Hugh Spikes

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.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference gs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  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. ^ "Professor Hugh Spikes". Imperial College. Retrieved 19 October 2017.