ICF AWARDS

Every four years, ICF  bestows four gold medals, to honor Takeo Yokobori, Alan Cottrell, George Irwin and Paul Paris, and one silver medal, to honor Constance Tipper, together with the award of several ICF Honorary Fellows.

We are pleased to announce the ICF Medal recipients for ICF-15

ICF Takeo Yokobori Gold Medal

Prof. Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar-  For major contributions in the leadership of ICF & outstanding research in the field of fracture.      

Prof. Shouwen Yu-  For spearheading the role of China in the development & effectiveness of ICF.

ICF Alan Cottrell Gold Medal

Prof. Anthony J. Kinloch-  For seminal contributions to the adhesion of solids & superior properties of polymer composites.

Prof. R. Narasimhan- For an outstanding career in the development and applications of fracture mechanics

ICF George Irwin Gold Medal

Prof. William A. Curtin- For pioneering contributions to multiscale mechanics modeling of materials.

Prof. Huajian Gao  (Singapore)- For leadership & major contributions on the mechanics of engineering & biological materials.

Prof. Norman Fleck- For seminal contributions to the deformation & failure of solids & structures.                                                                                                                                                        

ICF Paul C. Paris Gold Medal

Prof. Shiro Kubo- For his seminal contributions to the field of creep and creep-fatigue fractures emanating from cracks in metals

Prof. David L. McDowell- For the development of microstructure-sensitive constitutive models for material failure.

Prof. Huseyin Sehitoglu- For major contributions on the complexity of fatigue failure of a broad range of materials.

ICF Constance Tipper Silver Medal

Dr. Filippo Berto- For critical understanding of the fracture of complex materials, including metamaterials.

Dr. Dong Liu- For innovative research on high-temperature material failure, especially for nuclear applications

Dr. Ashley Spear- For innovative research in simulating 3-D cracking and multi-scale modeling of fracture in metals

ICF Honorary Fellow

Prof. Robert M. McMeeking- For advancements in theoretical and computational mechanics for enhancing the understanding of the performance of materials

ICF Honorary Fellow

Prof. Yukitaka Murakami-  For seminal contributions to the understanding of the fatigue behavior of materials and structures

ICF Honorary Fellow

Dr. L. R. Francis Rose- For the development of fracture mechanics-based methods for structural health monitoring

List of ICF Fellows

1.     A.S. Argon 1983 35.  Brian Lawn 2005
2.     M.F. Ashby 1983 36.  H. Liebowitz* 1979
3.     S. N Atluri 1993 37.  Y.-W. Mai 2001
4.     B. Averbach* 1977 38.  F.A. McClintock* 1989
5.     Leslie Banks-Sills 2005 39.  A. J. McEvily 2009
6.     G.I. Barenblatt* 2009 40.  K.J. Miller* 1997
7.     B.A. Bilby* 1981 41.  J. Nemec 1984
8.     A.J. Carlsson 1983 42.  R.W. Nichols* 1977
9.     Alberto Carpinteri 2009 43.  P.C. Paris* 1989
10.  G.P. Cherapnov 1989 44.  V.V. Panasyuk 1993
11.  A.H. Cottrell* 1984 45.  A. Pineau 1993
12.  Robert Dodds 2005 46.  Y. Rabatnov 1984
13.  M. Elboujdaini 2009 47.  K. Ravi-Chandar 2001
14.  David Embury 2009 48.  J.R. Rice 1981
15.  Fazel  Erdogan 2005 49.  R.O. Ritchie 1989
16.  A.G. Evans* 1993 50.  K.S. Salama 1993
17.  D. Francois* 1983 51.  J. L. Swedlow* 1989
18.  E. Gdoutos 2009 52.  G.C. Sih 1979
19.  W.W. Gerberich 2001 53.  A. Saxena 2009
20.  R.V. Goldstein* 1993 54.  D.M.R. Taplin 1977
21.  K.C. Hwang 2001 55.  S.R. Valluri* 1984
22.  A.K. Head* 1997 56.  A.A. Wells* 1989
23.  J.W. Hutchinson 1989 57.  Gordon Williams 2005
24.  A. Ingraffea 2009 58.  M.L. Williams* 1989
25.  G.R. Irwin* 1981 59.  T. Yokobori* 1977
26.  T. Kanazawa* 1984 60.  Shouwen Yu 2005
27.  B.L. Karihaloo 2001 61.  Zheng Zhimin 1984
28.  T. Kawasaki 1981 62.  S.N. Zhurkov* 1986
29.  A. Kelly 2009 63.  Tongyi Zhang 2013
30.  F. Kerkof 1984 64.  A. T. Yokobori 2013
31.  Albert Kobayashi 2005 65.  Claude Bathais* 2013
32.  W.G. Knaus 1997 66.  Wei Yang 2013
33.  J. F. Knott* 1984 67.  Stephen D. Antolovich 2013
34.  A. Kochendorfer* 1977

 

List of Past ICF Gold and Silver Medal Recipients

Takeo Yokobori Gold Medal
David M.R. Taplin 2009
P. Rama Rao 2013
Yiu Wing Mai 2013
Teruo Kishi 2013
Emmanuel Gdoutos 2017
A.T. Yokobori 2017
Alan Cottrell Gold Medal
Robert O. Ritchie 2009
Subra Suresh 2013
John F. Knott 2013
Michael F. Ashby 2017
George Irwin Gold Medal
Paul C. Paris 2009
James R. Rice 2013
John Hutchinson 2013
Robert V. Goldstein 2017
Paul C. Paris Gold Medal
Alberto Carpinteri 2013
Y. Murakami 2013
Ashok Saxena 2017
Richard Hertzberg 2017
Constance Tipper Silver Medal
Julia King 2013
Diane Lados 2013
Namrata Gundiah 2013
Sylvie Pommier 2017
Francesco Iacoviello 2017

 

2023 Poster Awards

1st Place Post Doctoral Researcher Poster Presentation,  “FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR OF HPT PROCESSED MARAGING STEELS” by Kevin Jacob

2nd Place Post Doctoral Researcher Poster Presentation, “CRACK GROWTH UNDER THERMO-MECHANICAL FATIGUE IN NICKEL CAST ALLOYS” by Karl Michael Kraemer

3rd Place Post Doctoral Researcher Poster Presentation, “FULL FIELD MEASUREMENT OF SHOCK COMPRESSION DEFORMATION ACROSS THE CRYSTAL BINDER INTERFACE OF PDMS-SUCROSE USING TIME RESOLVED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY” by Mahavir Singh

1st Place Student Poster Presentation, “ON THE STRENGTH AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED CrCoNi MEDIUM ENTROPY ALLOY” by David Cook

2nd Place Student Poster Presentation, “GRAIN BOUNDARY SLIDING AND INTRAGRANULAR SLIP MEASUREMENT IN-SITU DURING CREEP “ by Benjamin Elbrecht

3rd Place Student Poster Presentation, “FLOWFORMING TO IMPROVE THE FATIGUE LIFE OF ORTHOPAEDIC IMPLANTS?” by Mohamed Akram Mechter