The 24th International Conference on Wear of Materials will take place in majestic Banff, Alberta, Canada from 16-20 April 2023.

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 a 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 transportation, renewable energy, biotribology, tool wear, and surface engineering for wear reduction. We welcome both experimental and modeling work in format of full length research paper or case study with focus on the materials aspect of wear.

Conference Topics:

Oral and poster abstracts are now invited on the following topics and should be submitted using the online abstract submission system.

Deadline: 27 May 2022

  • Biotribology
  • Ceramics and CMCs
  • Cutting and Tool Wear
  • Erosion and Erosion-Impact
  • Extreme Environment Wear including High and Low Temperatures and Vacuum
  • Fretting Wear
  • Lubricated Wear
  • Metals and MMCs
  • Polymers and PMCs, Friction Materials
  • Role of Third Bodies
  • Rolling Wear including Bearing, Gear, and Rail
  • Sliding Wear including scuffing and galling
  • Surface Engineering including Coatings, Surface Treatment, Surface Texturing
  • Transportation Wear including Automotive, Aerospace, and Marine
  • Tribocorrosion including erosion-corrosion
  • Wear in Renewable and Sustainable Technologies
  • Wear Testing and Monitoring
  • Emerging topics

This 24th International Conference on Wear of Materials is not associated or related to any other conferences with similar conference names.