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GFPS Best Paper Award at Asme-Bath FPMC 2017

Announcement

We are pleased to announce that the fourth GFPS best paper award was awarded during the ASME/BATH 2017 Symposium on Fluid Power and Motion Control 

The recipients of the GFPS best paper award @ ASME/BATH 2017 Symposium on Fluid Power and Motion Control are

 

R. Ivantysyn, A. Shorbagy and J. Weber for the paper “AN APPROACH TO VISUALIZE LIFETIME LIMITING FACTORS IN THE CYLINDER BLOCK/VALVE PLATE GAP IN AXIAL PISTON PUMPS"

 

Authors affiliation：Institute of Fluid Power, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GFPS Best Paper Award at JFPS 2017

Announcement

We are pleased to announce that the third GFPS best paper award was awarded during the 10TH JFPS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FLUID POWER ’17  

The recipient of the GFPS best paper award @ 10th JFPS 2017 is

 

Y. Miyaki and H. Tsukagoshi for the paper “Soft Simple Compact Valve Inducing Self-excited Vibration"

 

Authors affiliation：Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Tokyo Insitute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GFPS Best Paper Award at SICFP 2017

Announcement

We are pleased to announce that the second GFPS best paper award was awarded during the 15TH SCANDINAVIAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FLUID POWER SICFP’17​ – FLUID POWER IN THE DIGITAL AGE​

The recipient of the GFPS best paper award @ SICFP2017 is

 

A. Alexander and A. Vacca for the paper “Real-Time Parameter Setpoint Optimization for Electro-Hydraulic Traction Control Systems​"

 

Authors affiliation：Maha Fluid Power Research Center, Purdue University, Lafayette IN, USA

 

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GFPS Best Paper Award at JFPS 2017

GFPS will work with the JFPS2017 organizers to identify the recipient of the best paper award.

Award procedure: the conference organizer will select a number (up to 10) of papers candidate for the award, from the results of the paper review process already in place at the conference

  1. A GFPS delegation will review the manuscript and attend the presentation of each candidate paper
  2. The best paper will be selected on the basis of originality, rigorousness, and technical contents of the manuscript and quality of the presentation

The presenting author will receive a prize of $500 and a best certificate. The award will also appear in a proper section of the GFPS website.

For more information visit the JFPS website.

GFPS Meeting - June 8

The next GFPS meeting will take place during the SICFP 2017 conference in Linköping, Sweden.

The meeting is scheduled on Thursday, June 8, 3-4pm (room # to be announced)

The meeting is open to all GFPS participating institutions,

but we also welcome participants from other institutions (either academic or non-academic) which are interested in becoming future GFPS participants.

Meeting topics are: status of GFPS; GFPS boards; new GFPS participants; GFPS website; GFPS awards

If you would like to suggest a new topic for the meeting, please contact the GFPS Secretary of the Board: Andrea Vacca (avacca@purdue.edu)

In case you are not attending the SICFP 2017 Conference, you can still join the meeting online, using the following web-link:

https://purdue.webex.com/purdue/j.php?MTID=m0462e3abd15e39a2e3538a3de1bcd20b

 

Meeting minutes will be posted online (http://gfpsweb.org/?q=content/gfps-board-meetings) soon after the meeting

GFPS Best Paper Award at ICFP 2017

Announcement

We are pleased to announce that the first GFPS best paper award was awarded during the 9th International Conference on Fluid Power Transmission and Control (ICFP2017), April 11-13, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

The recipient of the GFPS best paper award @ ICFP2017 is

 

G. Lay and A.R. Plummer for the paper “A Morphing Tensegrity Structure with Distributed Pneumatic Actuation"

 

Authors affiliation：Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control，Department of Mechanical Engineering，University of Bath, UK

 

First GFPS best paper award at ICFP 2017

 

GFPS will work with the ICFP2017 organizers to identify the recipient of the best paper award.

Award procedure: the conference organizer will select a number (up to 10) of papers candidate for the award, from the results of the paper review process already in place at the conference

  1. A GFPS delegation will review the manuscript and attend the presentation of each candidate paper
  2. The best paper will be selected on the basis of originality, rigorousness, and technical contents of the manuscript and quality of the presentation

The presenting author will receive a prize of $500 and a best certificate. The award will also appear in a proper section of the GFPS website.

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Proceedings PTMC 2005/2006/2007 now available!

Heads up!

The proceedings of the Power Transmission and Motion Contol (PTMC) 2005/2006/2007 confereces are now available for download! You can find them in our publications repository! Do you need access to the repository? Submit your application now and become a GFPS participant! Click here.

JOIN GFPS

Join GFPS to become part of a worldwide network of institutions committed to promote the fluid power discipline.

Key reasons

  • Get access to a wide literature database of technical papers in various fields of fluid power. Currently there are more than 1,000 papers you can get access to after you become GFPS participant. Log in credentials will be given after your participation gets approved.
  • Stay informed on fluid power news and actively participate into the fluid power community. If you are a research institution, you will be able to post research highlights on the GFPS website. If you are a fluid power company. You will be able to post your openings into the GFPS webpage, which is frequently viewed by graduate and undergraduate students of all GPFS academic institutions.
  • Contribute in joining the Board and the Advisory Committee. Every participant will nominate an Advisory Committee member that will work with the Board for new initiatives to strengthen promotional activities for fluid power.
  • GFPS is a non-profit institution. The participation fees will be exclusively used for promotional activities, including student awards at fluid power conferences, and future student travel awards.

Want to join?

Your participation request will be reviewed by the current GFPS board. To be eligible, you must be:

  • An academic institution with both research and educational fluid power programs, or
  • A fluid power company willing to support GFPS initiatives, or
  • A fluid power organization

For academic and government institutions, the participation fee is USD 300 per year. For small institutions the fee is calculated as $70 x number of participating individuals.

For fluid power companies, organizations, the participation fee is USD 500 per year (an additional fee will be charged for every position posted).

 

To join, compile the webform here or download the text form and fill the required fields and send it to webmaster@gfpsweb.org.

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