K.L. Johnson Award
| ASME Unit: | Tribology Division (TRIB) | 
| Date Established: | 2006 | 
| Achievement: | Paper Judged as the best published by Technical Journal Of Tribology (JOT) in the area of contact mechanics during the previous year. | 
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| Nomination Deadline: | 5/1 | 
| Form of Award: | Certificate and $500 honorarium sponsored by The Timken Company | 
| Frequency of Award: | Annual | 
| Administrative: | Tribology Division | 
| Level of Award: | Division | 
| Selected By: | Contact Mechanics Technical Committee | 
| Selecting Process: | All contact Mechanics papers published in the previous years JOT are reviewed by the contact Mechanics Technical Committee. | 
| Funding: | Tribology Division Custodian Account and the Timken Company | 
| Date Created: | 12/9/2008 | 
| Date Modified: | 10/24/2012 | 
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K.L. Johnson Award Recipients
| 2006 | Matthew B. Marshall, Roger Lewis, Rob Dwyer-Joyce, Ulf Olofsson, and Stefan Bjorklund | 
| 2007 | Andreas Polycarpou and Xi Shi | 
| 2008 | Andrey Ovcharenko, Gregory Halperin, and Izhak Etsion | 
| 2009 | Yu-Chiao Wu and George G. Adams | 
| 2010 | David Hills, A. Sackfield, and RJ. H. Paynter | 
| 2011 | N. Weinzapfel, F. Sadeghi, and V. Bakolas | 
| 2012 | S. Medina, A. Olver, and D. Dini |