The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Vikram Deshpande, Professor of Materials Engineering, University of Cambridge, as the recipient of the 2022 Warner T. Koiter Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the Applied Mechanics Division Awards Dinner, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition（IMECE 2022), to be held during October 30 – November 3, 2022, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.
The Warner T. Koiter Medal, established in 1996, is bestowed in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of solid mechanics with special emphasis on the effective blending of theoretical and applied elements of the discipline, and on a high degree of leadership in the international solid mechanics community. The award was funded by the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, to honor Warner T. Koiter for his fundamental work in nonlinear stability of structures in the most general sense, for his diligence in the effective application of these theories, his international leadership in mechanics, and his effectiveness as a teacher and researcher.
Professor Deshpande receives the Koiter Medal for fundamental contributions in the mechanics of materials, ranging from the design of micro-architectured materials to the development of blast-resistant structures, which have had a profound impact in engineering science and related technologies.
Pradeep Guduru
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Horacio Espinosa, James and Nancy Farley Professor of Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, as the recipient of the 2022 Daniel C. Drucker Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the Applied Mechanics Division Awards Dinner, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition（IMECE2022), to be held during October 30 – November 3, 2022, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.
The Daniel C. Drucker Medal was established in 1997 and is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering through research, teaching, and service to the community over a substantial period of time. Instituted by the Applied Mechanics Division, this medal honors Dr. Daniel Drucker and commemorates his service to the profession.
Professor Espinosa receives the Drucker Medal for seminal contributions to in-situ characterization and modeling of nano and meta materials, and the creation of robust nanoelectromechanical systems.
Pradeep Guduru
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Michael A. Sutton, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, University of South Carolina, as the recipient of the 2022 Timoshenko Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the Applied Mechanics Division Awards Dinner, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition（IMECE 2022), to be held during October 30 – November 3, 2022, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.
The Timoshenko Medal was established in 1957 and is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics. Instituted by the Applied Mechanics Division, it honors Stephen P. Timoshenko, world-renowned authority in the field, and it commemorates his contributions as author and teacher.
Professor Sutton receives the Timoshenko Medal for contributions in the creation and development of fundamental theory, dissemination, and application of digital image correlation methods in solid mechanics, providing unprecedented measurement capabilities to the field of applied mechanics.
Pradeep Guduru
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is delighted to provide free registration links for the AMD awards event and the Koiter medalist lecture, which will take place on November 3rd, 2021, between 6:30 pm and 9:00 pm Eastern Time. The AMD awards event includes the Timoshenko medalist lecture by Prof. Huajian Gao; while the Koiter medalist lecture will be given by Prof. Gerhard Holzapfel.
AMD Awards and Timoshenko Awardee Lecture. 11/3/2021, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm ET. https://asme.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DbcMEIkUSRWK4x-dKVSBKQ
Best regards,
Pradeep Guduru
Chair, AMD-ASME Executive Committee
The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is delighted to provide free registration links for the AMD awards event and the Koiter medalist lecture, which will take place on November 3rd, 2021, between 6:30 pm and 9:00 pm Eastern Time. The AMD awards event includes the Timoshenko medalist lecture by Prof. Huajian Gao; while the Koiter medalist lecture will be given by Prof. Gerhard Holzapfel.
AMD Awards and Timoshenko Awardee Lecture. 11/3/2021, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm ET. https://asme.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DbcMEIkUSRWK4x-dKVSBKQ
Best regards,
Pradeep Guduru
Chair, AMD-ASME Executive Committee
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Professor of Biomechanics and head of the Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology in Austria, as the recipient of the 2021 Warner T. Koiter Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the Applied Mechanics Division Awards Ceremony, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held virtually, on November 1-5, 2021.
