Papers are invited for a Symposium on In-Service and Machine Analysis, Diagnostics, and Prognostics to be held Wednesday, December 8, 2010. Sponsored by ASTM Committee D02 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants, the symposium will be held at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, Florida, in conjunction with the December 5-9 standards development meetings of Committee D02.

General Objectives
The general objective of the symposium is to hold a technical forum for presentations and discussions related to current research and practices relating to in-service lubricant and machinery testing, analysis, diagnostics and prognostics and the impact of ASTM standards on condition monitoring and associated businesses. The forum will also provide future direction and suggest new standards for Subcommittee D02.96 (on In-Service Lubricant Testing and Condition Monitoring Services) to investigate.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• Test method developments and applications
• Lubricant condition and contamination testing (FTIR, viscosity, micro-oxidation, fuel dilution, particle counting)
• Wear debris
• Data analysis
• Industrial trends

Who should attend?
Anyone involved in in-service lubricant testing, specifying lubricant testing, managing machinery assets, lubricant test equipment manufacturers, and lubricant manufacturers.

The language of the symposium will be English.

To participate in the symposium, presenters/authors must submit online the Abstract Submittal Form and attach a 250-300 word preliminary abstract no later than December 4, 2009. Scroll to the top of the page to "Go to Abstract Submittal Form". To ensure your abstract was received into the ASTM database system, please email hsparks@astm.org stating that your abstract was submitted. The abstract must include a clear definition of the objective and approach of the work discussed, pointing out material that is new, and present sufficient details regarding results. The presentation and manuscript must not be of a commercial nature nor can it have been previously published. Because a limited number of abstracts will be accepted, be sure that the abstract is complete to allow for careful assessment of the paper's suitability for this symposium. Symposium Chair Allison M. Toms will notify you in writing by March 6, 2010 of your paper's acceptability for presentation at the symposium. If the preliminary abstract is accepted, the presenter/author will be requested to submit a final camera-ready abstract several months before the symposium. The final abstracts will be distributed in an abstract booklet at the symposium.

Symposium presenters are required to submit their papers to the Journal of ASTM International (JAI). JAI is an online, peer-reviewed journal for the international scientific and engineering community. You may access information about JAI at www.astm.org/JAI. Additionally, you may wish to review the new web-based submission and peer-review site at http://jai.peerx-press.org. After the final selection of abstracts has been approved, the ASTM Editorial Office will send authors' instructions via email only. Manuscripts to be peer reviewed for JAI are due online no later than December 8, 2010 at the ASTM Editorial Office. The corresponding author (the author who is the main contact with ASTM Headquarters) will receive a copy of his/her paper in portable document format (PDF). All published authors will have the opportunity to purchase reprints of their papers at a nominal cost.

ASTM publishes individual paper(s) in the first available issue(s) of JAI. ASTM also issues a collection of reprinted papers (after publication in JAI) as a Special Technical Publication (STP). (A minimum of ten papers is required for an STP.) Only those papers submitted by the manuscript due date will be included in the STP.

Additional information about the symposium is available from Symposium Chair Allison M. Toms, GasTOPS Inc., Pensacola, FL, Email: atoms@gastopsusa.com, tel: 850-478-8512.