The conference covers issuses relating to:
- 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.
- Methods for technical state assessment and lifetime extension of damaged critical structures of long-term exploitation of off-shore constructions.
- Cases of abnormally rapid of wear.