Report from the Chair

Applied Mechanics Division 2012 Newsletter

Applied Mechanics Executive Committee (20112012) Message from the Chair Timoshenko Medalist Awards & Medals Journal of Applied Mechanics Applied Mechanics Meetings and Track News from the Technical Committees
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Applied Mechanics Division

20112012 Executive Committee

ViceChair Kenneth M. Liechti

Program Chair Lawrence Bergman

Message from the Chair

Program ViceChair Huajian Gao

Chair Ares J. Rosakis

Secretary Peter Wriggers

My formal service on the Executive Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) has come to an end. I have served as Chair of the Division from 20112012 and as a committee member for the past five years. It has been an amazing five years. During my term I have had the opportunity to work with an exceptional group of mechanicians who volunteer their time to serve on this committee. I was very lucky to have been able to follow in the footsteps of one of the most dedicated and knowledgeable committee members I know, Tayfun Tezduyar, from Rice University. Tayfun is the sage of everything AMD. All my committee members, Ken Liechti (ViceChair) of University of Texas, Larry Bergman (Program Chair), of the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, Huajian Gao (Program ViceChair) from Brown University and Peters Wriggers (Secretary) from the Leibniz Universitt Hannover, have made this a great journey.

As I leave the committee I would like to welcome in our newest incoming Executive Committee member, Arun Shukla of the University of Rhode Island. Aruns qualifications will make him an excellent addition to this committee.

The AMD Division is governed by the Executive Committee that is made up of 5 members. One new member is appointed each year for a term of five years. Each member of the Executive Committee serves as the Secretary of the Division during the first year of appointment, as ViceChair of the Program Committee during the second year of appointment, as Chair of the Program Committee during the third year of appointment, as ViceChair of the Division and Chair of the Publications Committee during the fourth year of appointment, and as Chair of the Division and Chair of the

Timoshenko, Koiter, Drucker, Caughey, Belytschko and Hughes Medal/Award Committees during the final year of appointment. The overall aims of the Division, as stated in the AMD bylaws is to foster the intelligent use of mechanics by engineers and to develop this science to serve the needs of engineering. Mechanics is construed to include fundamental analytical and experimental studies in the fields of biomechanics, composite materials, computing methods, dynamics, elasticity, experimental methods, fracture, geomechanics, hydrodynamics, lubrication, fluid dynamics, mechanical properties of materials, micromechanics, plasticity and failure, plates and shells, wave propagation and related fields the Applied Mechanics Division is not primarily concerned with design data, but with methods and approaches that yield a new level of understanding and which may provide the basis for new design information. The Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME is not only one of the oldest (founded in 1927) but, is also the largest division of the six divisions that make up the ASME Basic Engineering Group. These divisions are: Applied Mechanics (4958), Bioengineering (1,983), Fluids Engineering (2902), Heat Transfer (3,303), Materials (1,832) and Tribology (463). The ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) was held in November 2011 in Denver, Colorado. Every year the AMD conference track, Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids has done exceptionally well. The 2011Track 12, chaired by Larry Bergman and vicechair Huajian Gao, was a great success with 29 symposia and about 400 presentations. Also, the upcoming 2012, chaired by Huajian Gao and vicechair Peter Wriggers will be no exception, in fact, it may be one of the most successful conferences we have ever had. This success is due to the dedication and hard work of all involved. Highlights, of 2011 ASMEIMECE Track12, were the plenary lectures which were delivered by Ken Chong, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Ken spoke on Nuclear Energy: Safety, Production, Mechanics Research and Challenges and David Gartling, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM who spoke on A Finite Element Method for Ablation Problems. The 2011 Daniel C. Drucker Medalist, John Rudnicki, Northwestern University spoke on Formation and Extension of Localized Compaction in Porous Sandstones. The 2011 Warner T. Koiter Medalist, James G. Simmonds, The University of Virginia spoke on The Simple Logic of Classical Nonlinear Thermodynamic Shell Theory.

2011 ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) Annual Honors and Awards Banquet
Every year in November I look forward to the Annual ASME AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, this last year it was held in Denver, Colorado, and I had the pleasure of presiding over this very special evening. This was the most memorable event of my term as AMD Chair. We, mechanicians, come together to spend a few fantastic hours where we visit with our colleagues and friends from around the world and honor many of them for their contributions in our field of mechanics. I had the pleasure of presenting the ASMEAMD Division and Society awards, the AMD Student Paper Competition awards, the AMDHaythornthwaite Foundation Travel Awards and thanks to the generosity of the Robert M and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation this year we had a new award to give, the 2011 AMDHaythornthwaite Research Initiation Grants Awards. Below are the awards presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet in November 2011.

Fellow of ASME:
This year I had the pleasure of presenting an additional award at the AMD Banquet. I was honored to present FuPen Chiang (Stony Brook University) with his Fellowship Certificate for being elected Fellow of ASME. The ASME confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements. FuPen is truly deserving of this prestigious honor and I was happy to be a part of this.

Haythornthwaite Foundation:
As I mentioned The Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation has been a generous supporter of the Applied Mechanics Division. They support scientific research, primarily research in the field of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. The Foundation now sponsors the three AMD award categories below.

