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J.1 AAM: Ravi-Chandar...... 1 J.2 AIAA: Chen...... 2 J.3 AIChE: Higdon ...... 3 J.4 AMS: Kinderlehrer...... 5 J.5 APS: Foss...... 5 J.6 ASA: Norris...... 6 J.7 ASCE: Iwan...... 7 J.8 ASME: Kyriakides...... 8 J.9 ASTM: Chona ...... 9 J.10 SEM: Shukla ...... 11 J.11 SES: Jasiuk...... 13 J.12 SIAM: Healey...... 14 J.13 SNAME: Karr...... 15 J.14 SOR: Graham ...... 17 J.15 USACM: Fish ...... 17
J.1 AAM: Ravi-Chandar
The American Academy of Mechanics (Period: April 1, 2007 to May 31, 2008) The primary objective of the AAM is the advancement of the science and profession of mechanics in the Americas. Professor Rohan Abeyaratne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the President of the Academy. The Office of the Academy is located at the University of California, Santa Barbara, collocated with the Secretary of the Academy, Professor McMeeking. Professor Chad Landis, University of Texas at Austin, is the Treasurer and Professor Rui Huang, University of Texas at Austin, maintains the website for the Academy. The Academy has 632 members including 200 fellows. The objectives of the Academy are achieved through the many activities of the Academy, such as the web site at http://www.AAMech.org, the bi-monthly publication Mechanics and the bi-annual PACAM conferences. The print version of Mechanics now accepts peer-reviewed review articles and essays on new technologies, teaching methodologies, and research challenges. Professor Alberto Cutino is the Editor of Mechanics. The web site enhances utility of the published version of Mechanics contents through use of web links to the various journals, archives of articles, and link to other organizations that have similar interests. Reprints of selected articles from other archival sources that are of interest to the mechanics community as selected by the editor are published in the Journal as well. The Tenth Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM X) was held January 7-11, 2008, in Cancun, Mexico. The conference was chaired by Professor Thomas Attard (California State University, Fresno). The details of the meeting may be found on the conference website: http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~tattard/pacam_x_meeting.htm. Looking ahead, Professors Paulo Lyra and Silvana Afonso from Brazil have agreed to host the PACAM in 2010. In an effort to promote additional interaction between its members, the Academy decided to sponsor a Mechanics Conference every 4-years when the ICTAM is held outside the USA. The First American Academy of Mechanics Conference will be held in New Orleans, June 17-20, 2008; Professor George Voyiadjis is the Conference Chairman. The details of the conference can be found at the following website: http://firstaam2008.lsu.edu/index.php. A meeting of the Board of Directors, the meeting of the Fellows, and open meeting of the Members of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) was held in Seattle WA, on November 13, 2007, in conjunction with the 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. General business
April 9, 2008 1 Appendix J 2008 Society Reports USNC/TAM matters were discussed, including the PACAM Committee report, and the Mechanics publication. The President of AAM, Professor Rohan Abeyaratne, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), chaired the meeting. Professor Robert McMeeding, Secretary, recorded the minutes. Based on ballots were mailed to current Fellows, and were opened and counted by the Secretary of the Fellows, Professor K.M. Liechti. The following were elected Fellows of the Academy: Professor Jacob Fish, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski, University of Illinois. AAM Founder's Prize and Grant have been awarded to Mr. Xuanhe Zhao of Harvard University and Mr. Yuebing Zheng of Pennsylvania State University. Their winning essays and information about the Founder's Prize and Grant are available at the society website.
J.2 AIAA: Chen
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has been the principal society of the aerospace engineer and scientist. With more than 31,000 members, AIAA is the world's largest professional society devoted to the progress of engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense. The mission of the Institute is to advance the arts, sciences, and technology of aeronautics and astronautics, and to promote the professionalism of those engaged in these pursuits. To achieve this mission, AIAA encourages original research, furthers dissemination of new knowledge; fosters the professional development of those engaged in science and engineering, improves public understanding of aerospace and its contributions; fosters education in engineering and science; promotes communication among engineers, scientists, and other professional groups; and stimulates outstanding professional accomplishments. The Institute is the principal voice, information resource, and publisher for aerospace engineers, scientists, managers, policymakers, students, and educators. Over the past 70+ years, AIAA and its predecessor organizations have published more than 1000 titles and 300,000 meeting papers. Current publications include seven journals, two magazines, three book series, national and international standards, growing numbers of electronic products, and a full-service, interactive web site. AIAA is also the go-to resource for stimulating professional accomplishment and standards-driven excellence in all areas of aerospace for prominent corporations and government organizations worldwide. Drawing on the vast expertise of its membership, AIAA has 21 Standing Committees that help the Institute achieve its multi-faceted mission and guide its course into the future. The Technical Activities Committee (TAC) develops and recommends procedures relating to matters concerning technical and professional activities. The TAC is organized to 70 Technical Committees (TC). These TCs bring together experts in their fields and given them the opportunity to exchange knowledge and get to know their colleagues from around the globe. These committees develop and administer over 20 technical conferences each year; conduct professional development courses, produce books, and work with K-12 students to promote an interest in engineering education. The TCs also honor technical leadership through Technical and Best Paper awards; serve as journal and book reviewers; formulate technology assessment packages for the non- technical public, and even develop and judge college student design contests. Technical Committees of interest to the theoretical and applied mechanics community include adaptive structures, aeronautics, applied aerodynamics, astrodynamics, design engineering, energetics, flight mechanics, fluid dynamics, materials, propulsion, structures, and structural dynamics. The active public policy and public information programs make AIAA a leading advocate for aerospace among government decision-makers - and a trusted information resource for the media on all subjects relating to aerospace technology. These programs include developing authoritative position papers on important policy issues; conducting workshops that present their findings to key public opinion leaders; providing timely information in response to breaking events and initiatives; coordinating expert testimony and information presented to Congress; fostering relationships with the media and the public to give them a better understanding of how aerospace programs benefit the nation's economy, security, and technological growth. The 11th AIAA annual Congressional Visits Day will be held April 16, 2008 in Washington DC. This is an annual event that brings scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, and technology executives to Washington to raise visibility and support for science, engineering, and technology.
