SKF establishes a University Technology Centre with Imperial College London

SKF establishes a University Technology Centre with Imperial College London

SKF has signed a five-year contract with Imperial College London's Department of
Mechanical Engineering to set up the next SKF University Technology Centre on
tribology*.

The initial contract is for five years and will focus on research in the area of
modelling in simulation of tribological systems. The prime objective of the
cooperation is to further reduce friction and wear, and therefore extend the
associated service life and environmental performance of SKF products.

- The contract builds on the long relationship SKF has had with Imperial. The
research program will be focused on further enhancement of SKF's knowledge in
the field of tribology. This will further reinforce SKF's world leading position
in modelling bearing performance, says Dr Alan Begg, Senior Vice President of
Group Technology.

Leading the team at Imperial will be Professor Hugh Spikes, who is head of the
tribology research group and has published over two hundred refereed papers and
patents in the field of tribology.

- We are very excited to be formalizing our relationship with SKF in this way.
Not only will it help support our fundamental research work in tribology but it
should also ensure that this research is rapidly applied to real applications,
such as enabling rolling bearings, to operate with lower friction and thus lower
energy consumption, says Professor Spikes.

The objective will be reached by developing a detailed understanding of
lubricant chemistry, hydrodynamic and elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication, contact
mechanics, wear and surface fatigue, flanked by computational modelling and
theoretical studies.

The first University Technology Centre was established last year with the
University of Cambridge.

Gothenburg, 21 January 2010

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