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BUSINESS Human capital g…/… Developing French/India academic cooperation student exchanges and the mobility of teaching staff on both sides. A notable one is with the Indian Institutes of Technology New Delhi, Kanpur, and Roorkee. Other GEM partners are the University of Pune, the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), and the Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT). Among other things, these educational partnerships give Indian Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) students a chance to earn a French engineering degree (Master’s level) through a two-year study programme in one of the seven Ecoles des Mines. Several other cooperation schemes have been established in the field of R&D for industrial applications. In the field of composite materials, for example, the Department of Polymers and Composites Technology & Mechanical Engineering at the Ecole des Mines de Douai (EMD) and the Indian Institute of Technology of Delhi have undertaken two joint activities. Centre for Industrial Tribology, Machine Dynamics & Maintenance Engineering (ITMMEC) and Centre for Polymer Science & Engineering (CPSE), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India ITMMEC bridges the gap between IIT and industry in the fields of friction and wear studies, lubrication and lubricants, non-destructive testing, reliability, failure analysis, and vibration and noise engineering. It offers modern facilities with a six-member staff for experimental, analytical and developmental research activities. CPSE is one of the foremost in India in terms of expertise and facilities for fundamental research and teaching in the emerging area of polymers and other related interdisciplinary areas. The Centre’s main focus areas are manpower development and research for enhancing fundamental knowledge and developing new polymer materials. CPSE’s research activities and six-member staff cover polymer synthesis, physical characterisation, processing and thermo-mechanical testing. www.iitd.ernet.in/center/itmmec/ and www.iitd.ernet.in/center/cpse/ Delhi and the nearby institutes. We need expertise for modelling and correlating wear performance with fatigue strength, and such an expertise is not available within the The first one involves Professor Jayashree group that works on polymer tribology at Bijwe from IIT Delhi’s Centre for Industrial ITMMEC. This is important because, Tribology, Machine Dynamics & although the selected sliding conditions are Maintenance Engineering, and EMD’s conducive for adhesive or fretting wear of Assistant Professor Stéphane Panier in the composites, fatigue wear definitely takes co-supervision of PhD research on the place simultaneously if the component is fatigue and wear mechanisms of fabricslid for long time. Since fatigue strength reinforced composites. The goal is to correlates with fatigue wear, this can be establish a correlation between the fatigue incorporated in the wear equation to get a strength and wear resistance of customrealistic representation of total wear”. The formulated high-performance composite fatigue tests will be performed at EMD and materials developed and manufactured at the wear investigations at IIT Delhi. IIT Delhi. Professor Bijwe points out some According to S. Panier, such cooperation key scientific and technical issues: “At stems from the fact that “tribology is a present, we don’t have the necessary multi-physical science requiring in-depth facilities to test the fatigue strength of biknowledge of various domains. Similarly, directionally reinforced composites in IIT composite damage is complex to study. The ultimate failure of composite materials results from interactions between different types of damage occurring at From left to right: Dr. N. Bhatnagar (IIT D), Prof. J. Bijwe (IIT D), Prof. P. Krawczak (EMD), Rashmi Baralu (EMD, PhD student), Dr. E. Lafranche (EMD), Senthil Kumar Krishnamoorthy different scales (EMD, post-doctoral fellow), Dr. S. Panier (EMD) (micro to macro), hence the necessity to bring together the skills of our two institutes”. The second activity involves Professor Bijwe and Professor Anup K. Ghosh from IIT Delhi’s Centre for Polymer Science & Engineering, working with EMD’s Assistant Professor J. Soulestin and Professor Marie-France Lacrampe in a cooperation scheme that is part of a Master’s student’s project on thermoplastic nanocomposites. The research work is divided between India and France. Compounding equipment for thermoplastic nanocomposites at EMD, France Exchange programmes In keeping with the above-mentioned activities, upcoming goals are to increase both the number of joint R&D projects and their scope, and to involve French and Indian industrial partners. A French-Indian GEM-IITD seminar will be organised in New Delhi on September 24-26, 2008 for this purpose. More information: www.ensm-douai.fr panier@ensm-douai.fr JEC Composites Magazine / No43 September 2008

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