The Warner T. Koiter Medal, established in 1996, is bestowed in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of solid mechanics with special emphasis on the effective blending of theoretical and applied elements of the discipline, and on a high degree of leadership in the international solid mechanics community. The award was funded by the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, to honor Warner T. Koiter for his fundamental work in nonlinear stability of structures in the most general sense, for his diligence in the effective application of these theories, his international leadership in mechanics, and his effectiveness as a teacher and researcher.
Professor Holzapfel receives the Koiter Medal for outstanding contributions to the applications of solid mechanics in the development of continuum theory, computational methods, simulations and experiments in the biomechanics of soft biological materials; and for international leadership in the field through editorships, conference organization, mentoring and Ph.D.-level education.
Yuri Bazilevs
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Markus Buehler, Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Engineering, MIT, as the recipient of the 2021 Daniel C. Drucker Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the Applied Mechanics Division Awards Ceremony, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held virtually, on November 1-5, 2021.
The Daniel C. Drucker Medal was established in 1997 and is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering through research, teaching, and service to the community over a substantial period of time. Instituted by the Applied Mechanics Division, this medal honors Dr. Daniel Drucker and commemorates his service to the profession.
Professor Buehler receives the Drucker Medal for contributions to the use of molecular mechanics and chemical principles to elucidate the mechanics of natural and bio-inspired materials, and the design of mechanically optimized composite materials through hierarchical structuring from nano to macroscales.
Yuri Bazilevs
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Huajian Gao, Distinguished University Professor of the College of Engineering and College of Science, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, as the recipient of the 2021 Timoshenko Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the Applied Mechanics Division Awards Ceremony, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held virtually, on November 1-5, 2021.
The Timoshenko Medal was established in 1957 and is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics. Instituted by the Applied Mechanics Division, it honors Stephen P. Timoshenko, world-renowned authority in the field, and it commemorates his contributions as author and teacher.
Professor Gao receives the Timoshenko Medal for pioneering contributions to nanomechanics of engineering and biological systems, a new research field at the interface of solid mechanics, materials science and biophysics.
Yuri Bazilevs
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is pleased to announce and congratulate Dr. Mohammad Farazmand, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at NC State University and Dr. Themistoklis Sapsis, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at MIT, as the 2020 recipients of the Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award. The award includes a certificate and an honorarium.
The Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award, is selected in June every even year from among the papers published in Applied Mechanics Reviews during the preceding two‐year period by the members of the Applied Mechanics Reviews Editorial Board and the Applied Mechanics Division Executive Committee Vice‐Chair.
The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the applied mechanics archival literature and pays tribute to the vision and commitment of service that led to the founding of the journal.
Prof. Farazmand and Prof. Sapsis are being recognized for their paper “Extreme events: Mechanisms and prediction”. Applied Mechanics Reviews, 71(5) (2019).
Yuri Bazilevs
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Anthony Waas, Richard A. Auhll Department Chair and Felix Pawlowski Collegiate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, as the recipient of the 2020 Warner T. Koiter Medal. This award includes includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium.
The Warner T. Koiter Medal, established in 1996, is bestowed in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of solid mechanics with special emphasis on the effective blending of theoretical and applied elements of the discipline, and on a high degree of leadership in the international solid mechanics community. The award was funded by the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, to honor Warner T. Koiter for his fundamental work in nonlinear stability of structures in the most general sense, for his diligence in the effective application of these theories, his international leadership in mechanics, and his effectiveness as a teacher and researcher.
Professor Waas receives the Koiter Medal for outstanding contributions to the mechanics of composite materials, particularly analytical work, experiments and predictive modeling of compressive response and failure of composite structures; and for the development of computational tools for progressive damage and failure analysis of composite structures.
Yuri Bazilevs
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Glaucio H. Paulino, Raymond Allen Jones Chair & Professor of Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials, Georgia Tech, as the recipient of the 2020 Daniel C. Drucker Medal. This award includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium.
The Daniel C. Drucker Medal was established in 1997 and is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering through research, teaching, and service to the community over a substantial period of time. Instituted by the Applied Mechanics Division, this medal honors Dr. Daniel Drucker and commemorates his service to the profession.
