Tribosonics Ltd

Welcome to Tribosonics Ltd

Thin layers, both solid and liquid, are found in many places both in nature and in engineering. These thin layers provide a range of functions, primarily in lubrication, but also in thermal cooling, component separation and bonding. Understanding these layers, particularly their thickness, is crucial to better design and reliability. Often these layers are inaccessible, squashed between two other components and are remarkably difficult to measure.
Tribosonics Ltd is the world leader in measuring these layers in a huge range of applications.

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‘Tribosonics’

The name Tribosonics comes from the combination of Tribology and Ultrasonics. Tribology is the study of friction, wear and lubrication and comes from the Greek ‘tribos’ meaning rubbing. Ultrasonic techniques have been used for many years as a non-destructive technique for analysing and monitoring mechanical components. Tribosonics is the combination of these areas of engineering to develop a set of powerful techniques for monitoring, measuring and investigating a wide range of real world engineering applications.

News

Institution of Engineering and Technology, Sir Henry Royce Award

Phil Harper, Director of Tribosonics Ltd, has recently won the Sir Henry Royce Award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) for 2007. This prestigious award is given to a 'young engineering or IT professional who has shown excellence in the previous year in their work in industry or for the profession'. Phil won this award for his contribution to engineering through his work on measuring fluid film thickness.

http://www.theiet.org/

National Instruments LabVIEW Qualification

Phil Harper has recently become a Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer. Tribosonics Ltd uses LabVIEW for a range of instrument control, signal processing and simulation applications.

Institution of Mechanical Engineering, Tribology Trust Bronze Medal

Phil Harper, Director of Tribosonics Ltd, has jointly won the Tribology Trust Bronze Medal for 2006. The Bronze medal is awarded to researchers in an early stage of their career, normally under the age of 30, who have made a significant contribution to the field of Tribology. This year, due to the exceptionally high standard of applicants, the Tribology Trust decided to award two Tribology Trust Bronze medals, one of which went to Phil Harper for his work on the measurement of fluid film thickness.

http://www.imeche.org.uk/

Royal Academy of Engineering, ERA Foundation Award

A unique sensor technology that can monitor and predict the failure of mechanical seals has won University of Sheffield research assistant Phil Harper the inaugural £40,000 ERA Foundation Award from The Royal Academy of Engineering.

The Award has been established to identify entrepreneurial researchers working in UK universities in the field of electro-technology who are at an early stage in their career and who demonstrate both considerable entrepreneurial promise and the potential to benefit the UK's future prosperity.

http://www.raeng.org.uk