VETOMAC-3 & ACSIM 2004

In a joint venture IIT Kanpur organized an international conference with the Australian Cooperative Research Centre on Integrated Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM).

Two conferences - VETOMAC (Vibration Engineering & Technology of Machinery) and ACSIM (Asia-Pacific Conference on System Integrity and Maintenance) were merged and Joint Sessions were planned in view of convergence in the discipline areas.

VETOMAC-3 was the third in a series of conferences being held biennially in India. ACSIM is an Asia-Pacific biennial international conference dealing with Asset Management and Maintenance related issues. ACSIM 2002 was held in Cairns, Australia while ACSIM 2000 was held at Nanjing, P.R.China.

This year, the joint event was held from December 6 -9 at Hotel Intercontinental The Grand, New Delhi.

Over 150 papers from all over the globe were presented in 39 technical sessions.

The inaugural session was addressed by Prof. S.G.Dhande, Director IIT Kanpur; Prof Martin Betts, Dean, BE & Engg, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane; Prof. Joe Mathew, CEO, Australian Cooperative Research Centre on Integrated Engineering Asset Management; Prof. J.S.Rao, President Vibration Institute of India and Prof. N.S.Vyas, IIT Kanpur.

The Plenary included four speakers: Dr. R.V.Perumal, Director, Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, Trivandrum - Vibration Problems in Launch Vehicles; Prof. V. Lakshmi Narasimhan, The University of Newcastle, Australia - The Present and Future IT Aspects of Integrated Engineering Asset Management; Australian Cooperative Research Centre on Integrated Engineering Asset Management; Prof.Sidahmed Menad, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Cedex, France - Cyclostationary Analysis: A New Tool for Rotating Machine Diagnostic; Dr.Kota Harinarayana, Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad - Advanced Composite Structures & Structural Health Monitoring.