Mission & Organization
The Permanent Commission for the Standardization of Terminology envisions to provide the community with standard definitions and terms for mechanism and machine science, whether in classical mechanism theory, kinematics and dynamics, machine elements and control, or in associated applications. To this end it establishes corresponding media of publication and cooperates with other international and national bodies concerned with terminology and related matters. The joining of young researchers to this committee is highly welcome.
Regarding the outcome of the previous work of this PC please also refer to:
– Digital Mechanism and Gear Library (https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/main/portal.jsp?mainNaviState=aktuell)
– IFToMM dictionary (https://iftomm-terminology.antonkb.nl/2057/frames.html)
Applications for membership in the Permanent Commission for the Standardization of Terminology can be submitted to pc-and-tc-affairs@iftomm-world.org.
Leadership
| Function | Name | Affiliation |
| Chair | Prof. Jun Zhang |
School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation
Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, CHINA zhang_jun@fzu.edu.cn |
| Deputy chair | Prof. Ovidiu Antonescu |
University Politehnica of Bucharest
Mechanism and Robot Dept. Independenţei nr. 313 RO-060042 Bucharest ROMANIA oval33@hotmail.com |
Members
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Name | Affiliation |
| Belarus | Ass. Prof., Ph.D. Sergej V. Shil’ko | National Academy of Sciences of Belarus |
| Belarus | Prof., Dr. Techn. Sc. Victor E. Starzhinsky | National Academy of Sciences of Belarus |
| Belarus | Prof., Dr. Eng. Mark M. Kane | Belarusian National University of Technology |
| China-Beijing | Jun Zhang | |
| China-Beijing | Prof. Dr. Yue-Qing Yu | Beijing University of Technology |
| China-Beijing | Prof Dr-Ing. Zhaohui Lan | Fuzhou University |
| China-Taipei | Prof Dr-Ing. Shyi-Jeng Tsai | National Central University |
| Finland | Prof. Emeritus Tatu Leinonen | |
| France | Prof. Didier Remond | Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA) |
| France | Jean-Christoph Fauroux | SIGMA Clermont |
| Germany | Dr. Ulf Döring | Technische Universität Ilmenau |
| Germany | Prof Dr-Ing. Burkhard Corves | RWTH Aachen University Aachen |
| Germany | Dr. Torsten Brix | TU Illmenau |
| Hungary | Prof. Dr. Istvan Biro | University of Szeged |
| Italy | Prof. Raffaele Di Gregorio | University of Ferrara |
| Lithuania | Prof. Dr. Rymantas Tadas Tolocka | Kaunas University of Technology |
| Netherlands | Dr. Ir. Antonius Klein Breteler | Delft University of Technology |
| Poland | Prof. Antoni Gronowicz | Wroclaw University of Technology |
| Poland | Prof. Józef Wojnarowski | Silesian University of Technology |
| Romania | Prof. Dr. Ing. Păun Antonescu | University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest |
| Romania | Dr.Ing. Theodor Ionescu | |
| Russia | Prof. Eugeni Shalobaev | St Petersburg State University |
| Serbia and Montenegro | Prof Dr-Ing. Nenad T. Pavlović | University of Niš |
| Slovakia | Asst. Prof., Dr. Štefan Segla | Technical University of Liberec |
| USA | Prof. Gordon Pennock | School of Mechanical Engineering |
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