning



\t2.The Problem



\t3.The Concept: Bioactive Bonding



\t4.Bioactive Glasses



\t5.Four Paths of Development



\t6.Bioactive Composites



\t7.Molecular Tailoring of Surface Chemistry



\t8.Conclusions



\tAcknowledgements



\tReferences



\tIndex

    
\tFinally,wear iS a process which most of US would be familiar with where， through the action of sliding forces and the subsequent damage，mechanical erosion or chemical degradation of the solid bodies occurs.It iS a frustrating and an expensive process and many of US spend a significant amount of our income and resources repairing the consequences of such damage.For my own part，the most significant damage will be the replacement of my clothes， my shoes，my automobile engines or my automobile tyres.We can think of other examples.


    
\tSo.the remit within the interface engineering context has many leveis of requirement.At simple level，it might be to.optimise the processing of a solid or the rheology of a paint suspension.15 At a more diverse level.it could be to optimise the behaviour of a fabric conditioner or a hair conditioner or at a later stage perhaps wondering about our ability to minimise the wear and improve the friction of,say.automobile tyres.18 The remainder of the paper will be divided into four or five general parts in order to exemplify the progression of my own interest in what I believe has been the way that this subject has developed in the last 30 years.The following section will deal with what I consider to be the very interesting historical context.The next section will describe some of the rudiments of the principles available for interpreting interface engineering problems.Two major sections will foliow these.the first one being some examples of the 1 tribology heritage in a classical sense of interfaces to cover such things as transport，cosmetics，ballistics.This iS complemented by another section which deals with some facets of the inteffaces within assemblies and the consequences upon the rheological response or processing behaviour of these materials.The finaI maior section will deal with the topic of frictional walls and the consequence of interfaces in some aspects of the processing of fsolids，in the main starches and ceramic pastes.Finally.


    
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