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Mechanics-related AIAA Conferences within the year (Apr. 2008-Mar. 2009) are: • 49th Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Schaumburg, IL, 7 - 10 Apr 2008 • 14th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Vancouver, Quebec, Canada, 5 - 7 May 2008 • 38th Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, Seattle, Washington, 23 - 26 Jun 2008 26th Aerodynamic Measurement Technology and Ground Testing Conference, Seattle, Washington, 23 - 26 Jun 2008 • 5th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference, Seattle, Washington, 23 - 26 Jun 2008 • 26th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 18 - 21 Aug 2008 • Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference and Exhibit, Honolulu, Hawaii, 18 - 21 Aug 2008 • Astrodynamics Specialist Conference and Exhibit, Honolulu, Hawaii, 18 - 21 Aug 2008 • Missile Sciences Conference, Monterey, California, 18 - 20 Nov 2008 • 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, 5 - 8 Jan 2009
Mechanics-related awards (2008 Recipients) are: • Aeroacoustics Award: Walter Eversman, University of Missouri-Rolla • Aerodynamic Measurement Tech Award: Robert Lucht, Purdue University • Aerodynamics Award: Ramesh Agarwal, Washington University in St. Louis • Crichlow Trust Prize (2007, awarded every 4 years): Earl Dowell, Duke University • Fluid Dynamics Award: Marvin Goldstein, NASA Glenn Research Center • Structures, Structural Dynamics, & Materials Award: Henry Yang, UC Santa Barbara
AIAA Contacts: AIAA Headquarters 1801 Alexander Bell Drive Suite 500 Reston, VA 20191-4344 Phone: 703/264-7500 or (800) 639-AIAA Fax: 703/264-7551
AIAA Western Office 999 Sepulveda Blvd. Suite 440 El Segundo CA 90245 Phone: 310/726-5000 or (800) 683-AIAA Fax: 310/726-5004
Weinong Wayne Chen April 2008
J.3 AIChE: Higdon
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS The American Institute of Chemical Engineers is the principal technical society for chemical engineering; it has over 40,000 members and 7000 student members. In 2008, it is celebrating its 100th year in serving the chemical engineering profession. There is no division of mechanics, but there is a division of Materials Engineering and Science, the North American Mixing Forum, and the Particle Technology Forum. The forums include non-AIChE members. The principal programming entity in the mechanics area is the Fluid Mechanics Programming Subcommittee (Area 1j). There are also programming committees in transport
April 9, 2008 3 Appendix J 2008 Society Reports USNC/TAM phenomena, interfacial phenomena and computational methods, as well as for the divisions and forums listed above. Technical programming efforts in the AIChE are overseen by the Executive Board of the National Programming Committee. Executive Board members in the mechanics area currently include James Hill (Iowa State). AIChE is managed by Executive Director John Sofranko in New York City and governed by an elected board of officers and directors. The 2007 Annual AIChE Meeting was held November 4-9, 2006 in Salt Lake City, UT with over 80 sessions on fluid mechanics, interfacial phenomena, mixing, particulates and multiphase flow, polymers and rheology. There were 12 sessions on fundamental research in fluid mechanics. The technical program for the 2007 meeting (as well as earlier meetings) is available at the AIChE website. The 2008 Annual AIChE Meeting will be held November 16- 21, 2008 in Philadelphia, PA. Meeting announcements appear in the newspaper AIChExtra, an insert in the monthly magazine Chemical Engineering Progress, and on the web-page at the URL http://www.aiche.org/. There will be 15 sessions organized by the Fluid Mechanics Programming Subcommittee. The Call for Papers deadline is May 11, 2008.
