Fred Lange passed away on Friday
Frederick F. Lange, Professor of Materials, of the University of California at Santa Barbara, passed away suddenly on Friday, in Tucson, after watching his daughter defend her PhD.
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Subra Suresh in line to be the Director of the National Science Foundation
Subra Suresh, the Dean of Engineering, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is in line to become the next Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), according to this post at Science.
The NSF director must be confirmed by the Senate, although it would be unusual for a nominee to attract any opposition.
Question on history of mechanics
A question for those interested in the history of mechanics. We have Hooke's law for 2D stress-strain and a generalised Hooke's law for 3D stress states. Maybe I have missed something in my reading of history, but since it appears that it was Thomas Young and not Hooke who related stress and strain (Hooke looked only at force - displacement), why don't we use Young's law or a generalised Young's law?
Iain Finnie passed away
Iain Finnie passed away in December. At the time he was the James Fife Professor Emeritus U.C. Berkeley Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
Iain had an amazing number of contributions spanning diverse area of mechanics. To the best of my recollection:
He published some great early work on the shear angle in metal cutting in 1953.
He published the first book on creep in 1959 with William Heller.
He published a (the?) pioneering paper on erosion in 1960.
2009 Nathan M. Newmark Medal
C. S. Desai Is Recipient of the 2009 Nathan M. Newmark Medal
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~csdesai/
Regents’ Professor Chandra Desai has been awarded the 2009 Nathan M.
Newmark Medal by the Structural Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Institutes of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
http://www.asce.org/pressroom/honors/winners/?w=newmark
Young Huang has been selected to appear on ISIHighlyCited.com
Congratulations to Prof. Yonggang Huang who has been selected to appear on ISIHighlyCited.com because of his exceptional citation count in the field of Engineering.
http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=6498
A new Technical Committee on Soft Materials
A growing number of mechanicians are entering the field of soft materials, such as polymers, gels, and tissues. While they interact with researchers in technical societies traditionally identified with the field, they also maintain connection with researchers in applied mechanics.
Jerrold E. Marsden will receive the 2010 Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award
With great pleasure I inform you that Jerrold E. Marsden, of Caltech, are selected to receive the 2010 Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award.
I am writing on behalf of the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award Committee: Zhigang Suo (Chair), Tayfun E. Tezduyar, Ares J. Rosakis, Kenneth M. Liechti, Lawrence A. Bergman, Daniel J. Inman, Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar, Thomas N. Farris, Wing Kam Liu, Mary C. Boyce, Paul Jennings, Geof Tomlinson, and Ali Nayfeh.
Yoichiro Matsumoto will receive the 2010 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award
With great pleasure I inform you that Yoichiro Matsumoto, of the University of Tokyo, is selected to receive the 2010 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award.
Harley Johnson will receive the 2010 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award
Harley T. Johnson has just been selected to receive the 2010 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.
I am writing on behalf of the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award Committee: Zhigang Suo (Chair), Tayfun E. Tezduyar, Ares J. Rosakis, Kenneth M. Liechti, Lawrence A. Bergman, Daniel J. Inman, Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar, Thomas N. Farris, Wing Kam Liu, and Mary C. Boyce.