This past year the Applied Mechanics Division, through the generosity the Haythornthwaite Foundation, agreed to sponsor a new divisional award, the Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant. This new grant targets university faculty that are at the beginning of their academic careers engaged in research in theoretical and applied mechanics. I am glad to say we were able to fully fund three grants. The three recipients of the 2011grants were:

The 2011 AMDHaythornthwaite Research Initiation Grants Awards:

Christian Franck (Brown University) Customdesigned Uniaxial Compression Device for Measuring the Mechanical Response of Soft Biomaterials Dennis Kochmann (California Institute of Technology) A Unique Test Device for Viscoelastic Spectroscopy of Composites Containing Piezoelectric Constituents

Xuanhe Zhao (Duke University) ElectroChemoMechanics of Silicon Electrodes in LithiumIon Batteries Exciting news! The Haythornthwaite Foundation has very generously agreed to increase the amount of their donation for these research initiation grants. And AMD will also generously match a portion of this contribution to increase the number/amount of initiation grant awards.

and encourage younger members and particularly graduate students in the activities of the AMD Division.

The 2011 AMDHaythornthwaite Foundation Student Travel Award: The Applied Mechanics Division, Executive Committee continues to seek ways to involve

Through the annual support of The Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation six travel grants were awarded in 2011. 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 winning papers will be presented at the 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition (IMECE) in the upcoming conference in Houston, TX. The 2011 winners were: Baptiste Coudrillier (Johns Hopkins University) Effect of the Scleral Collagen Structure on the Mechanical Response of the Optic Nerve Head

 Qi (Kevin) Ge (University of Colorado) Thermomechanical Behaviors of Shape Memory Elastomer Composites Zheng Jia (University of Maryland ) In situ Experiments and Mechanics modeling of Tensile Cracking in Indium Tin Oxide Thin Films on Polyimide Substrates Theresa M. Koys (Johns Hopkins University) A Thin Shell Inflation Method for the Anisotropic Properties of Human Skin Tissues Shuodao Wang (Northwestern University) Mechanics of Curvilinear Electronic Qiming Wang (Duke University) Creasing to Cratering Instability in Polymers under Electric Fields

The 2011 Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) Student Paper Contest Winners:

The Applied Mechanics Division 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 Contest. The recipients of this prize are chosen from the Haythornthwaite Student Travel contest award pool sponsored by the Haythornthwaite Foundation. The 2011 winners were: 1st Place prize: Baptiste Coudrillier (Johns Hopkins University) Effect of the Scleral Collagen Structure on the Mechanical Response of the Optic Nerve Head 2nd Place prize: Qiming Wang (Duke University) Creasing to Cratering Instability in Polymers under Electric Fields 3rd Place prize: Shuodao Wang (Northwestern University) Mechanics of Curvilinear Electronics

Journal of Applied Mechanics:

The AMD Journal of Applied Mechanics (JAM) thanks outgoing Editor, Robert McMeeking (University of California, Santa Barbara) we are very grateful for his excellent leadership, service and dedication he provided during his two (5year) terms as Editor of JAM. Bob was presented with his certificate of service, which will end on July 1, 2012, and at the same time we welcomed in the incoming Editor Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University). For the calendar year 2010 there were 130 papers technical papers published and for the fiscal year 2011 which is from July 1, 2010 until June 30, 2011 there were approximately 136 papers. The AMDApplied Mechanics Review (AMR) thanks outgoing AMR Editor, JN Reddy (Texas A&M University) for his superb service during his term as Editor and for his outstanding performance. We also welcomed in the 2012 incoming Editor, Harry Dankowicz (University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign) whose term began on January 1, 2012.

Applied Mechanics Review:

Special Mention:

Also, I would like to mention several other members of the ASMEAMD team that are responsible for pulling this all together every year. Yuri, Bazilevs (University of California, San Diego) has been serving as the Recording Secretary for the AMD Executive Committee and has done a fantastic job. Ioannis Chasiotis (University of Illinois) has been serving as the Editor of this newsletter and produces an excellent informative edition yearly. Jacinta McComie (ASME Headquarters) for many years has been providing support to the AMD and dealing with each of us as we transition to our new duties. She takes care of the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, the brochure and the medals. Stacey Cooper, (ASME Headquarters) provides support with the IMECE congress organization and web tools.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone in November 2012 at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Houston, Texas November 915, 2012. It is going to be a VERY special ASME meeting where a lot of the super stars of mechanics will be honored on both Monday, November 12th and Tuesday, November 13th. Here are some of the individuals that will be honored in November 2012. Subra Suresh (Director, National Science Foundation) the Timoshenko Medal. Zdenek Bazant (Northwestern University) 2012 ASME Honorary Member. Jan Achenbach (Northwestern University) the 2012 ASME Medal. Zhigang Suo (Harvard University) the 2012 Thurston Lecturer. Wei Yang (President of Zhejiang University) the 2012 Calvin W. Rice Lecture Award. Pol Spanos (Rice University) the 2012 Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award.