AIChE contacts:
American Institute of Chemical Engineers 3 Park Avenue Phone: 800-AIChemE or 212-591-7338 New York, NY 10016-5991 Fax: 212-591-8888 Email: [email protected] Web page at http://www.aiche.org/
President Dale Keairns Email: [email protected]
Executive Director: John Sofranko (NY office) Tel: 212-591-7330 Fax: 212-591-8890 Email: [email protected]
AICHE - Institute Awards in 2007
• Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute Thomas M. Truskett, University of Texas at Austin
• Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research Antonios Mikos, Rice University
• Award for Service to Society Richard D. Noble
• Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology Yi Hua Ma, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Award in Chemical Engineering Practice Neil Yeoman, Koch-Glitsch LP
• Professional Progress Award for Outstanding Progress in Chemical Engineering, Jay Keasling, University of California, Berkeley
• Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education
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Tim Anderson, University of Florida
• R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering Matt Neurock, University of Virginia
• Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering Gregory Stephanopoulos, MIT
J.4 AMS: Kinderlehrer
American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society has a broad membership (28,000 individual + 550 institutional members), whose interests cover the entire range of mathematics activity. AMS sponsors a major annual meeting (January) and numerous regional meetings throughout the year; they are listed in the monthly Notices of the AMS and on the AMS website (www.ams.org). Frequently there are plenary lectures and/or special sessions devoted to topics such as fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, control theory, or dynamical systems. The Society's publication activities include Mathematical Reviews. Of special note this reporting period is that the president of the AMS (2007-2009) is Prof. James Glimm, of SUNY Stoney-Brook, who is a well known expert on shock waves and fluid motion. He is a recipient of the National Medal of Science. The Society awards a number of prizes with mechanics interest. The 2007 Wiener Prize, after Norbert Wiener, was awarded to Craig Tracy and Harold Widom. The Notices of the AMS frequently have artices of interest to mechanics. For example, an essay on quantum chaos by Ze'ev Rudick in the January 2008 issue discusses non-integrable dynamical systems and there is an interview with Stephen Smale, the well known expert on dynamical systems, in theSeptember 2007 issue. There are a variety of mathematical centers and institutes that work closely with societies such as the AMS. They include in their missions, efforts to bridge mathematics and topics of interest to people in mechanics. Their websites are quite useful to monitor.They include: IMA: The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications: http://www.ima.umn.edu/ IPAM: The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics: http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/ MSRI: The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute: http://www.msri.org/ CNA: Center for Nonlinear Analysis: http://www.math.cmu.edu/cna/ FIELDS: The Fields Institute: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/
David Kinderlehrer Department of Mathematical Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 office 412 268 5729 secretary 412 268 2545 http://www.math.cmu.edu/people/fac/kinderlehrer.html
J.5 APS: Foss
American Physical Society The Fluid Dynamics Division of the American Physical Society (APS/DFD) is the primary division within APS that is concerned with mechanics. This division has 2735 members which is 5.9 percent of the total APS membership and the fourth largest of the APS divisions. The division is led by an Executive Committee whose Chair serves a one-year term that is preceded by the Chair-Elect and the past Chair positions. These officers, for the November-to-November term between our annual meetings are (for 2007-
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2008): Past Chair, Prof. Steven Pope, Cornell University; Chair, Prof. Alexander Smits, Princeton University; and Chair-Elect, Prof. Phillip Marcus, University of California-Berkeley. The annual meeting (Sunday-Tuesday before Thanksgiving) is immensely popular among fluid dynamicists with fundamental interests. Twenty concurrent sessions provided the forums for more than 1300 submitted abstracts and over 90 poster and video entries supplemented these 15-minute presentations at the 2007 meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Thirteen new fellows of APS were announced and eight invited presentations were delivered. The Fluid Dynamics Prize (and the associated Otto LaPorte lecture) was received (and presented) by Prof. Guenter Ahlers, University of California at Santa Barbara. The Acrivos PhD Dissertation Award went to David Saintillan, Courant Institute, and the Frenkiel Award (best paper in Physics of Fluids) was accepted by Re’em Sari, CalTech. The 2008 meeting will be held in San Antonia, TX. The APS/DFD website address is most easily found at Google: “aps/dfd.”
Professor John F. Foss Department of Mechanical Engineering A38 Engineering Research Center Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: (517) 355-3337 Fax: (517) 353-7179 [email protected]
J.6 ASA: Norris
Acoustical Society of America http://asa.aip.org/ The Acoustical Society of America is leading global professional society in acoustics, with over 7,500 members The Society covers a broad variety of acoustical fields including physics, electrical, mechanical, and aeronautical engineering, oceanography, biology, physiology, psychology, architecture, speech, noise and noise control, and music. Meetings and publications reflect this breadth, as the Society has so far resisted the tendency to fission into sub-topical groupings, meetings and publications, although pressures remain. The diversity in scientific discipline is one of the strengths of the Society. While there is a strong core of theoretical and applied science and mechanics, the Society embraces all aspects of acoustical phenomena.
The ASA is directed by an elected Executive Council, with current President Gilles Daigle (National Res. Council Canada) and Mark Hamilton (U. Texas, Austin) President Elect. Scientific focus is maintained by the Technical Council, comprising the chairs of the various Technical Committees. Most members are active in one or more of the TCs, which are responsible for arranging technical sessions at Society meetings, in areas ranging from Animal Bioacoustics to Underwater Acoustics. The Committees most relevant to USNC/TAM are Physical Acoustics, Structural Acoustics and Vibration, Underwater Acoustics, and Engineering Acoustics.
The financial status of the Society is deemed to be healthy, with net assets at the end of 2006 calendar year of $9M. The income for the year was $4.44M, of which $2.34M was from publishing, the remainder from members dues (typically $130 per member per annum), meetings, standards and other minor sources. The large role the publications play in generating income is not unusual for USNCTAM member organizations. At the same time, the membership dues help reduce the cost of the major publication, JASA, and keep page charges for authors within reason.
