·         Additives
·         Application in machinery and transportation
·         Fuels
·         Greases
·         Hydraulic fluids
·         Ionic liquids
·         Lubricant chemistry and rheology
·         Oil ageing and oil sensors
·         Oils
·         Prediction of service life
·         Solid lubricants
·         Tribo-chemistry
·         Tribology in manufacturing
·         Tribology of materials

·         Anti-wear technology
·         Case studies
·         Control and modification of frictional properties
·         Experiment, equipment, test methods
·         Friction at the nano, micro and macro scales
·         Mechanisms of wear
·         Theory of friction and wear, numerical simulation
·         Tribology in manufacturing
·         Tribology of materials

·         Adhesion and interfaces
·         Coatings
·         Contact mechanics
·         Controlled environments
·         Fatigue of materials
·         Fretting fatigue
·         In-situ formed tribo-films
·         Roughness
·         Surface analysis techniques
·         Surface evolution and wear
·         Surface treatments
·         Texturing
·         Tribo-corrosion