Looking forward The 2012 ASMEIMECE in Houston, Texas

During the Applied Mechanics Divisions Honors and Awards Banquet:

Subra Suresh (National Science Foundation) Timoshenko Award lecture. Jim Dally (University of Maryland) the Daniel C. Drucker Medal. Erik van der Giessen (University of Groningen) the Warner T. Koiter Medal. Frank Moon (Cornell University) the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award. David Benson (University of California, San Diego) the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award. Kenji Takizawa (Waseda University) the Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Awards. Xi Chen (Columbia University) the Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Awards. Yuri Bazilevs (Univ. of California, San Diego) the Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Awards. iMechanica Please dont forget to frequent and post everything about mechanics on iMechanica. This is an excellent source for all the great things that are happening in the mechanics community.

Ares J. Rosakis, 2011 2012 Chair, Applied Mechanics Division 5

TRACK ON MECHANICS OF SOLIDS, STRUCTURES AND FLUIDS SUCCESSFUL AT IMECE 2011

Track 12 Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids at ASME IMECE 2011 in Denver, CO was once again the principal focus of Mechanicsrelated topics. The AMD Executive Committee extends its thanks to the AMD Technical Committees and affiliated ASME groups as well as the Topic Chairs and CoChairs for their considerable effort, leading to a successful event. There were more than 400 presentations spread over 39 Topics. The program began with a plenary session featuring the Drucker Medal recipient, John Rudnicki of Northwestern University, and the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award recipients, David Gartling of Sandia National Labs and Ken Chong of the National Science Foundation. Rudnickis presentation was entitled Formation and Extension of Localized Compaction in Porous Sandstones; Gartlings was A Finite Element Method for Ablation Problems; and Chongs was Nuclear Energy: Safety, Production, Mechanics Research and Challenges. Additional highlights of the Track included a symposium honoring the Drucker Medalist and the Koiter Lecture, delivered by the Koiter Medalist, Jim Simmonds of the University of Virginia, entitled The Simple Logic of Classical Nonlinear Thermodynamic Shell Theory. We look forward to another successful IMECE, in November 2012, under the able guidance of (now) Track 9 Chair, Huajian Gao. Larry Bergman, Chair Track 12: Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids IMECE 2011

THE 2011 AMD AND ASME SOCIETY AWARDS

TIMOSHENKO MEDAL Alan Needleman
The Timoshenko Medal was established in 1957 and is conferred annually 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. The 2010 Timoshenko Medal was awarded to Professor Alan Needleman of the University of North Texas,

for seminal contributions to the understanding of inelastic deformation and failure of materials. The acceptance speech that follows was presented at the Applied Mechanics Dinner of the 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress in Denver, Colorado, on Tuesday, November 15, 2011.

of Timoshenko Medalists. However, receiving the Timoshenko Medal has a down side. I'll describe the down side through a story told by JeanBaptiste Leblond. At the circus in Imperial Rome a slave was thrown to the lions. The lion stalked the slave and then attacked. As the lion jumped on him the slave grabbed the lion's mane and whispered in its ear. To the crowd's amazement the lion slinked off into a far corner of the arena and sat down. The Emperor called the slave over and said If you tell me what magic you worked I'll give you your freedom. The slave replied It wasn't magic. I just told the lion if he ate me he'd have a good meal but then he'd have to give an after dinner speech. Fortunately for me, many previous Timoshenko after dinner speeches are available on iMechanica. I will follow several of those and talk about my life in mechanics. Before I start on that, I want to mention four mechanicians who have had an enormous influence on my professional life as well as having greatly enriched my personal life: John Hutchinson, Viggo Tvergaard, Jim Rice and Erik van der Giessen. There is not enough time to detail my debt to them. My life in mechanics began my senior year at the University of Pennsylvania. I took a course in continuum mechanics from Hsuan Yeh who was Dean of the Towne School. The course was so interesting that I decided that was what I wanted to study in graduate school. I went to graduate school at Harvard and was very lucky that a young faculty member named John Hutchinson agreed to be my thesis adviser. My PhD thesis involved the finite strain, finite element analysis of a two dimensional periodic array of circular holes (motivated by the pioneering ductile fracture studies of Frank McClintock and Jim Rice). This initiated me into two emerging developments in solid mechanics: finite element methods and materials mechanics. As John Hutchinson remarked in his Timoshenko Medal address, we did not realize we were participating in a revolution. At that time finite element methods were not well regarded by much of the solid mechanics community. Too many years passed before computational mechanics was accepted and integrated into mainstream solid mechanics. I am pleased that the situation is very different now as evidenced by the Timoshenko Medal having been awarded to Oleg Zienkiewicz, Tinsley Oden, Ted Belytschko and Tom Hughes. Materials mechanics was more readily accepted and became a source of wonderfully challenging problems. It has stimulated the development of new mechanics theories and experimental methods, particularly those aimed at understanding small size scale phenomena. Conversely, it has led to solid mechanics having a significant impact on materials science and engineering. I finished my PhD work at Harvard in the summer of 1970 and got a job as an Instructor in Applied Mathematics at MIT. To start my research career, I decided to build on my expertise and proposed analyzing a two dimensional array of elliptical holes. You can imagine my disappointment when no one showed any interest in this or any willingness to support it. So I dropped it and decided to work on something that excited me which was an idea in the literature that tensile necking, like buckling, could be regarded as a bifurcation. I thought it would be fun to do the bifurcation analysis and calculate the subsequent neck development using finite elements. That worked out well and I was asked to give a seminar on this work by Harvey Greenspan, then the head of Applied Math. He gave me some sage advice No one every complained that a lecture was too short. I have tried, not always successfully, to follow his advice. The title of my talk was Necking in Bars. To the best of my knowledge it is the only MIT Applied Math talk ever listed in the entertainment section of the local paper. Midway through my stay at MIT I had a leave of absence at the Technical University of Denmark and began my collaboration with Viggo Tvergaard. Viggo and I worked on buckling and when I came

