April 19 – 23, 2009 | Las Vegas, USA

Conference Organizers

The 17th International Conference on Wear of Materials is organized by the WOM Steering Committee and Elsevier, publisher of the journal WEAR.

WOM 2009 Conference Committee

Steven J Shaffer, General Chair/Editor, Case Studies and Test Methods, Battelle Memorial Institute, USA
Somuri V Prasad, Program Chair, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Peter Filip, Secretary/Treasurer, Southern Illinois University, USA
Jeffrey Hawk, Immediate Past Chair, General Electric Company, USA
Peter J Blau, Member at Large, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Kenneth C Ludema, Editor, Research Papers, University of Michigan, USA
Christina Lim, Poster Chair, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ian M Hutchings, Tutorial Chair, University of Cambridge, UK
Kenneth G Budinski, Bud Labs, USA
Alfons Fischer, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Mark Rainforth, University of Sheffield, UK
Philip H Shipway, University of Nottingham, UK

WEAR

An International Journal on the Science and Technology of Friction, Lubrication and Wear

WEAR journal cover shotThis international journal is dedicated to the rapid publication of high quality papers on the important subjects of wear and friction, together with papers on closely related aspects of lubrication, contact phenomena or surface characterization. The scope includes all aspects of physics, chemistry, materials science and mechanical engineering which relate directly to the subjects of wear and friction; papers may approach the subject from a fundamental or technological viewpoint. Refereeing of all papers to be presented, in accordance with normal procedures for international journals in science and engineering, ensures that Wear is a high quality international journal for multidisciplinary communications.  All papers presented at WOM 2009 will be published as a special issue of WEAR.

For full details see the WEAR website (link will open in a new window).