Preface. Selected papers of the 21st International Baltic Conference on Engineering Materials and Tribology BALTMATTRIB 2012; p. 175

Coatings and surface engineering. Industry oriented research; pp. 176–184

The effect of surface pre-treatment and coating post-treatment to the properties of TiN coatings; pp. 185–192

Tribological properties of PVD coatings with lubricating films; pp. 193–201

Wear performance of PVD coated tool steels; pp. 202–210

Effect of basalt addition on tribological performance of FeCrSiB HVOF coatings; pp. 211–220

Influence of steel austenitization to part quality in continuous austempering; pp. 221–231

Induction brazing of cermets to steel; pp. 232–242

Cold metal transfer (CMT) welding of thin sheet metal products; pp. 243–250

Effect of high-force impulse loads on the modification of mechanical properties of heat-resistant steel after service; pp. 251–258

Assessment of residual stresses in steels and carbide composites by load and depth sensing indentation with spherical indenter; pp. 259–269

A study of third body behaviour under dry sliding conditions. Comparison of nanoscale modelling with experiment; pp. 270–278

Visualization of strain distribution around the edges of a rectangular foreign object inside the woven carbon fibre specimen; pp. 279–287

Stability of discrete-time systems via polytopes of reflection vector sets; pp. 291–301

Influence of changes in the station location and measurement routine on the homogeneity of the temperature, wind speed and precipitation time series; pp. 302–313

Wireless sensing in road structures using passive RFID tags; pp. 314–323

Tire and pavement wear interaction monitoring for road performance indicators; pp. 324–335

Green’s function for the deflection of non-prismatic simply supported beams by an analytical approach; pp. 336–351