Thank you, Ares for your kind introduction. I am greatly honored to have my name added to the list

back from Denmark I got excited about a plastic buckling issue. My idea was that the socalled plastic buckling paradox could be resolved by considering three dimensional effects. I mentioned my idea to John Hutchinson who knew I was clearly wrong but didn't try to dampen my enthusiasm. I am grateful for that. Eventually I realized I was wrong, learned how to differentiate between excitement and insight, and to accept being wrong and then move on. During my time at MIT I was free to pursue whatever excited me and was able to develop my own research style. After five years at MIT I was told my services were no longer needed and I was extremely fortunate to wind up at Brown. One area I worked on when I started at Brown was necking problems related to sheet metal forming. I gave a presentation on some of that work at a Canadian Applied Mechanics Conference. I don't remember my talk but I do remember that, at least in one respect, my presentation was the hit of the conference. The speaker at the conference dinner was the Minister of Education of British Columbia. She began her speech by saying that she had been looking through the book of abstracts during dinner and the titles meant nothing to her until she came across Necking in Thin Sheets. That title she could relate to. But she had one question, Why do the sheets have to be thin? Fortunately, I was sitting too far in the back to be expected to provide an answer. There was a great deal of intellectual excitement in solid mechanics at Brown in the late 1970s. Much of it stemmed from Jim Rice who had many original and deep ideas, and was generous in sharing them. One topic was the coupling of grain boundary diffusion and plastic creep in polycrystalline metals. Plastic deformation could effectively shorten diffusion lengths so there could be a synergistic effect. Quantifying this required numerical calculations. That's where I came in. The finite element formulation of this problem involved creating a stiffness matrix with surface terms accounting for grain boundary diffusion in addition to the usual volumetric terms. The calculations quantified a significant synergistic effect. Years later the idea of a finite element formulation with separate constitutive descriptions for volumes and surfaces was to play a prominent role in my research. In the 1960s and 70s computations were carried out at a central university computer center and CPU time was a scarce resource. Programs were written on punch cards and submitted to computer operators over a counter not unlike the counter at a fast food restaurant. However, the turnaround time was measured in hours rather than minutes. What came back was a stack of paper that either contained error messages or a print out of numbers that hopefully corresponded to a meaningful result. Draftsmen were employed to turn the numbers into pictures. Computer terminals replaced cards toward the end of this period but the rest of the process was pretty much the same. A huge change came at the end of the 70s when the solid mechanics group at Brown acquired a dedicated computer for computational mechanics, a DEC VAX 780. This acquisition provided me with a lesson in humility. The DEC salesman mentioned that the standard VAX configuration included one 67 MByte disk. He asked if I wanted to purchase a second disk. I answered No, we'll never fill up 67 MBytes. The VAX 780 consisted of several refrigerator size cabinets and could do double precision floating point operations at about 0.14 MFlops. To put this in perspective it is less than 1/100 the speed of a modern smartphone. But we were thrilled with its performance and it opened up new possibilities for simulation. Again largely stimulated by Jim Rice's interests, I became involved in research on plastic flow localization (a seminal paper on that topic was coauthored by Jim and this years' Drucker Medalist John Rudnicki). The conditions for initiation were established but determining the evolution required computation. Viggo was visiting Brown and our first project on the VAX was calculating