Professor Paulino receives the Drucker Medal for pioneering contributions to the field of mechanics, particularly advances in geometric mechanics associated with origami and tensegrity engineering that led to the creation of multifunctional structures and configurational metamaterials with unprecedented properties.
Yuri Bazilevs
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Mary C. Boyce, Dean of The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor, Columbia University, as the recipient of the 2020 Timoshenko Medal. This award includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium.
The Timoshenko Medal was established in 1957 and is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics. Instituted by the Applied Mechanics Division, it honors Stephen P. Timoshenko, world-renowned authority in the field, and it commemorates his contributions as author and teacher.
Professor Boyce receives the Timoshenko Medal for foundational achievements on the large strain nonlinear deformation of elastomers, thermoplastic polymers and polymeric composites; and for the development of rich mathematical mechanics descriptions of material response that reveal the material physics and mechanisms.
Yuri Bazilevs
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor K.T. Ramesh, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, as the recipient of the 2019 Warner T. Koiter Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, November 12, 2019, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8-14, 2019.
The Warner T. Koiter Medal, established in 1996, is bestowed in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of solid mechanics with special emphasis on the effective blending of theoretical and applied elements of the discipline, and on a high degree of leadership in the international solid mechanics community. The award was funded by the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, to honor Warner T. Koiter for his fundamental work in nonlinear stability of structures in the most general sense, for his diligence in the effective application of these theories, his international leadership in mechanics, and his effectiveness as a teacher and researcher.
Professor Ramesh receives the Koiter Medal for pioneering scientific contributions and international leadership in the area of dynamic material instabilities and material failure in diverse fields spanning the mechanics of traumatic brain injury to nanostructured materials and planetary impact.
Balakumar Balachandran
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor John Bassani, Richard H. and S. L. Gabel Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, as the recipient of the 2019 Daniel C. Drucker Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, November 12, 2019, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8-14, 2019.
The Daniel C. Drucker Medal was established in 1997 and is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering through research, teaching, and service to the community over a substantial period of time. Instituted by the Applied Mechanics Division, this medal honors Dr. Daniel Drucker and commemorates his service to the profession.
Professor Bassani receives the Drucker Medal for distinguished contributions to the mechanics of materials in the areas of dislocation mechanics, crystal plasticity, texture evolution, creep fracture, interfacial fracture, and grain boundaries, using innovative methods that link atomistic modeling, nonlinear continuum mechanics, and computational mechanics.
Balakumar Balachandran
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor J. N. Reddy, Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, as the recipient of the 2019 Timoshenko Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, November 12, 2019, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8-14, 2019. As a part of a tradition, toward the end of the Applied Mechanics Banquet, the Timoshenko Medalist of the year will deliver a speech upon receiving the Medal.
The Timoshenko Medal was established in 1957 and is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics. Instituted by the Applied Mechanics Division, it honors Stephen P. Timoshenko, world-renowned authority in the field, and it commemorates his contributions as author and teacher.
Professor Reddy receives the Timoshenko Medal for life-time contributions to research and education in applied mechanics through the authorship of creative and highly-cited papers on variational principles, refined theories of plates and shells, computational methods, and nonlocal theories, and textbooks that have impacted generations of engineers.
Balakumar Balachandran
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Ares Rosakis, the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, as the recipient of the 2018 Timoshenko Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, November 12-15, 2018. As a part of a tradition, toward the end of the Applied Mechanics Banquet, the Timoshenko medalist of the year will deliver a speech upon receiving the Medal.
The Timoshenko Medal was established in 1957 and is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics. Instituted by the Applied Mechanics Division, it honors Stephen P. Timoshenko, world-renowned authority in the field, and it commemorates his contributions as author and teacher.
Professor Rosakis receives the Timoshenko Medal for pioneering contributions to the mechanics of dynamic failure of geological materials and systems, earthquake source physics, and seismic hazards mitigation.
