ESIS Awards 2010

On the occasion of the 18^th European Conference on Fracture in Dresden, ESIS President Prof. Gdoutos and ECF18 Chairman Prof. Klingbeil conferred the ESIS Awards: Griffith Medal to Prof. E. Gdoutos ‘‘for his seminal contributions in mixed-mode fracture and failure mechanisms of sandwich structures”. Wöhler Medal to Prof. A. Saxena ‘‘for his outstanding and seminal contributions on fatigue and fracture behaviour of structural materials, with special emphasis on creep crack growth, component life predictions, and nanostructured materials”. Award of Merit to Prof. J. Pokluda “for his outstanding contribution to micromechanics of fracture and a good service to the European Structural Integrity Society”. Honorary Membership to Prof. R. Goldstein “for his outstanding contributions to fracture mechanics, its engineering applications, and distinguished service to the fracture mechanics community”.

Young Scientist Award to Dr. Marco Paggi “for his outstanding contributions to fracture mechanics, and particularly in fatigue scaling, friction effects and nonlinear crack modelling”. ESIS Fellowship was awarded to Prof. Stojan Sedmak, Prof. Stefano Beretta, Dr. Dragoslav Sumarac, Prof. Nikita Morozov, and Prof. Giuseppe Andrea Ferro “for their outstanding contributions to the art, science, teaching or practice of fracture mechanics and their service to the Society”.

Griffith Medal to Prof. E. Gdoutos ‘‘for his seminal contributions in mixed-mode fracture and failure mechanisms of sandwich structures”.	Emmanuel E. Gdoutos is Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Director of the Laboratory of Applied Mechanics at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University of Illinois. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens. His interests and experience include many areas of mechanics of materials with emphasis on experimental mechanics, fracture mechanics, composite materials and nanotechnology. He authored over 240 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, 15 books and edited 13 books. Nine of his books refer to fracture mechanics. Prof. Gdoutos is Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Society of Experimental Mechanics, the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the New York Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Member of the Italian Group of Fracture. He is editor-inchief of ‘‘Strain – An International Journal for Experimental Mechanics,” President of the Greek Group of Fracture. He served as Chairman of the European Association for Experimental Mechanics. He is a member of the editorial board of eight international journals and guest editor of seven special issues of international journals. He has been awarded two Fulbright fellowships and an excellent teaching award from the University of Toledo. He chaired many conferences in theoretical and applied mechanics including the 16th European Conference of Fracture and the 13th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics.
Wöhler Medal to Prof. A. Saxena ‘‘for his outstanding and seminal contributions on fatigue and fracture behaviour of structural materials, with special emphasis on creep crack growth, component life predictions, and nanostructured materials”.	Ashok Saxena is the Dean of Engineering, Distinguished Professor and the Irma F. and Raymond C. Giffels’ Endowed Chair in Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He joined the University of Arkansas in 2003 as the Dean of the College and was recently reappointed to the position by Chancellor Gearhart until June of 2015. Dr. Saxena previously held the position of Regents’ Professor and Chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and was a Fellow Scientist at the Westinghouse Research and Development Center in Pittsburgh. He is a Fellow of ASTM, a Fellow of ASM International and a Fellow of International Congress on Fracture and a winner of numerous other research awards including the 1992 George Irwin Medal from ASTM, the 1993 Outstanding Research Author Award from Georgia Tech., and the 2009 Fracture Mechanics Medal from ASTM.
Award of Merit to Prof. J. Pokluda “for his outstanding contribution to micromechanics of fracture and a good service to the European Structural Integrity Society”.	Jaroslav Pokluda is Professor at the Institute of Physical Engineering and Head of the Dept. Materials Micromechanics and Applied Acoustics. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University J. E. Purkyně in Brno. His scientific field is materials science and engineering with special focus on micromechanisms of fatigue and fracture, multiscale modelling deformation and fracture, quantitative fractography, and failure analysis. He is author or co-author of 84 papers in refereed scientific journals, 152 contributions in conference proceedings including 11 keynotes, three textbooks and one monograph and editor of four books. Prof Pokluda has been co-chairman of seven international conferences (MSMF1-5, ECF17, ESOMAT 2009) and member of the editorial board of Metallic Materials, Strength of Materials, and Physicochemical Mechanics of Materials. He became Fellow of the Japanese Society of Promotion of Science in 2002 and the European Structural Integrity Society in 2009 and was awarded with the Commemorative Medal of the Institute of Materials Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, in 2005 and the Silver medal of Brno University of Technology in 2008.
Honorary Membership to Prof. R. Goldstein “for his outstanding contributions to fracture mechanics, its engineering applications, and distinguished service to the fracture mechanics community”.	Robert Goldstein is Professor of Mechanics and Physics of Technological Processes at the K.E. Tsiolkovsky Russian State Technological University. He received his M.S. from Lomonosov’s Moscow State University and his Ph.D. from the Academy of Sciences of USSR, where Barenblatt was one of his supervisors. His main fields of research are solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, mechanics of materials, strength and fracture in micro- and nanoelectronics, engineering applications of solid mechanics. He has been awarded both nationally and internationally, among others Honorary Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture in 1993, State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Techniques in 2000, Honoured scientist of the Russian federation in 2008. He is Deputy-Head of the Russian Scientific Council of Academy of Sciences on Strength and Plasticity since 1985, became member of the Executive Committees of ESIS in 1997 and ICF in 2001, Scientific Secretary of the Scientific Council on Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2004 and Vice-President of ICF in 2005. Professor Goldstein is member of the editorial boards of International Journal of Fracture, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Mechanics of Solids”, Journal of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Physical Mesomechanics”, Journal of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Computational mechanics of continuum media” and has been co-chairman of several international conferences on fracture mechanics.