shear band development using the J2corner theory that John Hutchinson and Jes Christoffersen had developed. I found it exciting to be able to simulate the evolution of such complex deformation patterns. I was so pleased with the resulting pictures that I brought a reprint home and proudly showed it to our 6 and 8 year old children saying Look what I did. One of them (I don't remember which) said No, you didn't. You're not smart enough. Mommy probably did it. Another lesson in humility. At about the time Viggo and I were doing our calculations Bob Asaro was investigating localized deformation in single crystals experimentally. In work with Bob and Dan Peirce we found that rate independent single crystal calculations completely broke down for a certain range of parameters of interest. Eventually we found that accounting for material rate dependence could eliminate the pathological behavior. Rate dependent single crystal calculations were able to simulate observed deformation responses remarkably well. An issue with the rate independent localization calculations with Viggo and Bob was that the formulation did not contain a material length scale. The band thickness and hence the post localization response were essentially determined by the finite element discretization rather than by any mechanism embedded in the modeling. Material rate dependence in effect led to the introduction of a length scale. Whether or not this is the governing length scale in a specific situation is another matter but we found that rate dependence can regularize localization problems. I like to think that our computations of localized deformation modes played a role in stimulating at least some of the subsequent work on incorporating a material length scale into continuum plasticity theories. Meanwhile Jim Rice, Ben Freund and their collaborators were carrying out pioneering studies in fracture mechanics. What got me excited was the possibility of using computation to directly simulate fracture. This led to a series of micromechanical fracture studies with Viggo. Again, a key issue is how to incorporate a length scale into the formulation. A main aim of the fracture simulations that Viggo and I (and now many others) are engaged in is to relate measurable and (hopefully) controllable features of a material's microstructure to its fracture resistance to provide a basis for designing more fracture resistant material systems. Rather than quantitative predictions these simulations seek to provide trends, scaling relations and insight into the mechanisms controlling toughness and ductility. Throughout my time at Brown there was a wonderful spirit of cooperation and interaction. Many of the projects I worked on came from discussions in the hallways or over lunch or coffee. Just to mention one example: my work on cohesive modeling started after an informal talk Steve Nutt gave where he showed some pictures of void nucleation at a fiber end in an AlSiC composite. The combination of Steve's micrographs and my earlier work with Jim Rice on grain boundary diffusion led to the idea to regard a continuum as consisting of both surfaces and volumes, with a constitutive relation for each. Hence, an initial crack was not needed to use a Barenblatt/Dugdale type cohesive relation. A cohesive framework introduces a length scale and can be used to create new free surface thus modeling crack initiation. The computer code from the grain boundary diffusion work had the infrastructure to implement this. In subsequent work, with Ares Rosakis and later with Yehuda BenZion, we analyzed rupture propagation along surfaces described by frictional constitutive relations using basically the same computational infrastructure. There were group grants at Brown that made it possible to explore new areas of research without worrying about financial support (if you were not an experimentalist). Because of this I was able to develop my collaboration with Erik van der Giessen on discrete dislocation plasticity. Discrete

dislocation plasticity also introduces a length scale (in fact several length scales). So now instead of no length scale, identifying the governing length scale in a problem can be an issue. One of my favorite projects in this area was our work with Vikram Deshpande on fatigue crack growth that gave a fatigue threshold and a Paris law as natural outcomes of the simulations. Another was our work with Lucia Nicola and Joost Vlassak of Harvard which involved a direct comparison of our simulations for stress evolution in thin films with Joost's experiments. Quite generally, I regard what I do as solid mechanics simulation: an idealized model is created that is governed by the equations of mechanics which are then solved computationally. Such simulations can be a powerful tool for gaining insight into features that are not directly accessible experimentally. Comparison of predicted observables with experiment is a winwin situation: agreement gives confidence in the predictions while disagreement can point the way to the development of improved theories and models. Another role for such simulations is to identify regions of parameter space that merit experimental exploration. I find it gratifying that this actually happened in work with Ares and Demir Coker. What has typically been missing from solid mechanics simulations is a statistical perspective. I will venture a prediction that a statistical perspective will become more prevalent in the future. Over my years at Brown I benefited enormously from collaborations with many people in addition to those named already. There isn't time to name them all but I will mention a sampling: extraordinary colleagues including Fong Shih, Subra Suresh, Michael Ortiz, K.S. Kim, Ben Freund, Rod Clifton and Bill Curtin; wonderful collaborators from around the world including Yves Brchet, Mort Gurtin, Norman Fleck, Xavier Oliver and Ren de Borst; and an excellent group of students and postdoc visitors including Nick Triantafyllidis, Rich Becker, Xiaopeng Xu, Amine Benzerga and Alfredo Huespe. I retired from Brown after being a faculty member for 34 years to be closer to grandchildren. I was very fortunate to get a position in the University of North Texas (UNT) Materials Science and Engineering Department which is in an exciting stage of development. Quite a few of my recent collaborators have been women researchers including Julia Greer, Elisabeth Bouchaud, Cate Brinson and Linda Schadler. I hope to be in the audience when the first female Timoshenko Medalist delivers her address. Finally, I'd like to thank my wife Wanda who has had her own career as an accomplished psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Because of her work schedule I had to be involved with family as well as pursue my career. I am very proud to be a Timoshenko Medalist. I am also proud that when our children were small I was known as a nursery school mommy. Those nursery school children are now both faculty members; Deborah in English Literature at UNT and Daniel in Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard (where I got my PhD). I close by expressing my appreciation for this extraordinary honor and thank everyone who made it happen.

Professor Alan Needleman University of North Texas

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DANIEL C. DRUCKER MEDAL

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, the medal honors Dr. Daniel Drucker and commemorates his service to the profession.

John W. Rudnicki

The 2011 Daniel C. Drucker Medal was conferred to Professor John W. Rudnicki, from Northwestern University for providing a new fundamental understanding of deformation instabilities in brittle rocks and granular media, including their interactions with pore fluids, with applications to fault instability, quantification of energy radiation from earthquakes, and environment and resourcerelated geomechanics.

WARNER T. KOITER MEDAL

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.

James G. Simmonds

The award was funded by the Technical University of Delft, 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. The 2011 Warner T. Koiter Medal was conferred to Professor James G. Simmonds from the University of Virginia for rigorous, seminal contributions to linear and nonlinear theories in solid mechanics with special emphasis on plates and shells; for an extensive body of journal publications and books on solid mechanics and applied mathematics.

