M. HETÉNYI Award

This award was established in 1967 for the best research paper published in Experimental Mechanics. It was named in honor of Dr. Miklos Hetényi. A brief biography and an abridged list of Dr. Hetényi's professional accomplishments follow:

Education: University of Technical Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 1924-30; Diploma in Civil Engineering, 1931; Graduate work with H.M. Westerguard, Univ. of Illinois, 1934-35 and with S.P. Timoshenko, Univ. of Michigan, 1935-36; PhD in Eng. Mechanics, 1936.

Publications: Author of over 70 scientific papers on analytical and experimental mechanics and on the theory of structures; Beams on Elastic Foundations, Univ. of Michigan, 1946; Coeditor of Proc. of the Tenth International Congress on Applied Mechanics, Springer Ed., 1969.

Contributions to SEM: 1 of 4 founders, 1943; Vice President, 1943-44; 2nd President, 1944-45; Editor, Handbook of Experimental Stress Analysis, 1950.

General Contributions: Development and Application of Three-Dimensional Photoelasticity; Development of a "Reduction Method" for the Analysis of Continuous Frames; Development of a "Method of Initial Parameters" for the Analysis of beams, beam-grillages, and beams in elastic foundations; Solution for Axi-Symmetrical Deformation of Spherical Shells and Related Structures.

Award Guidelines

Recipients:

2012 M. Hetényi Award:  Kyubum Kim and Samantha H. Daly

For their outstanding paper titled “Martensite Strain Memory in the Shape Memory Alloy Nickel-Titanium Under Mechanical Loading” published in Experimental Mechanics in 2011.

Kyubum Kim is currently a doctoral student in the Daly research group at the University of Michigan, with an expected graduation date of June 2013. Kyubum received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea in 2007, and his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2010. He is a recipient of the Excellence Scholarship from Hanyang University and the Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Award Sapphire Ranking from the 2011 MS&T Conference. His current research activities, funded by the Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences, focus on the deformation and failure mechanisms of shape memory alloys. 

Samantha Daly is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology in 2007 and 2002 respectively, and joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in January of 2008. She is a recipient of the Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program Award, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, the ASME Orr Award for early career research excellence in fatigue, creep, and fracture, the Everhart Award and Charles D. Babcock Award from the California Institute of Technology. Her research interests include the mechanical behavior of materials, fatigue, fracture, creep, composites, smart materials, and advanced experimental techniques.