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) remains ASA’s primary publication. The Journal covers the full range of acoustics, with TAM related areas including linear and nonlinear acoustics, structural acoustics and vibration, physical acoustics, computational acoustics, and ultrasonics. JASA includes JASA Express Letters as a separate open access section. The other main organ of the Society is Acoustics Today, a topical magazine covering news and people, with a handful of in-depth articles at a level accessible to most members. In the past year the Society has introduced a new online open access journal: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics will publish papers based on presentations at Society meetings. The purpose is to offer authors and members a fast route to publication for material first presented at meetings. The level of editorial review will not be the same as the archival flagship journal,although acceptance of a paper at a meeting is a prerequisite. The Society holds two meetings annually. The 153rd meeting of the Society was held in June 2007 in Salt Lake City, the third time its has met in the city. The meeting drew a total of 924 registrants, with a total of 683 papers, organized into 84 sessions, covered the areas of interest of all 13 Technical Committees. As usual at all ASA meetings, every Technical Committee held a separate meeting. These are open, working, collegial affairs and all meeting attendees are encouraged to attend and to participate. Among other notable events at the meeting, The Women in Acoustics Luncheon was attended by over 100 people. TAM related sessions of interest included Ultrasound in condensed matter, neutrons, nanomaterials, magnetisms, Atmospheric acoustics, Nonlinear and linear seismology and time reversal in solids, Bubbles modes and scattering, Thermoacoustics. The 154th Society meeting was in November-December in New Orleans, having last held a meeting there in 1992. The meeting had 822 attendees, 600 papers and 71 sessions. Among the awards presented was the 2006 Science Writing Award in Acoustics. Three journalists received awards, including Don Monroe for his article “Why the Inner Ear is Snail Shaped" (Phys Rev Focus 2006). The next Society meeting will be a major international event in acoustics. Acoustics'08 Paris is the Second Joint Meeting of the ASA and the European Acoustics Association. It combines both major society meetings with the 9th Congress of the French Acoustical Society, the 7th European Conference on Noise Control, ECUA—the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics. The meeting will be held in late June, early July 2008 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. The ASA grants a variety of medals and awards for achievements in acoustics. In the past year, the 2007 Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal was presented to Edwin L. Carstensen, University of Rochester, “for contributions to the physics of biomedical ultrasound”. The Silver Medal in Engineering Acoustics was presented to Allan J. Zuckerwar, NASA, “for contributions to the theory and practical development of transducers and their use in fundamental measurements".
J.7 ASCE: Iwan
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS The American Society of Civil Engineers is home for a number of Institutes and Divisions involved in the application of mechanics to engineering problems. However, the primary focus for theoretical and applied mechanics activities is the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) that was created on October 1, 2007 from the former Engineering Mechanics Division (EMD). The membership of EMI has not yet been formally determined, but the membership of the EMD was estimated to be around 4,600. Oversight for EMI is provided by a Board of Governors which has fiduciary and legal responsibilities, and is responsible for strategic planning and policy guidance for the Institute.
The mission of EMI is to serve the engineering community through the development and application of engineering mechanics by anticipating and adapting to new challenges that will face tomorrow's engineers and scientists, and by creating an environment that facilitates professional growth to ensure that these future challenges will be met. The Institute seeks to establish a presence at the forefront of new thrusts of mechanics by promoting the most innovative developments in the field, regardless of the discipline of the ultimate user. EMI provides a home not only for those involved in the traditional disciplines, but also for those involved with emerging areas of mechanics. Additionally, the Institute seeks to promote the
April 9, 2008 7 Appendix J 2008 Society Reports USNC/TAM interdependence of engineering mechanics and other disciplines by providing an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practicing engineers, industry representatives, citizen groups, public officials and others. The vision of EMI is to be a premier organization representing engineering mechanics by effectively serving the needs of the world-wide engineering mechanics community and promoting both research and application of scientific and mathematical principles to address a broad spectrum of existing and emerging engineering and societal problems. EMI members are part of an international network of peers working in various areas of mechanics. They receive discounts for participation in EMI programs and symposia and may purchase EMI publications and subscribe to the Journal of Engineering Mechanics at member-only prices. Members are eligible to serve on EMI Committees and Task Groups which allows them to use their talents to address important issues related to engineering mechanics and helps them to build lasting professional relationships with others in the filed. Individuals who join EMI this year will become Charter Members of the Institute and annual membership dues for 2008 will cover both 2008 and 2009, a 50% cost saving. Institute members do not have to be members of ASCE. The Awards Committee of EMI oversees the selection process for recipients of ASCE awards administered by the Institute. Those awards that are presently administered by EMI and 2008 awardees include the Biot Medal (J. F. Allrad), Freudenthal Medal (Rudiger Rackwitz), Scanlan Medal (Nicholas Jones), and von Karman Medal (to be announced). EMI also plays a lead role in the selection of awardees for the Newmark Medal (George Voyiadjis) and Cermak Medal (not given this year). The current Director of EMI is Dr. Amar Chaker. The Director receives policy, program and budget direction from the Board of Governors and is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Institute. His office is in ASCE headquarters building in Reston VA. The Inaugural International Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EM08) will be held May 18-21, 2008 at the University of Minnesota. Held concurrently with EM08 will be a Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability Symposium and the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory 70th Anniversary Symposium. Special Institute membership rates will be available to those who register for this Conference.
