| Scope |
Tribology: the science of friction, wear, and lubrication at interacting surfaces is central to the performance, reliability, and service life of engineering components operating in energy, transportation, aerospace, advanced manufacturing, and national security environments. Reducing frictional losses and mitigating wear and degradation remain persistent challenges in structural and functional materials systems, with significant implications for energy efficiency, sustainability, and component longevity. This symposium will focus on recent advances in tribological science and engineering, encompassing materials-centric investigations, surface and interface design, lubrication chemistry, experimental and computational methodologies, and emerging data-driven approaches. Emphasis will be placed on elucidating fundamental mechanisms governing interfacial interactions and translating these insights into strategies for the design and deployment of durable materials, coatings, and tribological systems. The symposium is intended to provide a technical forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government laboratories to present new results, discuss challenges, and identify future research directions in tribology.
Contributed presentations are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:
• Tribological behavior of metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, soft materials, and biomaterials.
• Surface engineering approaches, thin films, and protective coatings for friction and wear reduction.
• Solid lubrication, boundary lubrication regimes, and advanced lubricant and additive chemistries.
• Tribology of mechanical systems and components, including gears, bearings, seals, compressors, and propulsion systems.
• Contact mechanics and multiscale modeling and simulation of interfaces and tribological contacts.
• Advanced, in situ, operando, and high-throughput tribological testing and characterization methods.
• Influence of manufacturing and surface processing routes—including additive manufacturing, laser processing, and surface texturing—on tribological performance.
• Tribology of additively manufactured and architected materials systems.
• Physics-informed modeling, digital twins, and artificial intelligence/machine-learning approaches for understanding tribological phenomena and accelerating materials and surface design. |