Understanding and mitigating the degradation of materials and structures exposed to aggressive environments is a critical challenge across many engineering sectors. This session focuses on the fundamental and applied aspects of corrosion, wear, and tribology that control the durability, reliability, and lifetime of materials and surfaces operating under mechanical and environmental loading.

Topics include corrosion mechanisms and kinetics in aggressive environments, localized corrosion processes, high-temperature and marine corrosion, corrosion of steel in concrete and infrastructure durability, corrosion of biomaterials, as well as stress corrosion cracking, corrosion fatigue, and hydrogen-related degradation. Contributions addressing corrosion protection strategies, inhibitors, advanced coatings, surface engineering, electrochemical characterization techniques, and non-destructive evaluation methods are particularly encouraged.

In addition, the session highlights advances in tribology and wear science, including sliding, abrasive, fretting, erosive, and high-temperature wear, along with tribological behavior in lubricated and unlubricated systems. Emphasis is placed on understanding wear mechanisms and system dynamics, as well as on advanced tribo-characterization and wear testing methods. Special focus is given to coupled degradation phenomena. such as tribocorrosion, erosion–corrosion, and corrosive wear, which are increasingly relevant in applications ranging from energy and marine systems to aerospace, infrastructure, and biomedical devices.