GFPS New Board of Directors and Best Paper Awards at IFK11 2018

Announcement

We are pleased to announce the new board of directors of the Global Fluid Power Society for the years 2018-2022.

Andrew Plummer (Chair)

University of Bath, UK

Monika Ivantysynova

(Editor of the Int. Journal of Fluid Power)

Purdue University, USA

Andrea Vacca (Secretary and Treasurer)

Purdue University, USA

Rudolf Scheidl

J. Kepler University of Linz, Austria

Huayong Yang

Zhejiang University China

 

Congratulations and good luck to our new directors!


We are also pleased to announce that the fifth GFPS best paper award was awarded during the IFK 11 2018

The recipients of the GFPS best paper award @ IFK 2018 are

  • Maximilian Waerder*, Hubertus Murrenhoff* and Olaf Uszynski* for the paper “Psychoacoustic analysis of pneumatic switching valve noise "
  • Lizhi Shang** and Monika Ivantysynova** for the paper "Advanced heat transfer model for piston/cylinder interface"

Authors affiliation:*Institut für fluidtechnische Antriebe und Steuerungen der RWTH, Aachen, Germany; **Maha Fluid Power Research Center, Purdue University, Lafayette IN, USA