Bill Iwan
J.8 ASME: Kyriakides
American Society of Mechanical Engineers The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (http://www.asme.org/index.html) has several Divisions with interests in theoretical and applied mechanics. Each Division is lead by an executive committee. Information on their activities can be found at the following websites: Applied Mechanics Division: http://www.asme.org/divisions/amd/ Aerospace Division: http://www.asme.org/divisions/aerospace/ Bioengineering Division, http://www.asme.org/divisions/bed/ Dynamic Systems and Control Division, http://www.asme.org/divisions/dscd/ Fluids Engineering Division: http://www.asme.org/divisions/fed/ Materials Division: http://www.asme.org/divisions/materials/ Noise, Control and Acoustics Division, http://www.asme.org/divisions/ncad/ Heat Transfer Division: http://www.asme.org/divisions/htd/
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Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, http://www.ooae.org/index.htm Pressure Vessel and Piping Division: http://www.asme.org/divisions/pvp/ Tribology Division: http://www.asme.org/divisions/tribology/ The Applied Mechanics Division acts as a focal point for mechanics activities. The AMD strives to foster the intelligent use of mechanics by engineers and to develop this science to serve the needs of the engineering community. Areas of activity cover all aspects of mechanics, irrespective of approach, including theoretical, experimental, and computational methodologies. During the period of July 2007-June 2008 the executive committee of the Applied Mechanics Division is made up of: K. Ravi-Chandar (Chair), Daniel J. Inman, Zhigang Suo, Tayfun E. Tezduyar and Ares Rosakis. The chair rotates out every July 1 and is replaced by a new member. Several mechanicians have received honors from ASME during the past year. At the International Congress in Seattel, Washington in November 2007, ASME Honors were awarded to the following: Daniel C. Drucker Medal - Albert Kobayashi; Applied Mechanics Award - Oscar Dillon; Special Achievement Award for Young Investigators in Applied Mechanics - Assad Oberai; Warner T. Koiter Medal - C.T. Sun; Timoshenko Medal - Thomas J.R. Hughes; Fluids Engineering Award - Alexander J. Smits; Nadai Medal Huseyin Sehitoglou; Thurston Lecture and Award Wing Kam Liu. The IUTAM Congress of 2008 will be held in Adeleide, Australia August 24-30. The annual meeting of ASME is the IMECE (International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition). The next IMECE wil take place at: Boston, Massachussets - October 31-November 6, 2008. Stelios Kyriakides April, 2008
J.9 ASTM: Chona
American Society for Testing and Materials
REPORT ON FATIGUE & FRACTURE AND MECHANICS-RELATED ACTIVITIES WITHIN ASTM INTERNATIONAL
REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE U.S. NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS
REPORT PREPARED BY: Ravi Chona (904-974-6787; [email protected])
REPORT DATE: 21 April 2008
BACKGROUND
The scope of Technical Committee E-08 on Fatigue and Fracture within ASTM International is available at: http://www.astm.org/cgi- bin/SoftCart.exe/COMMIT/SCOPES/E08.htm?L+mystore+bxca8139+1112037814
This committee was formed in 1993, following the merger of its two predecessor committees – Committee E-09 on Fatigue and Committee E-24 on Fracture Testing.
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The total membership of ASTM International stands at over 35,000. Committee E-08 currently has approximately 500 active members who participate in the development, review, and approval of standards related to the determination of fracture mechanics and fatigue parameters for materials. The list of standards under the jurisdiction of Committee E-08 is available at: http://www.astm.org/cgi- bin/SoftCart.exe/COMMIT/SUBCOMMIT/E08.htm?L+mystore+bxca8139+1112037814
Other Technical Committees within ASTM International whose activities may, from time-to-time, be relevant to the broader goals of the USNCTAM include Committees C-28 on Ceramics, D-30 on Composites, E-28 on Mechanical Testing, and G-01 on Corrosion. Committee E-08 maintains liaisons with all of these committees and information pertinent to the USNCTAM that arises from these sources will be transmitted as appropriate.
Additional information about any ASTM Committee is available by following the link to Technical Committees from the main website at: www.astm.org
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Journal of ASTM International (JAI) - ASTM International has launched a new journal, titled the Journal of ASTM International (JAI). The first issue of this new, online-only, peer-reviewed, technical outlet appeared in January 2004. Additional information is available at the ASTM and JAI websites: http://www.astm.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/JOURNALS/JAI/jai_home.html
ASTM Special Technical Publications (STP’s) – With the launch of JAI, ASTM International initially opted to discontinue publication of the monograph-style Special Technical Publications (STP’s) that traditionally served as the peer-reviewed publication outlet for the papers presented at ASTM-sponsored technical symposia. Instead, presenters at such events were initially asked to submit their papers for peer- review and possible publication in JAI.
A recent decision has, however, allowed a happy medium to be arrived at in the society’s publication policies for technical contributions that are first made at ASTM-sponsored symposia. Presenters are still expected to submit their written papers for peer-review and publication in JAI. At a certain point in time, established by the symposium co-chairs, all papers that have been accepted for publication in JAI are then collected and reissued in a single bound volume as the ASTM STP pertaining to that symposium. This has proved to be a very satisfactory resolution to the simultaneous desires of the authors to get their material published in a timely fashion in a peer-reviewed outlet and the desires of symposium attendees to have a single document to go to for additional information on the material they heard presented.
Activities Focused on Residual Stresses – The impact of residual stresses on engineering assessments has long been an issue, particularly when it comes to structural integrity assessments. This has become even more important in some industries like aerospace, where monolithic metallic structures (as opposed to the current built-up versions), new joining technologies, and the ability to induce desired levels of favorable residual stresses have all become available. Committee E08 on Fatigue and Fracture recently launched a two-pronged new technical activity in this regard. One thrust is to modify existing test methods to ensure that the basic material property measurements (fracture toughness, crack growth rate, etc.) are not influenced by the presence of residual stresses that may have been present in the component or product from which the test specimens were obtained. The other, parallel, thrust is to develop guidelines on how to properly take residual stresses into account when making life prediction and structural integrity assessments of fracture- and/or fatigue-critical components.
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AWARDS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
The following awards and other forms of professional recognition have recently been bestowed upon members of the technical community by ASTM International:
ASTM INTERNATIONAL AWARD OF MERIT & FELLOW 2007 – Gary Bray, Alcoa Technical Center 2007 – Michael McGaw, McGaw Technologies 2008 – Peter C. McKeighan, Failure Analysis Associates
FATIGUE LECTURE 2007 – Henry Petroski, Duke University
GEORGE R. IRWIN MEDAL 2007 – Anthony R. Ingraffea, Cornell University
SWEDLOW LECTURE 2007 – James A. Joyce, US Naval Academy
EDWARD T. WESSEL AWARD 2007 – Gerald J. Petrak, US Air Force Research Laboratory
FUTURE MEETINGS OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE AND FUTURE SYMPOSIA SPONSORED BY THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
The Technical Committee, its Subcommittees and its Task Groups meet bi-annually for standards development and organizational purposes. Symposia and workshops on specific topics are held periodically, often in conjunction with and immediately following the standards development meetings.
