The Japanese Society of Tribologists is pleased to announce that the 2014 Paper Award of Tribology Online was awarded to:

“Experimental Analysis of the Distribution of Traction Coefficient in the Shoe-Ground Contact Area during Running,”by Kenta Moriyasu, Tsuyoshi Nishiwaki, Takeshi Yamaguchi and Kazuo Hokkirigawa, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2012) 267-273.

and

“Oil-Free Bearings and Seals for Centrifugal Hydrogen Compressor,”by Hooshang Heshmat, Andrew Hunsberger, Zhaohui Ren, Said Jahanmir and James F. Walton, II, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2013) 44-63.

The Award Medals were presented to the authors by Prof. Takahisa Kato, the President of the Japanese Society of Tribologists, at the JAST Annual Meeting on 28th May, 2015.

The Paper Award of Tribology Online is given annually to the author(s), either the JAST members or non-members, of the paper(s) judged as the best paper(s) published in Tribology Online (TROL) for the previous three years. All papers that appeared in TROL for the three years are reviewed by the JAST Awards Committee.