Pradeep Sharma, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor David Barnett, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, Stanford University, as the recipient of the 2018 Daniel C. Drucker Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, November 12-15, 2018.
The Daniel C. Drucker Medal was established in 1997 and is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering through research, teaching, and service to the community over a substantial period of time. Instituted by the Applied Mechanics Division, this medal honors Dr. Daniel Drucker and commemorates his service to the profession.
Professor Barnett receives the Drucker Medal for the development of the integral formalism for solving problems in anisotropic elasticity, which he used to make fundamental breakthroughs in the understanding of defects and interfacial waves in solids.
Pradeep Sharma, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Taher Saif, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as the recipient of the 2018 Warner T. Koiter Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, November 12-15, 2018.
The Warner T. Koiter Medal, established in 1996, is bestowed in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of solid mechanics with special emphasis on the effective blending of theoretical and applied elements of the discipline, and on a high degree of leadership in the international solid mechanics community. The award was funded by the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, to honor Warner T. Koiter for his fundamental work in nonlinear stability of structures in the most general sense, for his diligence in the effective application of these theories, his international leadership in mechanics, and his effectiveness as a teacher and researcher.
Professor Saif receives the Koiter Medal for employing principles of mechanics to explore phenomena at small scale providing the first evidence of (a) plastic strain recovery in nanograined metals, and (b) neuronal tension and its influence on neurotransmission; as well as providing leadership in promoting mechanics research in frontier areas.
Pradeep Sharma, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Ray W. Ogden, George Sinclair Professor of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, as the recipient of the 2016 Timoshenko Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, November 15, 2016, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Phoenix, Arizona, November 11-17, 2016. As a part of a tradition, toward the end of the Applied Mechanics Banquet, the Timoshenko medalist of the year will deliver a speech upon receiving the Medal.
The Timoshenko Medal was established in 1957 and is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics. Instituted by the Applied Mechanics Division, it honors Stephen P. Timoshenko, world-renowned authority in the field, and it commemorates his contributions as author and teacher.
Professor Ogden receives the Timoshenko Medal for the creation of a new area of applied mechanics research. He has stimulated the work of a large number of practitioners in the field of the modeling in biomechanics. Professor Ogden’s innovations in the modeling of soft biological tissues are of long lasting medical, epidemiological, economic and scientific importance.
Peter Wriggers, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Pedro Ponte Castañeda, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, as the recipient of the 2016 Warner T. Koiter Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, November 15, 2016, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Phoenix, Arizona, November 11-17, 2016.
The Warner T. Koiter Medal, established in 1996, is bestowed in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of solid mechanics with special emphasis on the effective blending of theoretical and applied elements of the discipline, and on a high degree of leadership in the international solid mechanics community. The award was funded by the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, to honor Warner T. Koiter for his fundamental work in nonlinear stability of structures in the most general sense, for his diligence in the effective application of these theories, his international leadership in mechanics, and his effectiveness as a teacher and researcher.
Professor Castañeda receives the Koiter Medal, for his world-leading development of theoretical tools of great power, elegance and practical importance for the analysis of the nonlinear response of composite materials.
Peter Wriggers, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Kyung-Suk Kim, Professor of Engineering, Brown University, as the recipient of the 2016 Daniel C. Drucker Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, November 15, 2016, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Phoenix, Arizona, November 11-17, 2016.
The Daniel C. Drucker Medal was established in 1997 and is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering through research, teaching and service to the community over a substantial period of time. Instituted by the Applied Mechanics Division, this medal honors Dr. Daniel Drucker and commemorates his service to the profession.
Professor Kim receives the Drucker Medal for his seminal contributions to the field of Mechanics of Materials, with specific recognition of his creative research in bridging experiments with mechanics theories for understanding the motion and deformation of interfaces as well as the formation and assembly of nanostructures
Peter Wriggers, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Andrea Prosperetti, Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, as the recipient of the 2016 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium of $1,500, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, November 15, 2016, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Phoenix, Arizona, November 11-17, 2016.
