Memories of WTC 2022

Memories of WTC 2022

More photos from the 7th World Tribology Congress 2022 in France can be found here. This international event was a great opportunity to bring together the large scientific community, promote international exchanges and collaborations on the current topics on tribology.
 

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8th WORLD TRIBOLOGY CONGRESS
20 - 25th September, 2026 - Brasil

It is our pleasure to announce that the 8th World Tribology Congress will be held in Windsor Convention Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil in 2026.
 

The First announcement with more information is available here.

News

6th November 2023
Professor WEN Shizhu has passed away

Professor WEN Shizhu, the 2015 Tribology Gold Medal Laureate, passed away on Nov. 3, 2023, at the age...

25th August 2023
Brazilian tribology created a National Research Centre on Tribology focused on the energy transition

A significant achievement by the Brazilian tribology network (TriboBr) should substantially impact...

27th June 2023
ITC Thanks Past Executive Board Members

Jianbin Luo, Kenneth Holmberg and Ali Erdemir have recently stepped down as members of the International...

3rd January 2023
Message from the new ITC President Prof. em. Nicholas D. Spencer

Fellow Tribologists! It is with great pleasure that I take on the position of ITC President, with...

Tribology conferences and Meetings

23th - 25th
Jan 2024
Ostfildern (Stuttgart), Germany24th International Colloquium Tribology
19th - 23th
May 2024
Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)78th STLE Annual Meeting & Exhibition
11th - 14th
Jun 2024
Lyngby, DenmarkNORDTRIB 2024
18th - 20th
Jun 2024
San Sebastian, SpainLUBMAT 2024
2nd - 4nd
Sep 2024

Videos about Tribology

Tribology Vision - Korean Tribology Society

Global impact of tribology

  • 20% of world total energy consumption goes to overcome friciton
  • 18-40% of that can be saved by applying new technology, and that would correspond to 8.7% of global energy use and 1.4% of the global GNB
  • the biggest potential savings are in transportation and energy industry
  • 30% of the fuel consumption in an average passenger car goes to overcome fricition
  • 40% of the energy used in mineral mining is used for overcoming friction; friction and wear results in 970 million tonnes CO2 emissions in mineral mining annually corresponding to 2.7% of total world CO2 emissions
  • CO2 emissions are 4.5 times higher for an ICE passenger car compared to a similar battery electric car when electricity comes from renewable energy
  • Moving from fossil to renewable energy sources would cut down the energy losses due to friciton in energy production by more than 60%

References