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TED BELYTSCHKO APPLIED MECHANICS AWARD

The Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award is bestowed to an outstanding individual for significant contributions in the practice of engineering mechanics. The contributions of this individual may result from innovation, research, design, leadership or education. The award was established in 1988 and was renamed the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award in 2008.

Ken P. Chong

David K. Gartling

This year the AMD gave two awards to: Ken P. Chong (George Washington University) In recognition of his role as an educator, a journal editor and promoter of Mechanics, particularly in emerging areas David K. Gartling (Sandia National Laboratories) For his internationally regarded contributions to computational mechanics and pioneering developments in the application of the finite element method to fluid dynamics.

THOMAS J.R. HUGHES YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD

The Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award recognizes special achievement for young investigators in Applied Mechanics. The nominees must not have reached their 40th birthday at the time of nomination. The award was established in 1998 and renamed the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award in 2008.

Markus Buehler

Ioannis Chasiotis

This year the AMD gave two Young Investigator Awards. The recipients were: Markus Buehler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Received for exceptional contributions in computational mechanics of biological materials and structures, focused on deformation and failure in the context of both normal physiological, mechanically extreme and disease states through the utilization of atomistic, molecular, coarse grained and continuum methods Ioannis Chasiotis (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) Received in recognition of outstanding contributions to the understanding of the mechanics of fracture of polycrystalline and nanocrystalline thin films, and the time dependent mechanics of nanoscale polymeric fibers with pioneering fullfield experimental methods based on Atomic Force Microscopy and MEMS.

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THOMAS K. CAUGHEY DYNAMICS AWARD

The Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award was 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. The 2011 Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Awardee was Professor Philip Holmes from Princeton University

Philip Holmes

in recognition of his scholarly work in Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibrations. His work revolutionized engineering nonlinear dynamics and vibrations, bridging the gap between Applied Mathematics and Engineering through the application of powerful concepts and methodologies of nonlinear dynamics to engineering practice.

NEWS FROM THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEES

The reports that follow are from some of the Chairs of the Technical Committees of the Division of Applied Mechanics. If you are interested in the activities of a particular committee, please feel free to contact the Chair.

Composite Materials Committee

Chair: Hassan Mahfuz, Florida Atlantic University (20112013) Vice Chair: Ioannis Chasiotis, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign (20112013) This year, AMD Composite Materials Committee Meeting was held on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at Colorado Convention Center (Denver) Room 602, Street Level, at 1:00 PM 2:00 PM. 24 committee members were in attendance at the meeting. The symposia sponsored and cosponsored by the AMD Composite Committee in IMECE 2011 were a true success. A total of 12 symposia were organized with 24 sessions and 120 papers. Many symposia were cosponsored with the Materials Division. The following symposia were proposed for IMECE 2012: 1. MultiScale Modeling in Nanostructured Materials in Track 9, organized by Hassan Mahfuz and Leif Carlsson and sponsored by AMD 2. Structural Polymeric Nanocomposites: Synthesis and Performance Evaluation in Track 9, organized by Mahesh Hosur and Shaik Zainuddin and sponsored by AMD 3. Materials & MetaMaterials at Varying Length Scales and Frequency Ranges in Track 9, organized by Emmanuel Ayorinde, Joon Sang Lee, and Gary Witus and sponsored by AMD

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4. Composite Materials for Renewable Energy Systems in Track 9, organized by Hassan Mahfuz and David Miller and sponsored by AMD 5. Graphene Based Multifunctional Nanocomposites: Theory vs. Experiment in Track 9, organized by Kyriaki Kalaitzidou and sponsored by AMD 6. Effects of Environmental Aging on Properties of Advanced Materials in Track 9, organized by Mohammad Kamal Hossain and Shaik Zainuddin and sponsored by AMD and MD 7. Green and Biocompatible Nanocomposites in Track 9, organized by Mohammad Kamal Hossain and Nazmul Islam and cosponsored by AMD and MD 8. Multifunctional and Nanostructured Materials Modeling and Characterization in Track 9, organized by XinLin Gao and Jaehyung Ju and cosponsored by AMD and MD 9. Novel Approaches in Heterogeneous Materials Analysis and Characterization in Track 9, organized by Assimina Pelegri, Valeria Saponara and Yu Su and cosponsored by AMD and MD 10. Mechanics of Composite Structures and Health Monitoring Sensors in Track 9, organized by Valeria Saponara and Massimo Ruzzene and cosponsored by AMD and MD 11. Multiscale Mechanics of Composites with Coupled Mechanical and Nonmechanical Behaviors in Track 9, organized by Anastasia Muliana, Vikas Tomar, Rani ElHajjar, Valeria Saponara and Massimo Ruzzene and cosponsored by AMD and MD 12. Nanocomposites in Track 9, organized by Mrinal Saha, Hassan Mahfuz and Davood Askari and cosponsored by AMD and MD 13. Nanoengineered Materials for Energy Applications in Track 9, organized by Gobinda Saha and cosponsored by AMD and MD 14. Fracture, Defects Certification and Repair of Composites in Track 9, organized by Naveen Rastogi and sponsored by AMD 15. Mechanics of Composite Materials for Power Applications in Track 9, organized by Ioannis Chasiotis, Kyriaki Kalaitzidou, and Antonia Antoniou and sponsored by AMD 16. Bioinspired Materials in Track 9, organized by Philippe Geubelle, Kyriaki Kalaitzidou, and Antonia Antoniou and sponsored by AMD The meeting was adjourned at 2:15 PM. Hassan Mahfuz, Chair hmahfuz@fau.edu