The Applied Mechanics Award was established in 1988 and renamed the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award in 2008. The Award is given to an outstanding individual for significant contributions in the practice of engineering mechanics; contributions may result from innovation, research, design, leadership or education.
Professor Prosperetti has established a systematic way to develop averaged equation models of dispersed multiphase flows. He developed the theoretical framework of deriving the averaged equations for dispersed multiphase flows using the ensemble averaging technique. He and his co-workers also developed novel methods for the direct numerical simulation of dispersed multiphase flows and used these methods to model the derived averaged equations.
Peter Wriggers, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Pedro M. Reis, Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, as the recipient of the 2016 Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award. This award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium of $1,500, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, November 15, 2016, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Phoenix, Arizona, November 11-17, 2016.
The Young Investigator Award was established in 1998 and renamed the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award in 2008. The Award recognizes special achievements in Applied Mechanics for researchers under the age of 40.
Professor Reis received this award for his outstanding contributions to experimental mechanics, with specific recognition for his studies related to nonlinear instability phenomena in slender structures, and the exploitation of such instabilities for novel functionalities.
Peter Wriggers, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
2015 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award - Professor Thao (Vicky) D. Nguyen
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Vicky Nguyen, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, as the recipient of the 2015 Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award. This award will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, November 17, 2015, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Houston, Texas, November 13-19, 2015.
The Young Investigator Award was established in 1998 and renamed the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award in 2008. The Award recognizes special achievements in Applied Mechanics for researchers under the age of 40.
Professor Nguyen received this award for her contributions to both polymer mechanics and biomechanics. She has developed fundamental and innovative physics based models for the mechanics of shape memory polymers, and her work on the complex mechanics of the eye is outstanding. She has shown a remarkable ability to identify the key mechanics issues in complex soft material problems, and then to develop novel theoretical and experimental tools to address these issues.
The award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium of $1,500, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Houston, Texas, November 13-19, 2015.
Huajian Gao, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
2015 Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award - Professor Gábor Stépán
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Gábor Stépán, Professor of Applied Mechanics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, as the recipient of the 2015 Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award. This award will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, November 17, 2015, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Houston, Texas, November 13-19, 2015.
The Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award, established in 2008, and is conferred in recognition of an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics through practice, research, teaching, and/or outstanding leadership.
This award is given to Professor Stépán in recognition of his sustained, original, and groundbreaking contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics and vibrations with particular application to mechanical systems governed by delay-differential equations and for his dedication to research mentorship, dynamics education, and professional leadership.
The award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium of $1,000, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Houston, Texas, November 13-19, 2015.
Huajian Gao, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
2015 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award - Professor James R. Barber
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor James R. Barber, University of Michigan, as the recipient of the 2015 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award. This award will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, November 17, 2015, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Houston, Texas, November 13-19, 2015.
The Applied Mechanics Award was established in 1988 and renamed the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award in 2008. The Award is given to an outstanding individual for significant contributions in the practice of engineering mechanics; contributions may result from innovation, research, design, leadership or education.
Professor Barber received this award for sustained contributions to contact Mechanics and elasticity. His work is characterized by exemplary clarity and precision, ranging from rigorous proofs of general theorems in mechanics to the development of methods for direct use in industry.
The award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium of $1,500, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Houston, Texas, November 13-19, 2015.
