Announcement – The Paper Award of Tribology Online 2017 –

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The Japanese Society of Tribologists is very pleased to announce that the Paper Award of Tribology Online 2017 was awarded to: ◊ “Development of a New Tapping Tool Covered with Nickel/Abrasive Particles Composite Film for Preventing Chip Snarling and Tool Service Life Extension,” by Yasuyoshi Saito, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Kei Shibata, Yuki Kadota, Takeshi Kubo, Wataru Watanabe, and Kazuo Hokkirigawa, Tribology Online, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2016) 81-87. ◊ “Role of Water and Oxygen Molecules in the Lubricity of Carbon Nitride Coatings under a Nitrogen Atmosphere,” by Naohiro Yamada, Tomomi Watari, Takanori Takeno, and Koshi Adachi, Tribology Online, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2016) 308-319. and ◊ “Prediction of Shallow Indentation Effects in a Rolling-Sliding EHL Contact Based on Amplitude Attenuation Theory,” by Petr Šperka, Ivan Křupka, and Martin Hartl, Tribology Online, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2017) 1-7. The Award Medals were presented to the attended authors at the award ceremony by Prof. Takashi Nakamura, the President of the Japanese Society of Tribologists, at the JAST Annual Meeting on 22nd May, 2018. The medals were mailed to all the authors who were unable to attend the ceremony. 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.