April 19 – 23, 2009 | Las Vegas, USA

Call for Papers

Contributions are invited for the following paper types:

The following two awards will be presented at the conference:

Kenneth C Ludema Best Paper Award
Peter J Blau Best Poster Award

Oral Presentations

Authors are invited to submit a 200-250 word, single page abstract for either of the paper types indicated below. As with previous WOM Conferences, submitted manuscripts will be refereed and, upon acceptance, will be presented verbally and published in the conference proceedings. Further information on each paper type is included on the WOM website.

The Steering Committee has elected to offer authors the opportunity to present their paper at WOM 2009 in the form of a poster in lieu of oral presentation. The committee wants to encourage attendance and participation at the conference, and realizes that some authors, due to schedule or time constraints, may be more comfortable presenting their research in poster form. All papers, whether specified for oral or poster presentation, will undergo rigorous review and be included in the published conference proceedings.

Research Papers

Deadline for submission: June 1, 2008

(final manuscript, if accepted, 10-20 double spaced pages including figures):

Original research papers reporting new research results in the following areas are invited:

  1. Basic mechanisms of friction and wear of all materials and coatings
    Papers that describe and model the basic wear mechanisms for materials and coatings of all kinds, with carefully explained evidence. A proposed wear mechanism must be supported by several references to mature papers and correspond with the definitions of wear mechanisms by ASTM Committee G-2.
  2. Papers on modeling of friction and wear
    Papers that model real physical systems (not hypothetical systems) that include changes in mechanism over time or distance of sliding/rolling and in the presence of oxides, boundary lubricants or other thin films.
  3. Materials to resist friction and wear
    Papers that provide data on wear rate (and friction) of one or two materials, as measured by at least two different laboratory test devices, over very wide ranges (orders of ten) of sliding speed, and load: providing (curve fit) equations for the resulting data. Complete statistical analysis should be performed with correlation coefficients, etc. Anomalies especially should be discussed. Tests should be done under well controlled conditions other than high vacuum. Materials should be well characterized including the type and thickness of oxides and other coatings where present.

Papers should include reasonable characterization of materials and test method specifications so that other researchers can duplicate the experiments. Submissions will be held to high standards as contributions to the understanding of wear and for clarity of writing. An award will be given for the best paper.

Submit abstracts here…

Case Studies and Test Methods

Deadline for submission: June 1, 2008

(final manuscript, if accepted, 5-10 double spaced pages, including figures)

Case Study papers should provide a well-written description of specific wear issues in machinery, medical instruments or implants, or other field applications in which systematic materials selection, testing, or analysis played a major part in solving the problem.  These are intended to provide a forum for practicing engineers to contribute useful information to WOM.  Such papers serve to bridge the gap between the fundamental and developmental materials-related work presented as Research Papers, and the solution to real world wear problems. 

Papers covering New Test Methods should provide concise descriptions of new or improved wear testing or sensing methods that provide illustrative data, but do not attempt to model or analyze the mechanisms of wear in detail expected for full Research Papers. 

Submit abstracts here…

Review and Publication

Abstracts for oral presentations will be reviewed and acceptability determined by July 15, 2008. Complete manuscripts will then be due by September 1, 2008. Manuscripts should be submitted on-line at http://ees.elsevier.com/wom (link will open in a new window).

All papers (except stand-alone posters) will be peer-reviewed before final acceptance for publication in the proceedings (Special Issue of WEAR) and oral presentation at the conference. The conference language is English; SI units must be used, and papers must be original contributions, not previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

A delegate manual containing abstracts of all oral and poster presentations will be made available at the conference, and the proceedings containing papers of the oral presentations will be mailed to all registered delegates in July 2009.

Stand-alone Poster Presentations

Submissions are invited for posters on the key conference topics. Abstracts should be submitted via the WOM 2009 website no later than December 16, 2008. Accepted abstracts will be printed in the delegate manual.

The stand-alone poster presentations provide an opportunity for authors to communicate the latest research results as well as pose an existing problem to solicit inputs. An award will be given for the best poster presentation.