Hugh Spikes

FREng FIMechE
Born
Hugh Alexander Spikes
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
Imperial College London (PhD)
AwardsSTLE International Award (2004)

IMechE Tribology Gold Medal (2004)

ASME Mayo D. Hersey Award (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsTribology[1]
InstitutionsImperial College London
ThesisPhysical and chemical adsorption in boundary lubrication (1972)
Doctoral advisorAlastair Cameron
Doctoral studentsMaggie Aderin-Pocock[2]
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/h.spikes

Hugh Alexander Spikes FREng FIMechE CEng is a British mechanical engineer. He is emeritus professor of tribology at Imperial College London.[3] He is the former head of the Tribology Group at Imperial College. Tribology is the science and engineering of friction, lubrication and wear.

Early life and education

Spikes was born in 1945.[4] He studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1968.[5] He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy for research in tribology from Imperial College London in 1972.[6] His PhD research was performed under the supervision of Professor Alastair Cameron.[6]

Research and career

Spikes has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers and patents in the field of tribology, spanning many aspects of liquid lubricant behaviour ranging from boundary to hydrodynamic lubrication.[3] Another focus of his research has been lubricant additives, particularly antiwear additives[7] and friction modifiers.[8] As of September 2021, Spikes' work had been cited on more than 17,500 occasions and he had a h-index of 74 and an i10-index of 262 (Google Scholar).[1] He is a member of the Distinguished Advisory Board for the International Tribology Council.[9] He is Editor Emeritus for the Wiley journal Lubrication Science[10] and he is a member of the editorial board of the Springer Nature journals Tribology Letters[11] and Friction.[12]

Spikes was the Head of the Tribology Group at Imperial College,[3] he was succeeded in this role by Professor Daniele Dini.[13]

Honours and awards

In 2004, Spikes was awarded the three major medals that are bestowed internationally for contributions to tribology, the International Award of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE),[14] the Mayo D. Hersey Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME),[15] and the Tribology Trust Gold Medal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).[16] With his research students, he has also received ten best paper awards, from the STLE, the ASME and the IMechE. In 2019, he received The Tribochemistry Award from the Japanese Society of Tribologists.[17]

In 2012, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).[18] He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE), a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Fellow of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b Hugh Spikes publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Aderin, Margaret Ebunoluwa (1995). Interferometric Studies of Very Thin Lubricant Films in Concentrated Contacts. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC 940348526. Copac 29536860.
  3. ^ a b c "Professor Hugh Spikes". Imperial College. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Slick research". Evolution. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Fifty years of tribology". University of Cambridge Department of Engineering. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  6. ^ a b Spikes, Hugh Alexander (1972). Physical and chemical adsorption in boundary lubrication. imperial.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. hdl:10044/1/20269. OCLC 556510123. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.295737. Free access icon
  7. ^ Spikes, H. (2004). "The History and Mechanisms of ZDDP". Tribology Letters. 17 (3): 469–489. doi:10.1023/B:TRIL.0000044495.26882.b5. ISSN 1023-8883. S2CID 7163944.
  8. ^ Spikes, Hugh (2015). "Friction Modifier Additives" (PDF). Tribology Letters. 60 (1): 5. doi:10.1007/s11249-015-0589-z. hdl:10044/1/25879. ISSN 1023-8883. S2CID 137884697.
  9. ^ "Distinguished Advisory Board - About ITC - ITC". itctribology.net. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  10. ^ "Lubrication Science". Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)1557-6833. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  11. ^ "Tribology Letters". Springer. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  12. ^ "Friction". Springer. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  13. ^ "Home - Professor Daniele Dini". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  14. ^ "International Award | STLE". www.stle.org. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  15. ^ "Mayo D. Hersey Award". www.asme.org. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  16. ^ "IMechE Tribology Gold Medal Laureates | Institution of Mechanical Engineers". www.imeche.org. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  17. ^ "The Tribochemistry Award Laureates for 2019｜一般社団法人 日本トライボロジー学会". www.tribology.jp. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  18. ^ Colin Smith (20 July 2012). "New Imperial Fellows announced". Imperial News. Imperial College. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  19. ^ "Honours and Memberships - Professor Hugh Spikes". Imperial College. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
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