Dynamics and Control of Systems and Structures Committee

At the upcoming ASME IMECE 2012, Albert Luo, Dumitru Caruntu, and Liming Dai are the organizers of Track 4 Dynamics, Control, and Uncertainty, and Ahmed AlJumaily the Organizer of Track 2 Biomedical and Biotechnology. DCSS committee members organized 11 symposia totaling a number of 188 papers and 33 sessions at the upcoming ASME IMECE 2012 as follows. Dumitru I. Caruntu, Marco Amabili, and Bogdan Epureanu, organized 3 symposia spread over 2 tracks and 11 sessions and totaling 60 papers: (a) Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Biomechanical Systems, Track 2 Biomedical and Biotechnology Engineering, Organizers: Dumitru I. Caruntu, Bogdan Epureanu, (b) Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics, Control, and Stochastic Mechanics, Track 4 Dynamics, Control, and Uncertainty, Organizers: Marco Amabili, Bogdan Epureanu, and Dumitru I. Caruntu, (c) and Symposium on Dynamics and Control in Micro/Nano

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Engineering, Track 4 Dynamics, Control, and Uncertainty, Organizers: Dumitru I. Caruntu, Bogdan Epureanu, and Marco Amabili. Ahmed AlJumaily, Albert Luo, Hamid Hamidzadeh, Liming Dai, Matthew Brake, Andrew Dick, Ioannis Georgiou, Annie Tangpong, organized 8 symposia, in Track 2 and Track 4 spread over 22 sessions totaling a number of 128 papers: (a) Symposium on Vibration and Acoustics in Biomedical Applications, Track 2 Biomedical and Biotechnology Engineering, Organizer: Ahmed AlJumaily, (b) Symposium on Dynamics and Vibration for Design, Track 4 Dynamics, Control, and Uncertainty, Organizers: Annie Tangpong, Matthew Brake, (c) Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Synchronization in Dynamical Systems, Track 4 Dynamics, Control, and Uncertainty, Organizers: Albert Luo, Hamid Hamidzadeh, (d) Symposium on Optimal Approaches in Nonlinear Dynamics and Acoustics, Track 4 Dynamics, Control, and Uncertainty, Organizer: Liming Dai, (e) Symposium on Impact Dynamics and Mechanics, Track 4 Dynamics, Control, and Uncertainty, Organizer: Matthew Brake, (f) Symposium on Modeling for Control, Diagnostics & Prognostics of Systems, Track 4 Dynamics, Control, and Uncertainty, Organizer: Ioannis Georgiou, (g) Symposium on Controls Theory and Application, Track 4 Dynamics, Control, and Uncertainty, Organizers: Matthew Brake, Andrew Dick, Annie Tangpong, (h) Symposium on Dynamics Modeling, Theory, and Application, Track 4 Dynamics, Control, and Uncertainty, Organizers: Matthew Brake, Annie Tangpong. Dumitru I. Caruntu, Chair caruntud@utpa.edu

Experimental Mechanics Committee

The Experimental Mechanics Technical Committee met on Nov. 14, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Junlan Wang, University of Washington. The secretary, Dr. Frank Delrio from National Institute of Standard and Technology, started his two year terms till June 2013. The meeting was attended by Prof. Rani ElHajjar (University of WisconsinMilwaukee), Antonia Antoniou (Georgia Institute of Technology), Nanshu Lu (University of Texas Austin), Sergey Kurywtsev (Kazan State Technical University). We discussed the symposia which were held in Denver: Modeling and Experiments in Nanomechanics and Nanomaterials Organizers: Yozo Mikata (Lockheed Martin) and Jeff Kysar (Columbia University) Constitutive and Failure Response of Thin Films and Multilayered Structures Organizers: Junlan Wang, Philippe Geubelle (UIUC), Jizhou Song (U. Miami), Frank DelRio Cosponsorship with AMD Elasticity committee and Fracture and Failure Mechanics committee In collaboration with several other technical committees (TC), we proposed the following symposia for 2012 ASME IMECE in Houston, TX: Modeling and Experiments in Nanomechanics and Nanomaterials Yozo Mikata and Jeff Kysar Mechanics of Thin Films and Multilayered Structures Junlan Wang, Jizhou Song AMD Elasticity TC), and Philippe Geubelle (AMD Fracture and Failure TC) Mechanical Behavior of Composites with Coupled Mechanical and Nonmechanical behavior Rani ElHajjar Nanotribology of thin films Frank DelRio, Yong Zhu Cosponsorship with Materials Division Multifunctional Materials TC

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The next committee meeting will be held in Houston. We look forward to seeing everyone and hearing new proposals for symposia at future conferences. We will also elect a new secretary whose term starts in July 2013. Junlan Wang, Chair junlan@u.washington.edu