ASTM Committee E-08 is also the primary sponsor of the landmark National Symposium on Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, which was inaugurated at Lehigh University by George Irwin, Paul Paris, and Jerry Swedlow. Beginning in 2001, this symposium became the Joint ASTM/ESIS International Symposium on Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics. It will henceforth be held in odd-numbered years in the United States and in even-numbered years in Europe. When hosted by ESIS (European Society for Integrity of Structures) in Europe, the Joint International Symposium is coupled with the European Conference on Fracture (ECF).
The next scheduled standards development meetings of the committee are as follows:
2008 May 4-8 Hyatt Regency, Denver, CO 2008 Nov 16-20 Miami Beach, FL
A complete list of forthcoming committee meetings and upcoming symposia is available at the ASTM website: www.astm.org
J.10 SEM: Shukla
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Society for Experimental Mechanics For the period March 31, 2007 to April 1, 2008.
The Society for Experimental Mechanics is composed of international members from academia, government, and industry who are committed to interdisciplinary application, research and development, education, and active promotion of experimental methods to: (a) increase the knowledge of physical phenomena; (b) further the understanding of the behavior of materials, structures and systems; and (c) provide the necessary physical basis and verification for analytical and computational approaches to the development of engineering solutions. The society currently has 1600 members.
Conferences:
IMAC
IMAC-XXVI Conference & Exposition on Structural Dynamics was held at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort and Golf Club in Orlando, FL from Feb. 1 - 7, 2008. Over 550 people attended. The theme of the conference was: “Technologies for Civil Structures”. There were 48 technical sessions with over 235 papers.
Technical courses were offered in: 1. Modal Analysis – Theory and Application 2. Operational Modal Analysis, Background, Practice, and Workshop 3. Using Matlab™ for Noise & Vibration Analysis 4. Verification and Validation of Computational Models
IMAC-XXVI Keynote Presentations were: Professor Guido De Roeck, “Vibration Monitoring: Beyond the State of Promises?” Peter A. Irwin, “Wind Vibration Control Of Tall Buildings”
Dr. W.F. Marcuson III gave the luncheon presentation titled: “Issues in the American Engineering Program that are Keeping Me Up at Night.”
2007 SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics
The 2007 SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics was held June 3-6, 2006 at the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel, Springfield, MA. There were 86 technical sessions with over 337 papers.
Theme for 2007: Experimental Mechanics Applied to Advanced Materials and Systems
Symposia
8th International Symposium on MEMS and Nano-Technology Tracks Mechanical and Microstructural Analyses of Biological and Bio-inspired Systems and Materials Digital Image Correlation: Developments, Applications and Measurements from Macroscale to Nanoscale Inverse Problems in Experimental Mechanics Experimental and Applied Mechanics
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Courses Analyzing Full-field Deformation Data for Extracting Material Properties: The Virtual Fields MethodDigital Image Correlation: Principles, Developments, and Hands-on Experiments for 2D and 3D Computer Vision Systems Direct Optical Non-contact Strain & Accumulated Damage Measurement Packaging of MEMS Devices and Their Assembly Into Systems
2007 Awards
Honorary Member - Isaac M. Daniel, Northwestern University SEM Fellow - Eann A. Patterson, Michigan State University Shing-Chung “Max” Yen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale William M. Murray Medal – Dr. David L. Brown, Retired, University of Cincinnati D. J. DeMichele – Alvaro Cunha, Universidade do Porto M. M. Frocht – Michael A. Sutton, University of South Carolina B. J. Lazan – Sia Nemat-Nasser, University of California, San Diego F. G. Tatnall – Jonathan D. Rogers, Sandia National Laboratories Zandman – Baruch (Bob) Ziv, Vishay Measurements Group P. S. Theocaris (New award) - Isaac M. Daniel, Northwestern University M. Hetenyi – W.N. Everett, P. Shih, and J.D. Humphrey, “A Bi-plane Video-based System for Studying the Mechanics of Arterial Bifurcations”, Experimental Mechanics, 2005, 45: 377-382 D. Harting – K. Xia, A.J. Rosakis, and H. Kanamori, “Supershear and Sub-Rayleigh to Supershear Transition Observed in Laboratory Earthquake Experiments”, Experimental Techniques, Vol.29, No. 3, pp. 63-66, 2005
J.11 SES: Jasiuk
Society of Engineering Science The Society of Engineering Science (http://www.sesinc.org/) is an organization of engineers, scientists and applied mathematicians from around the world. Its mission is to promote the development and strengthening of the interfaces between various disciplines in engineering, sciences, and applied mathematics. The Society organizes its annual conferences which attract on the average 400 participants. All conference participants automatically become members of the Society for that year. Membership can be also maintained by paying annual dues. Student membership is also available and a Student Paper Competition is scheduled at every SES conference. A majority of the SES members are engineering scientists from academia who are directly involved in mechanics. More precise statistics are not available. The 2007 officers of the Society were George Voyiadjis (President), John Bassani (Vice-President), Judith Todd (Secretary) and Yi-Chao Chen (Treasurer). The 2008 officers are John Bassani (President), Judith Todd (Vice-President), Brian Moran (Secretary) and Yi-Chao Chen (Treasurer). In addition, there is a Board of Directors, with members being rotated every three years. Nominations for SES Board members are solicited annually in the fall. A list of current and past officers and board members is given on the Society’s website. The Society also grants medals which are presented annually at its conferences. These are the A.C. Eringen Medal in recognition of sustained outstanding achievements in Engineering Science, the Engineering Science Medal in recognition of a singularly important contribution to Engineering Science, the William Prager Medal for outstanding research contributions in either Theoretical or Experimental Solid Mechanics or both, the G.I. Taylor Medal for outstanding research contributions in either Theoretical or Experimental Fluid Mechanics or both, and the SES Young Investigator Medal to a young researcher
