The Conference on wear processes is organized periodically and is a continuation of the seminars series concerning  “Testing and modelling of complex wear processes”, that are organized in years 2003 and 2005.
The Initiator of the Conference is Jarosław Chmiel, PhD. Eng. from  Maritime University of Szczecin. The  aim of the Conference is a creating a forum of information exchange for researchers dealing with issues of wear phenomena caused by more as one process acting on a material simultaneously, the subject somewhat neglected at most conferences focusing on wear problems.
The main topics of the Conference are as follows:
  • fundamental problems of deterioration and wear of materials.
  • simple and complex deterioration processes.
  • hydrogen degradation of materials.
  • wear processes accelerated by the hydrogen degradation and corrosion.
  • modeling of wear processes.
  • causes of abnormally rapid of wear.
Increasing interest of topics discussed at those seminars has motivated the organizers to adopt the conference format in 2007. Since 2009, thanks to the recommendation of prof. H. Nykyforchyn, the Conference is held under the auspices of the European Structural Integrity Society, Technical Committee TC10 “Environmentally Assisted Cracking”.

The seminar  and conference papers were then published in the "Problemy Eksploatacji - Maintenance Problems" Quarterly (eg. 4/2003, 1/2006, 4/2007, 4/2010) and in 2012 in "Solid State Phenomena" No. 225.