2012 Volume 7 Issue 3 Pages i
The International Tribology Conference Hiroshima 2011 was held from Sunday 30th, October to Thursday 3rd, November, 2011 at International Conference Center Hiroshima, Japan. A total of 650 delegates from 29 countries including 150 delegates from overseas gathered in Hiroshima. A total number of papers presented at the conference were 418, which included 4 plenary lectures, 302 oral presentations and 112 poster presentations.
The papers presented at the International Tribology Conference Hiroshima 2011, and submitted to the Tribology Online have subsequently undergone the normal peer-review process by multiple reviewers. Accepted papers are published in two separate issues of Part I and Part II. This issue is its first issue. The second issue is going to be published as soon as the peer-review and the editorial processes of the papers are finalized.