April 9, 2008 13 Appendix J 2008 Society Reports USNC/TAM whose work has already had an impact in his/her field within Engineering Science. In addition, the SES elevates a small number of members to be SES Fellows every year. A deadline for nominations of SES medalists and fellows is July 15 every year. This year, the July 15, 2008 deadline is for the 2009 SES medalists. More information about these medals and nomination forms are available on the SES website (http://www.sesinc.org/). The last SES conference was held at Texas A&M University on October 21-24, 2007 and it covered a broad spectrum of topics in solid and fluid mechanics and engineering and biological materials. The 2007 medalists were Graeme Milton (Prager Medal), Bernard D. Coleman (Engineering Science Medal) and Horacio Espinosa (Young Investigator Medal). Catherine Brinson, David McDowell and Nancy Sottos became the SES Fellows. The next SES conference will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (http://ses2008.mechse.uiuc.edu/) on October 12-15, 2008. The meeting is being organized by Harley Johnson ([email protected]) and Iwona Jasiuk ([email protected]). The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 30, 2008. At this conference 33 symposia are being organized (http://ses2008.mechse.uiuc.edu/content/call_for_abstracts/) in solid and fluid mechanics, materials science, biosciences, physics and applied mathematics.
Submitted by Iwona Jasiuk on April 1, 2008
J.12 SIAM: Healey
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics May 2007 – March 2008 (submitted by T. J. Healey) SIAM (www.siam.org) currently has over 10,000 members, a majority of which are involved in the development of analytical and computational methods in scientific problems. As such, the ties to mechanics-driven fields have always been and continue to be very strong. All 12 of the SIAM research journals feature articles of interest to the mechanics community – some more often than others. In particular, each of the following 5 journals has a mechanics presence on their respective editorial board:
• SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems • SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics • SIAM Journal of Control and Opitimization • SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis • SIAM Journal of Multiscale Modeling and Simulation • SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
During this reporting period, the following articles on various aspects of mechanics appeared in SIAM News (the monthly news letter for the Society):
“Falling Paper and Flying Business Cards”, May 2007. “Bending a Soccer Ball with CFD”, August 2007. “An Increasing Role for Mechanics in Cancer Modeling”, October, 2007.
SIAM meetings held during the reporting period related to mechanics include:
• SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, May– June 2007.
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• SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, June – July 2007. • SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry, October 2007. • SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, December 2007. • SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, May 2008.
The following SIAM prizes were awarded during this reporting period:
• Ralph E. Kleinman Prize – Salvatore Torquato, May 2007. • Jürgen Moser Lecture – Harry Swinney, May 2007. • J. D. Crawford Prize – Andrew Stuart, May 2007. • W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize – Hector Sussman, July 2007. • SIAG/CST Prize – Murat Arcak, July 2007. • John von Neumann Lecture – Nancy Kopell, July 2007 • Peter Henrici Prize – Gilbert Strang, July 16 2007. • Germund Dahlquist Prize – Robert Mclachlan, July 2007. • SIAG/APDE Prize – Stefano Bianchini and Alberto Bressan, December 2007.
J.13 SNAME: Karr
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), founded in 1893, has about 10,000 members. It is devoted to “advancing the art, science and practice of naval architecture, shipbuilding and marine engineering, encouraging the exchange and recording of information, sponsoring applied research, offering career guidance and supporting education, and enhancing the professional status and integrity of its membership”. SNAME is international in character with about one quarter of its members located outside the United States. The Society's scope includes all aspects of research, production, maintenance and operation of ships, submersibles, yachts, boats, offshore and ocean bottom structures, hydrofoils and surface effect ships.
The official journals published by SNAME are:
• Journal of Ship Research (fluid and structural mechanics) http://www.sname.org/jsr_description.htm • Marine Technology (design of marine systems) http://www.sname.org/mtonline_description.htm • Journal of Ship Production (manufacturing processes) http://www.sname.org/jsp_description.htm The Society has 17 Sections, grouped into five Regions, an International region having been established in 2004. Each Region is represented on the Council and Executive Committee by elected Vice Presidents of the Society. Student Sections of the society are sponsored by a Local Section. A designated Executive Committee member acts in the capacity of advisor to and liaison between the local and student sections. SNAME has an Education Committee (one of several standing committees) which meets twice a year and deals with problems in education from reaching out to high school students to Professional Engineering licensing. Its major activities relate to university education and all major universities with programs in this engineering discipline are represented in the Education Committee.
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By means of the Technical and Research (T&R) Program, the Society encourages and sponsors maritime research into areas of the ocean sciences, with particular emphasis on marine vehicles and offshore structures. The work encompasses structures, hydrodynamics, machinery, production, operation and systems development. Technical Committees and special T&R Ad Hoc Panels are formed to get expert input on issues of current interest and importance. They provide timely technical information to promote marine safety, to educate the marine community and the public at large and to support regulatory processes.
Award recipients for the past year were:
Hans G. Payer and Raul Brostella, American Bureau of Shipping - Captain Joseph H. Linnard Prize for the best paper contributed to the Annual Meeting and appearing in the Transactions of the Society.
