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PRE-REGISTRATION
Symposium CC
Progress in the Understanding and Control
of Ceramics Surfaces for Tribology and Corrosion
Advisory Board
Invited Lectures


The substantial progress in the understanding of fundamental aspects of tribology and corrosion behaviour of advanced ceramics has led in recent years to relevant improvements of operation efficiency and lifetime in a large variety of applications. Nevertheless, new advances in efficiency and reliability both in room and high temperature systems only may be successful if novel or improved materials are conceived that are able to successfully operate under the envisaged high demanding service conditions.
This Symposium will update progress in fundamental aspects and mechanicistic understanding at micro- and nano-scale of the corrosion and friction and wear behaviour of ceramics and ceramic/metal composites in a variety of high demanding conditions as well as enlighten basic criteria and technical achievements in devising routes for improved corrosion and tribology performance.

Session Topics

CC-1 Corrosion

  • Thermodynamics and kinetics of corrosion mechanisms
  • Hot corrosion by aggressive atmospheres, molten salts metals and glasses, and by solid-solid reactions
  • Corrosion in water, solutions, hydrothermal conditions, physiological fluids
  • Erosive corrosion
  • Structural, microstructural and compositional evolution of surface layers
  • Corrosion damage
  • Ceramic durability in rolling contact
  • Surface nanostructuring and coatings for corrosion mitigation
  • New testing methods
  • Lifetime prediction and modeling of corrosion systems

CC-2 Friction and Wear

  • Wear mechanisms: tribochemical, thermo-chemical, fretting, abrasion, cyclic sliding, etc..
  • Friction mechanisms: contact stresses, role of surface state, environmental effects
  • Sticking and lubrication mechanisms
  • Self lubricating surfaces, solid lubricants
  • Mapping of tribology behaviour
  • Microstructural and mechanical property effects
  • Micro and nano tribology
  • Biotribology
  • Nanostructured ceramic surfaces and nanostructuring techniques (e.g. ion beam, laser processing, thin/thick films, etc.) for better tribology performance
  • Advances in friction and wear testing; life-time predictions
  • Modeling of tribological systems
  • Recent advances in micro and nano tribology applications


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