Aims and Scope

Conservation of energy and resources is one of the biggest challenges for society and industry. Modern tribology is one of the main cornerstones of reducing carbon emissions. However, friction and wear protection lack a systematic approach based on elemental mechanisms from materials science, physics, and chemistry. Materials and technologies needed in the near future may not be a simple extension of the one which is in our hands now.

Following the successful 2008 and 2011 symposiums with 150-300 participants, the 3rd European Symposium on Friction, Wear, and Wear Protection (ESFWWP), http://www.dgm.de/dgm/friction_wear/, belongs to a series of conferences held once every three years under the auspices of the technical committee "Materials aspect of tribology and machining" of the German Materials Society (DGM). The scope of the symposium covers all classes of materials, machining, production, and lubrication technologies and targets practitioners from industry as well as engineers and scientists. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Wear resistant materials and coatings
• Friction materials and linings (brakes, clutches)
• Ultra-low friction materials and coatings
• Modelling and computer simulation
• Material-lubricant interactions and tribochemical effects
• Ceramics
• Polymers and PMCs
• Surface modifications
• Novel instrumentation and testing
• Biomaterials
• Nanotribology

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