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Meeting 2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
Symposium Tribology: Advances in Friction, Wear and Lubrication of Interfaces
Sponsorship
Organizer(s) Tomas Grejtak, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Tomas F. Babuska, Sandia National Laboratories
Avik Samanta, University of South Florida
John Francis Curry, Sandia National Laboratories
Scope Tribology is the science of friction, wear, and lubrication between contacting surfaces. The importance of reducing friction and wear in engineering materials is significant across various sectors of industry such as energy, transportation, aerospace and national security. This symposium broadly encompasses many aspects of Tribological research and development such as materials tribology, synthetic lubricants and additives, advanced tribotesting methods, contact mechanics and applications of modeling/simulation and AI/ML approaches to understand tribological phenomena.

The topics will include, but will not be limited to the following:

• Tribology of metals, ceramics, soft matter, polymers, composites and biomaterials.
• Lubrication of gears, bearings, seals, compressors and engines.
• Solid lubricants and tribology of thin films and coatings.
• Contact mechanics, modeling, and simulation of interfaces.
• Advanced, high-throughput, and in situ tribological testing.
• Effect of material/surface processing on tribological behavior.
• Tribological understanding of additively manufactured parts.
• Applications of AI/ML to understand complex tribological phenomena & accelerate material discovery

Abstracts Due 07/01/2025
Proceedings Plan Undecided
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