Wear of Materials 2021
23rd International Conference Wear of Materials
25-29 April 2021 | Banff, Alberta, Canada
Welcome to the 23rd International Conference on Wear of Materials, which will take place in majestic Banff, Alberta, Canada from 25-29 April 2021.
The conference will focus on advances in the understanding of both the fundamental and applied aspects of wear and friction of materials and will provide an international forum for researchers and practicing engineers from different disciplines to interact and exchange their latest understandings. The conference is also unique for its paper submission process with full peer review in collaboration with the Elsevier journal Wear to ensure technical quality of presentations.
This edition of the conference will include special sessions on wear and related topics in aviation and aerospace applications, renewable energy applications, biotribology, engine tribology, tool wear, modeling and simulation and surface texturing for wear reduction. A full list of topical areas are listed below.
Conference Topics:
Abstracts are now invited on the following topics. They should be submitted using the online abstract submission system.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 29 May 2020
- Abrasive Wear
- *NEW Aviation and Aerospace Wear
- Biotribology
- Ceramics and CMCs
- Coatings and Surface Treatment
- Cutting and Tool Wear
- Elevated Temperature Wear
- Engine Tribology
- Erosion and Erosion-Impact
- Fretting Wear
- Lubricated Wear, Scuffing, Rolling
- Metals and MMCs
- Modeling and Simulation
- Polymers and PMCs, Friction Materials
- *NEW Renewable Energy Applications
- Role of Third Bodies
- Sliding Wear
- Surface Texturing
- Tribocorrosion (including erosion-corrosion)
- Wear Testing and Monitoring
- Wheel/Rail Contact
- Other topics
Conference Chair
- Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University, USA
Program Chair
- Jun Qu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Editorial Chair
- Martin Dienwiebel, KIT and Fraunhofer IWM, Germany
Editorial Co-Chair
- Stefanie Hanke, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Secretary
- Richard Chromik, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Treasurer
- Steve Shaffer, Shaffer Tribology Consulting, CA, USA
Liaison for journal ‘Wear’
- Marcello Papini, Ryerson University, Canada
- Alfons Fischer, Max-Planck-Institute for Eisenforschung, Germany
Immediate Past Chair
- Thomas Scharf, University of North Texas, TX, USA
Conference Historian
- Peter Blau, Blau Tribology Consulting, NC, USA
Publicity Chair
- Laura Peña Parás, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
Poster/Awards Chair
- Stefanie Hanke, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Wenjun Cai, Virginia Tech, VA, USA
Tutorial Chair
- Mark Gee, National Physical Lab (NPL), UK Tutorial Session
Exhibit Advisor
- Ken Budinski, Bud Labs, USA
Session Co-Coordinators: Abrasive Wear
- Alfons Fischer, Max-Planck Institute for Iron Research, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Carsten Gachot, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Session Co-Coordinators: Biotribology
- Markus A. Wimmer, Rush University Medical University, Chicago, USA
Session Co-Coordinators: Ceramics and CMCs
- Thomas Scharf, University of North Texas, TX, USA
Session Co-Coordinators: Surface Texturing
- Carsten Gachot, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Patricia Iglesias, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA
Session Co-Coordinators: Coatings and Surface Treatment
- Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University, USA
Session Co-Coordinators: Cutting and Tool Wear
- Dirk Biermann, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Session Co-Coordinators: Elevated Temperature Wear
- Jens Hardell, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
Session Co-Coordinators: Engine Tribology
- Peter Lee, Southwest Research Institute, TX, USA
Session Co-Coordinators: Erosion and Erosion-Impact
- Robert Wood, University of Southampton, UK
- Stefanie Hanke, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Session Co-Coordinators: Fretting Wear, Friction and Wear under Vibratory
- Siegfried Fouvry, Ecole Centrale Lyon, France
Session Co-Coordinators: Lubricated Wear, Scuffing, Rolling
- Jun Qu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Mitjan Kalin, University of Ljublijana, Ljublijana, Slovenia
Session Co-Coordinators: Metals and MMCs
- Sebastian Weber, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Session Co-Coordinators: Modeling and Simulation
- Gianandrea Vittorio Messa, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Session Co-Coordinators: Polymers and PMCs, Friction Materials
- Emile van der Heide, Universiteit Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Session Co-Coordinators: Renewable Energy Applications
- Martin Dienwiebel, KIT and Fraunhofer IWM, Germany
Session Co-Coordinators: Role of Third Bodies
- Sylvie Descartes, INSA Lyon, France
Session Co-Coordinators: Sliding Wear
- Richard Chromick, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
- Jun Qu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Session Co-Coordinators: Tribocorrosion (including erosion-corrosion)
- Anna Igual Munoz, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Stefano Mischler, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Session Co-Coordinators: Wear Testing and Monitoring
- Mark Gee, National Physical Lab (NPL), UK
Session Co-Coordinators: Wheel/Rail Contact
- Laura Peña Parás, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
- Sylvie Descartes, INSA Lyon, France
Session Co-Coordinators: Aviation and Aerospace Wear
- Pantcho Stoyanov (Pratt & Whitney), United Technologies Corporation - Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, USA