Huajian Gao, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
Haythornthwaite Foundation/Applied Mechanics Division - 2013 Student Travel Awards
The ASME Applied Mechanics Division Executive Committee continues to seek ways to involve and encourage younger members and particularly graduate students in the activities of the AMD Division. Through the generous annual support of The Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation 10 travel grants were awarded in 2013. These travel grants are offered to U.S. graduate students currently enrolled at U.S. universities or colleges presenting a paper in any field of applied mechanics. The winners were:
Sahab Babaee: Harvard University, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences –
Exploiting instabilities to design 3D soft metamaterials
Qiming Wang: Duke University, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Sciences –
Instabilities in compressed film-substrate systems: wrinkling, creasing, delaminated buckling and advanced modes
Xin Yan: University of Houston, Department of Mechanical Engineering –
Atomistic characterization of Li-Si alloys at experimental strain rates
Changjin Huang: Pennsylvania State University, Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics –
Physical environment regulates cellular uptake of nanoparticles
Huanyu Cheng: Northwestern University, Department of Mechanical Engineering –
Edible electronics: It tastes like chicken
Yonghao An: Arizona State Univ., School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy –
Finite element simulation on the unterface reaction controlled anisotropy in silicon anode for lithium ion batteries
Taha Goudarzi: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering - Numerical modeling of the nonlinear elastic response of filled elastomers via composite-sphere assemblages
Shutao Qiao: University of Texas at Austin, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics -
Mechanics of flexible glass photonics
Kai Yu: University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Mechanical Engineering -
Polymers predicting shape fixity and recovery of memory
Shixuan Yang: University of Texas at Austin, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics - Stretchability of polymer-supported ITO serpentine thin
Additional information about the Foundation can be found at: http://www.haythornthwaite.org
Larry Bergman, Chair
AMD, Executive Committee
2014 Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award - Professor Alexander F. Vakakis
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Alexander F. Vakakis, W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who is the recipient of the 2014 Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award.
The Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award, established in 2008, and is conferred in recognition of an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics through practice, research, teaching, and/or outstanding leadership.
This award is given to Alexander in recognition of his accomplishments in Nonlinear Dynamics, in particular his pioneering research in the area of Nonlinear Normal Modes and their influence on the global dynamics of nonlinear systems, as evidenced by his outstanding publication record and impact on the field.
The award, which includes a medal, a plaque, and an honorarium of $1,000, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Montreal, Quebec, November 14-20, 2014.
Larry Bergman, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
Applied Mechanics Division of ASME - 2013 Student Paper Competition
The Applied Mechanics Division of ASME encourages the involvement of graduate students in the activities of the AMD Division. One of the ways is the sponsorship of the annual Student Paper Cmpetition. The recipient of this prize was chosen from the Haythornthwaite Student Travel contest award pool sponsored by the Haythornthwaite Foundation. This year the winner was:
Sahab Babaee: Harvard University, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Exploiting instabilities to design 3D soft metamaterials
Larry Bergman, Chair
AMD Executive Committee
Haythornthwaite Foundation and the Applied Mechanics Division - 2013 Research Initiation Grant Awards
This year the Applied Mechanics Division, through the generosity the Haythornthwaite Foundation, awarded three Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grants. Also, this year the Applied Mechanics Division funded a fourth grant. These grants target university faculty that are at the beginning of their academic careers engaged in research in theoretical and applied mechanics. The awardees will complete at least a portion of the proposed effort within the next year and report their results in an oral or poster presentation at the IMECE 2014 in Montreal, Quebec. This year the recipients of the 2013 awards were:
AMD Funded:
Meredith Silberstein: Cornell University –
Mechanochemically Active Polymers: Development and Validation of Theory
Haythornthwaite Foundation Funded:
Addis Kidane: University of South Carolina –
A Novel 3D Full-Field Deformation Measurement at a Temperature Higher Than 1000 0C
Steven Cranford: Northeastern University –
Multi-phase Topologically Controlled Structural Fuses Inspired by the Mussel Byssus
Christian Linder: Stanford University –
Design of Nanostructured Electrode Materials in Microfluidic Microbial Fuel Cells
The Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation has been a generous supporter of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD). The Foundation supports scientific research, primarily research in the field of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Robert Haythornthwaite was founder and first President of the American Academy of Mechanics. Additional information about the Foundation can be found at: http://www.haythornthwaite.org
Larry Bergman, Chair
AMD Executive Committee