General presentation > Objectives and scope

 This workshop is primarily intended to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners from Industry and Academia to gather and share their knowledge regarding high performance materials for sliding bearings.

The conferences shall offer to the participants the opportunity to study the latest contributions on this subject and to identify the problems met by industrials by favouring a common approach. This event is organized by the Mechanical Engineering and Complex Systems dpartment of the Pprime Institute (UPR 3346, CNRS-Université de Poitiers-ISAE-ENSMA). Furthermore, the workshop is organised under the auspices of the French section of the ASME and of AFM.