Best Paper Award presented at ITSC 2008.

Dr. Roland Seals, chair of the Journal of Thermal Spray Technology Best Paper Subcommittee, has announced that the JTST Volume 16 Best Paper is "In-Situ Simultaneous Measurement of Thickness, Elastic Moduli and Density of Thermal Sprayed WC-Co Coatings by Laser-Ultrasonics" by C. Bescond, S.E. Kruger, D. Levesque, R.S. Lima, and B.R. Marple.

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The JTST Volume 16 Best Paper Award was presented during ITSC 2008 in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Dr. Basil Marple and Dr. Rogerio Lima accepted the paper on behalf of the co-authors.

The winning paper was selected from all papers printed in Volume 16 by a panel of 20 international thermal spray scientists: Prof. Arvind Agarwal, Florida International University; David Bucci, GE Power Systems; Prof. Ali Dolatabadi, Concordia University; Prof. Masahiro Fukumoto, Toyohashi University of Technology; Dr. Vincent Guipont, Ecole Nationale des Mines Paris; K.W. David Hart, Hart Metallurgical Services LLC; Jan Ilavsky. Argonne National Laboratory; Prof. Bertrand Jodoin, University of Ottawa; Dr. George Kim, Perpetual Technologies Inc.; Prof. Klaus Landes, University of the German Armed Forces; Dr. Rogerio Lima, National Research Council of Canada; Kaka Ma, University of California Davis; Dr. Jiri Matejicek, Institute of Plasma Physics ASCR; Dr. Lech Pawlowski, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Lille, ENSCL; Dr. Jim Ruud, GE Corporate Research & Development; Elizabeth Schofield, Plasma Processes Inc.; Dr. Philip Shipway, University of Nottingham; Dr. Yoshiki Tsunekawa, Toyota Technological Institute; Dr. Julio Villafuerte, Centerline Ltd.; Prof. Petri Vuoristo, Tampere University of Technology

The judges commented that the paper "proposes a valuable new in-situ measuring method" and is a "highly innovative contribution, which significantly expands the capabilities of an NDT characterization method."

Wannest congratulations to the winning authors, and special thanks to the judges.