Professor Steve Franklin

BSc PhD MInstP
Visiting Industrial Professor, Tribology and Human Tissue Interaction.
The University of Sheffield, Leonardo Centre of Tribology and Surface Technology,
Depts. of Engineering Materials and Mechanical Engineering.
Philips Applied Technologies, The Netherlands.

High Tech Campus 7
5656AE Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 6 226 84346
Email: s.e.franklin@philips.com

Steve Franklin is Chief Technologist in Tribology and Human Tissue Interaction at Philips Applied Technologies in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (www.apptech.philips.com). He has a B.Sc. in Physics and Materials Engineering from Sheffield Hallam University and a Ph.D. in Metallurgy from Loughborough University. After a short time as a lecturer in Materials Engineering at Loughborough University, Steve moved to the Netherlands to join Philips Electronics and since 1989 has worked at Philips Applied Technologies, a contract R&D organisation serving the whole of Philips and a number of companies outside of Philips. At Philips Applied Technologies, Steve manages the Tribology and Human Tissue Interaction teams, concentrating on applied research and product pre-development. Steve was appointed Visiting Industrial Professor in both the Engineering Materials and Mechanical Engineering departments at the University of Sheffield in November 2008, and is a member of the steering committee of the Leonardo Centre of Tribology and Surface Technology.

Research interests

Steve´s research interests centre on industrial applications of tribology in general, and on the tribology of human tissue including skin and eyes in particular. He is involved in many research and development projects, most of which are funded internally within Philips. One notable exception is TRIBIO (MTKI-CT-2006-042411, Skin tribology with compliant materials for medical and healthcare applications), an EU Marie-Curie project together with the University of Szczecin in Poland.

Key publications

• M. Kwiatkowska, S.E. Franklin, C.P. Hendriks, K. Kwiatkowski: “Friction and deformation behaviour of human skin”, to be published in Wear. DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2008.12.030.
• S.E. Franklin, Invited paper “Coating selection and tribological testing for engineering equipment applications”, Tribotest 14 (2008), 63-80.
• S.E.Franklin, Invited paper “From Wear Model Prediction to Real Life Failure”, in proc. Conf. STLE Annual Meeting, Cleveland, USA, 19-22 May, 2008.
• M. Kwiatkowska, S.E. Franklin, C.P. Hendriks, poster: “Simultaneous Measurement of Skin Deformation and Friction” in Proc. Conf. “Wear, Friction and Wear Protection”, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Metallkunde (DGM), Aachen, Germany, 9-11 April 2008.
• J. Baranowska, S.E. Franklin, Characterization of Gas-nitrided Austenitic Steel with an Amorphous/Nanocrystalline Top Layer, Wear 264 (2008), 899-903.
• A. Matthews, S.E. Franklin, K. Holmberg, Invited paper “Tribological Coatings: Contact Mechanisms and Selection”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40 (2007), 5463-5475.
• S.E. Franklin, J. Baranowska, Conditions affecting the sliding tribological performance of selected coatings for high vacuum bearing applications, Wear, 263 (2007), 1300-1305.
• J. Baranowska, S.E. Franklin, A. Kochmańska, Wear behaviour of nitrided austenitic stainless steel in a corrosive liquid environment, Wear, 263 (2007), 669-673.
• S.E. Franklin, R.W.M. Severt, J.B. Post, Improvement of the seizure resistance of orifice-type aerostatic bearings (case study). Wear, 261 (2006), 41-45.
• J. Baranowska, S.E. Franklin, C.P. Pelletier, Tribological Behaviour and mechanical properties of low temperature gas nitrided stainless steel in relation to layer morphology. Wear, 259 (2005), 432-438.
• S.E. Franklin, A. de Kraker “Investigation of Counterface Surface Topography Effects on the Wear and Surface Transfer Behaviour of a POM-20% PTFE Composite”, Wear, 255 (2003), 766-773.
• S.E. Franklin, R. Severt, “Ongoing Investigation of the Performance Degradation of HDD’s in relation to AV Streaming Application Conditions”, in: Digest of the Asia Pacific Magnetic Recording Conference APMRC 2002, Singapore, August 2002, (IEEE 2002, ISBN 0-7803-7509-2).
• S.E. Franklin, R. Severt, “Degradation of AV Streaming Performance of Hard Disk Drives at Elevated Temperature”, in: Proc. 13th Ann. Symp. on Information Storage and Processing Systems, ISPS 2002, Santa Clara University, USA, June 2002, (ASME International).
• S.E. Franklin, R. Severt, “A Preliminary Lifetime Performance Degradation Model for Hard Disk Drives in Consumer Electronics Applications”, in: Proc. 12th Ann. Symp. on Information Storage and Processing Systems, ISPS 2001, Santa Clara University, USA, June 2001, (ASME International).
• S.E. Franklin, “Wear Experiments with Selected Engineering Polymers and Polymer Composites under Dry Reciprocating Sliding Conditions”, Wear, 251 (2001), 1591-1598.
• S.E. Franklin, “Lifetime Design with the Aid of an Expert System”, de Constructeur, Nr. 1996/5 (May 1996), 24-29 (in Dutch).
• S.E. Franklin, J.A. Dijkman, “The implementation of tribological principles in an expert system (PRECEPT) for the selection of metallic materials, surface treatments and coatings in engineering design”, Wear, 181-183 (1995), pp.1-10.
• P. Robinson, A. Matthews, K.G. Swift, S.E. Franklin, “A Computer Knowledge Based System for Surface Coating and Material Selection”, Surf. Coat. Technol., 62 (1993), 662-668.
• A. Matthews, K. Holmberg, S.E. Franklin, “A Methodology for Coating Selection” in Thin Films in Tribology (Ed. D.Dowson et al), 1993, Elsevier. (Proc. 19th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology, Leeds, 8-11 Sept., 1992).
• S.E. Franklin, J. Beuger, “A Comparison of the Tribological Behaviour of Several Wear-Resistant Coatings”, Surf. Coat. Technol., 54/55 (1992), 459-465.
• S.E. Franklin, “The Wear Behaviour and Practical Performance of Coated Tools for Metal Stamping”, in: Proc. 5th Int. Congress on Tribology Eurotrib ’89, Helsinki, June 1989.
• S.E. Franklin, “The Performance of PVD and CVD Hard Coatings on Tools for Metal Stamping and Plastics Injection Moulding Applications”, in: Plasma Surface Engineering Vol. 2 (editors E. Broszeit et al), pp. 845-852, DGM Informationsgesellschaft mbH 1989.
• S.E. Franklin, “The Characterisation of Thin Ceramic Coatings”, Klei/Glas/Keramiek, Nr. 3 (1989), 76-78 (in Dutch).
• S.E. Franklin, R.A. Stark, “Further Use of Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry in the Study of Graphite Morphology Control in Cast Irons”, in: Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings Vol. 34 “The Physical Metallurgy of Cast Iron”, Editors H. Fredriksson and M. Hillert, Elsevier 1985.
• S.E. Franklin, R.A. Stark, “Application of Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry to the Study of Graphite Morphology in Cast Iron”, Metal Science, 18 (1984), 187-200.