Howard Shatto, Blakely Smith Medal for outstanding accomplishment in Ocean Engineering.
Hans G. Payer, David W. Taylor Medallist for notable achievement in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
Bruce S. Rosenblatt, Vice Admiral Jerry Land Medal for outstanding accomplishment in the marine field.
Roger H. Compton, Webb Medal for outstanding contributions to education in Naval Architecture, Marine or Ocean Engineering.
SNAME organizes and sponsors a major international conference annually. The Annual Meeting takes place in the fall. The Transactions of the annual meeting include major publications of work that has significant impact on design of marine systems. All papers are peer reviewed thoroughly before distribution. Distribution prior to the annual meeting provides time for preparation of comments and author response at the annual meeting. The 2007 Annual Meeting was held November 14-16 in Fort Lauderdale, FL (http://www.sname.org/AM2007/conference.shtml). The Society also sponsored the Ship Production Symposium (. This symposium is a well-known annual event where results of research supported by sources including the National Shipbuilding Research Program Advanced Shipbuilding Enterprise (NSRP ASE) are presented. This symposium is dedicated to the support and progress of U.S. shipyards, both commercial and naval, in keeping with NSRP’s mission to assist the U.S. shipbuilding and repair industry in reducing the cost of Navy ships while achieving and maintaining global competitiveness with respect to quality, time, cost and customer satisfaction. Selected papers from the proceedings are published in the Journal of Ship Production.
Future SNAME sponsored and affiliated events:
2008 SNAME Maritime Technology Conference & Expo 10/15/08-10/17/08 Houston, TX http://www.sname2008.com/2008/home/
27th Int. Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering 06/15/08 - 06/20/08 Estoril, Portugal http://www.asmeconferences.org/omae08/
ICETECH 08, International Conference & Exhibition on Performance of Ships and Structures in Ice 7/20/08-7/23/08 Banff, Alberta Canada http://www.icetech08.org/index.html
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Offshore Technology Conference 2008 05/05/08 - 05/08/08 Houston, TX http://www.otcnet.org/2008/index.html
SNAME Contact:
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 601 Pavonia Avenue Jersey City, NJ 07306 Telephone: 800-798-2188 or 201-798-4800 Fax: 201-798-4975 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.sname.org/
Submitted by Dale G. Karr, April 4, 2008
J.14 SOR: Graham
SOCIETY OF RHEOLOGY The membership of the Society of Rheology (SOR) is comprised of engineers, scientists and mathematicians interested in deformation and flow of materials with complex microstructure. There are approximately 1400 nonstudent and 200 student members of the society. A principal activity of the Society is the bimonthly publication of the Journal of Rheology. The editor is John Brady of Caltech. The 79th Annual Meeting of the SOR was in Salt Lake City in Oct. 2007 – Mike Graham, the USNC/TAM representative of SOR, was the technical program chair. As an indication of the interests of the SOR membership, here are listed the titles of the technical sessions for this conference: • Suspensions, colloids and granular media • Blends, emulsions and multiphase fluids • Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics • Microrheology, microfluidics and confined systems • Biological and self-assembled systems • Solids and glasses • Polymer solutions • Entangled solutions and melts • Rheology in energy production
The 2006 Bingham Medal of the society was awarded to John Brady of Caltech, and the 2008 award will go to Hans-Christian Öttinger of ETH-Zurich.
J.15 USACM: Fish
U. S. Association for Computational Mechanics From their inception in 1991, the biennial national congresses of the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics have become major scientific events, drawing computational scientists worldwide from government, academia and industry. The ninth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM IX), hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, featured the latest developments in all aspects of computational mechanics, and broadened the definition of the discipline to include many other computation oriented areas in engineering and sciences. From applications in nanotechnology and bioengineering, to recent advances in numerical methods and high-performance computing, the technical
April 9, 2008 17 Appendix J 2008 Society Reports USNC/TAM program reflected the Congress theme - ''Interdisciplinary Computation''. In addition to plenary lectures and minisymposia that highlighted the latest trends in computational mechanics, pre- and post-conference short courses addressing advances in multiscale and multiphysics methods, as well as other topics were held.
The ninth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics had 121 minisymposia, with a total of 1313 registrants. The attendee breakdown was 985 regular attendees and 323 students. There was a significant international presence. The top six countries were: United States 60.93%; Japan 5.18%; Germany 4.95%; France 4.72%; Italy 2.97% and Korea 3.43%.
Professors Papadopoulos and Zohdi from Department of Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley co-chaired the congress.
Wing Kam Liu received the John von Neuman Medal for his contributions to nonlinear finite element methods, meshfree particle methods and multiresolution bridging scale methods, and their applications to materials design, nano mechanics and materials. Michael Ortiz received the Computational Structural Mechanics Award for his contributions to nonlinear solid mechanics and materials science, particularly linking continuum mechanics with atomistic and subscale behavior. George Em Karniadakis received the Computational Fluid Dynamics Award for his pioneering work in computational fluid dynamics, particularly spectral hp finite elements, discontinuous Galerkin methods and microfluidics. Computational and Applied Sciences Award went to Stanley Osher for his pioneering work in high resolution schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations, and level set methods for moving fronts. Narayan Aluru was awarded the Gallagher Young Investigator Award for his contributions to computational methods of MEMS, Bio-MEMS, nanoelectromechanical systems and microfluidics. The USACM Fellows were awarded to Ken Chong, Jiann-Wen Woody Ju, Roger Ghanem, Leopoldo Franca and Somnath Ghosh. Jacob Fish
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