B.J. LAZAN AWARD

The award honors inventors, developers or contributors to the introduction of new devices or methods.
Nominations are solicited from the general membership by the Honors Committee.

Past Recipients are:

  In recognition of his outstanding and pioneering contributions to the field of experimental and fracture mechanics.
Dr. Emmanuel E. Gdoutos is Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Applied Mechanics of the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University. He received M.S. and Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. His interests and experience include experimental mechanics, fracture mechanics, composite materials, sandwich structures and nanotechnology. He is member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), the European Academy of Sciences (EAS), Academia Europaea (AE), Russian Academy of Engineering (RAE), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens, Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), and honorary member of the Italian Group of Fracture (IGF).

He is author of over 250 technical papers, 17 books and editor of 15 books. He is Editor-in-chief of “Strain - An International Journal for Experimental Mechanics,” serves on the editorial board of eight international journals and edited many special issues of journals. He is President of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) (2006-2010), the Greek Group of Fracture (2002-2010) and served as chairman of the European Association for Experimental Mechanics (EURASEM) (2003-2007) and member of the Executive Board of SEM (2006-2008). He chaired the “16th European Conference of Fracture (ECF16),” the “13th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM13),” and many other conferences and symposia on applied mechanics.