Committee on FluidStructure Interaction

Yet another successful year for the Committee on FluidStructure Interaction (CFSI). We focused on the following activities: CFSI organized the following workshops and mini symposia at international conferences: 1. Mini symposium on FluidStructure Interaction at the International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering (Marine 2011) held in Lisbon in September 2011. 2. FSI Workshop held at the University of Tokyo in March 2011. The workshop and mini symposia speakers included leading US and international computational mechanics researchers. CFSI started a new activity this year. Together with Prof. Tayfun Tezduyar (former Chair of the AMD Executive Committee and CFSI) we developed a short course on Computational Fluid Mechanics and FluidStructure Interaction. The course is targeted toward advanced graduate students, postdocs, and national lab and industry researchers. A short version of the course was offered for the first time as a part of the FSI Workshop held at the University of Tokyo. A twoweek version of the short course was offered in June 2011 at the University of Rome III, with participation form Profs. Rispoli and Corsini, who are leading researchers in computational turbomachinery applications. We have plans to continue offering the short course on an annual or semiannual basis. More details on the short course may be found at the following links: http://save.sys.t.utokyo.ac.jp/LecFSI12/ http://www.tafsm.org/RCFMFSI/ Together with Prof. Tezduyar the CFSI Chairs edited two special issues on Computational Fluid Mechanics and FluidStructure Interaction in leading international archival journals, Computational Mechanics and Journal of Applied Mechanics. The special issue articles are found at the following links: http://www.springerlink.com/content/01787675/48/3/ http://asmedl.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=JAMCAV&Volume=79&Issue=1 Together with Prof. Tezduyar the CFSI Chairs are organizing ACM 2013, a conference celebrating the 70th birthday of Prof. Thomas J.R. Hughes. ACM 2013, to be held in San Diego, CA on February 2427, 2013, will attract a large number of US and international participants who are leading researchers in computational mechanics. The birthday conference will accommodate the

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International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems (FEF) as a special track. More details are found at the following link: http://th70.tafsm.org/frontal/default.asp Yuri Bazilevs, Chair jbazilevs@ucsd.edu Kenji Takizawa, CoChair ktakiz@tafsm.org

Technical Committee on Integrated Structures

Chair: Teng Li (University of Maryland) Cochair: Nathan Wicks (Schlumberger Inc.) Secretary: Nanshu Lu (University of Texas at Austin) Committee members: Rui Huang (University of Texas at Austin), Jun He (Intel Inc.), Xiaohu Liu (IBM Inc.), Vivek Shenoy (Brown University), Sulin Zhang (Penn State University) In the past year, the Technical Committee (TC) on Integrated Structures in the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME has continued our tradition to build a stronger and diversified community by integrating scholars and researchers from both academia and industry. We would like to take the chance to thank Dr. Jun He from Intel Inc. for his outstanding service and leadership to our committee as Cochair from industry since 2006. At the upcoming 2012 IMECE in Houston, we will welcome Dr. Nathan Wicks from Schlumberger Inc. to serve as the new Cochair from industry, and Dr. Nanshu Lu from the University of Texas at Austin to serve as the Secretary of our committee. Our TC continues to work hard and build momentum through organizing symposia and sessions at national and international conferences. At IMECE 2011, our TC organized a topic area in Mechanics of Integrated Structures and Materials in Advanced Technologies (Topic 1234) with five sessions in the Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids track. Our symposium featured three keynote talks by Prof. Zhigang Suo (Harvard University), Prof. Huajian Gao (Brown University) and Prof. Ganesh Subbarayan (Purdue University). At the 2011 ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference (McMAT), our TC organized a symposium on low dimension carbon nanomaterials with five sessions, featuring keynote presentations by Prof. Boris I. Yakobson (Rice University), Prof. Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University), Prof. Vivek Shenoy (Brown University) and Prof. Ju Li (University of Pennsylvania). For upcoming conferences, our TC continues our tradition to organize a sevensession symposium on Mechanics of Integrated Structures and Materials in Advanced Technologies at IMECE 2012 (Topic 935). The committee members who have participated the session organization are: Nathan Wicks, Teng Li, Rui Huang, Sulin Zhang, Nanshu Lu, and Xiaohu Liu. Topics of interests include, but not limited to the following areas: Mechanics and materials in energy systems, lowdimensional carbon materials, flexible and stretchable electronics, microelectronics, electronic and photonic packaging, MEMS/NEMS, and biological and bioinspired materials and structures. Our symposium at IMECE 2012 will feature five keynote talks by Prof. Robert McMeeking (UCSB), Prof. Jianming Qu (Northwestern University), Prof. Boris I. Yakobson (Rice University), Prof. John Rogers (UIUC) and Dr. Xiaopeng Xu (Synopsys, Inc.). The committee chair Teng Li is also coorganizing the Symposium in honor of the recipient of the Prager Medal

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(Zhigang Suo) at the 49th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES2012) to be held at Georgia Institute of Technology in Oct. 2012. We would like to thank our colleagues and friends who have contributed to our TC in the past years and we would like to encourage more members of the Applied Mechanics community to participate in the activities of the Integrated Structures Technical Committee as well as providing suggestions and help. Teng Li, Chair LiT@umd.edu Nathan Wicks, Cochair nwicks@slb.com Nanshu Lu, Secretary nanshulu@utexas.edu

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