Prof. P. Rama Rao (India)
Prof. Yiu Wing Mai (Australia)
Prof. Teruo Kishi (Japan)
Prof. D.M.R. Taplin, UK (2009)
Prof. John Knott (UK)
Prof. Subra Suresh (USA)
Prof. Robert O. Ritchie, USA (2009)
Prof. Julia King (UK)
Prof. Diane Lados (USA)
Prof. Namrata Gundiah (India)
Prof. Claude Bathias (France)
Prof. A.T. Yokobori (Japan)
Prof. S.D. Antolovich (USA)
Prof. T.Y. Zhang (China)
Prof. Wei Yang (China)
See attached List in Appendix A
Dr. M. Kitagawa, Japan, Secretary General Emeritus
Prof. Bhushan Karihaloo, UK, Vice President Emeritus
See attached list in Appendix B
The awards committee is very pleased with the outcome of the process that led to an outstanding slate of award winners. The committee extends its heartiest congratulations to all the winners and hopes that all the winners will be able attend ICF13 to personally receive the awards. Going forward, some recommendations are provided in the spirit of continuous improvement of the process to ensure that the awards program becomes even more prestigious with time:
1. The Chair of the Awards Committee should be a Vice‐President or the most recent former President of the Academy to give the Program the importance it deserves. If necessary, a new Vice‐President position in the Ex‐Co should be created if the person
chosen for the position is not already a Vice‐President or the most recent former President of the Academy.
2. Currently, the synergy between the award winners and plenary/honor lectures depends only on chance. Opportunities are being missed to proactively attract the best people to become more involved with ICF quadrennials. A very strong participation of the Local Organizing Committee in the Awards Committee can be very beneficial in a number of ways and should be ensured in the future. It will be highly beneficial to finish the selection of the gold and silver medals approximately one year before the quadrennial conference so all gold medalists can be invited to deliver honor/plenary lectures and silver medalists can be invited as keynote lectures with sufficient time for them to make plans to attend the conference.
3. The management of the Awards Program should be made a part of the MOU between ICF‐WASI and the Local Organizing Committee.
4. Going forward, the committee should include as many previous award winners as possible. The members of the committee should be urged to be objective in their selection of winners with only considerations being given to (a) outstanding research contributions (b) outstanding service contributions to ICF and the Fracture Community and (c) geographical balance.
5. All committee members should themselves be very active in soliciting nominations of outstanding candidates for the medals.
6. The Committee members were and should continue to be excluded from being candidates themselves for any medals.
7. The Awards Committee functioned as an autonomous committee that reported to the Executive Committee. This function should be institutionalized by appropriate changes in the bye‐laws. If such autonomy can also be assured in the future, there should be no
reason to exclude the Academy Officers from being candidates for the awards. Since these awards are made every four years, it is not in the best interest of ICF‐WASI to exclude its officers from being candidates because (a) the pool of candidates will be depleted and (b) some prominent researchers may stay away from being involved in the Executive Committee so they are not automatically excluded from being candidates for awards.
1. B. Averbach*
2. T. Yokobori
3. A. Kochendorfer*
4. R.W. Nichols*
5. D.M.R. Taplin
6. H. Liebowitz*
7. G.C. Sih
Class of 1981
8. B.A. Bilby
9. J.R. Rice
10. G.R. Irwin*
11. T. Kawasaki
12. A.S. Argon
13. M.F. Ashby
14. A.J. Carlsson
15. D. Francois
Class of 1984
16. A.H. Cottrell
17. T. Kanazawa*
18. Y. Rabatnov
19. J. Nemec
20. Zheng Zhimin
21. J. F. Knott
22. S.R. Valluri
23. F. Kerkof
24. S.N. Zhurkov*
25. G.P. Cherapnov
26. A.A. Wells*
27. J. L. Swedlow*
28. F.A. McClintock*
29. J.W. Hutchinson
30. P.C. Paris
31. R.O. Ritchie
32. M.L. Williams
Class of 1993
33. R.V. Goldstein
34. A.G. Evans*
35. S. N Atluri
36. V.V. Panasyuk
37. K.S. Salama
38. A. Pineau
Class of 1997
39. A.K. Head*
40. W.G. Knaus
41. K.J. Miller*
42. W.W. Gerberich
43. K.C. Hwang
44. K. Ravi‐Chandar
45. B.L. Karihaloo
46. Y.‐W. Mai
47. Leslie Banks‐Sills
48. Gordon Williams
49. Robert Dodds
50. Fazel Erdogan
51. Albert Kobayashi
52. Brian lawn
53. Shouwen Yu
54. G.I. Barenblatt
55. Alberto Carpinteri
56. M. Elboujdaini
57. David Embury
58. E. Gdoutos
59. A. Ingraffea
60. A. Kelly
61. A. J. McEvily
62. A. Saxena
63. Dr. Masaki Kitagawa
64. Dr. Teruo Kishi
*deceased
51 living Academicians
1. Professor Takeo Yokobori
2. Professor David M. R. Taplin
3. Professor John Knott
4. Professor Dominique Francois
5. Professor Palle Rama Rao
1. Professor Kamel Salama
2. Professor V. Panaysyuk
3. Professor Teruo Kishi
4. Professor Robert Goldstein
5. Professor Hwang Keh‐Chih
1. Dr. Tadashi Kawasaki