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This award was established in
1967 to recognize individuals who have made outstanding original technical
contributions to experimental mechanics. In 1973 this award was named in
honor of Dr. Benjamin J. Lazan, a pioneer in his field who achieved
recognition in dynamic testing, vibration, materials damping and fatigue. |
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:
| 2008 |
H.D. Espinosa |
| 2007 |
S. Nemat-Nasser |
| 2006 |
Y.J. Chao |
| 2005 |
G. Ravichandran |
| 2004 |
Y. Morimoto |
| 2003 |
K.M. Liechti |
| 2002 |
A. Shukla |
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2001 |
W.N. Sharpe, Jr. |
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2000 |
W.G. Knauss |
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1999 |
D.F. Adams |
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1998 |
M.Y.Y. Hung |
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1997 |
J. McKelvie |
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1996 |
A.J. Rosakis |
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1995 |
C.W. Smith |
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1993 |
F-P. Chiang |
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1992 |
W.H. Peters III |
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M.A. Sutton |
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W.F. Ranson |
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1991 |
C.A. Sciammarella |
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1990 |
M.M. Lemcoe |
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1989 |
H.F. Brinson |
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1988 |
S.P. Wnuk |
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1987 |
D.L. Brown |
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1986 |
A.J. Durelli |
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1985 |
A. Lagarde |
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1984 |
I.M. Daniel |
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1983 |
K.A. Stetson |
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1982 |
S.J. Green |
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1981 |
A.S. Kobayashi |
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1980 |
J.E. Starr |
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1979 |
M. Leven |
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1978 |
W.T. Bean |
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1977 |
G.R. Irwin |
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1976 |
J.C. Telinde |
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1975 |
M.E. Fourney |
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1974 |
J.F. Bell |
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1973 |
S.S. Manson |
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1972 |
D. Post |
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1971 |
D.R. Harting |
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1970 |
F. Zandman |
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1969 |
A.C. Ruge |
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1968 |
G. Ellis |
2008 B.J. Lazan Award:
Horacio D. Espinosa
Horacio D. Espinosa is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. He received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the Northeast National University, Argentina, his M.Sc. in Structural Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and his Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from Brown University, in 1992. He subsequently joined the Purdue University faculty and later moved to Northwestern University in 2000. He has made contributions in the areas of dynamic failure of advanced materials, micro and nanomechanics. He has published over 150 technical papers in these fields. Professor Espinosa has received numerous awards and honors recognizing his research and teaching efforts, including two Young Investigator Awards, NSF-Career and ONR-YIP, the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) 2002-Junior Award, the Society for Experimental Mechanics 2005 Hetenyi Award (Best Paper of the Year Award), and the Society of Engineering Science (SES) 2007 Junior Medal. He is also a Fellow of the AAM and ASME. He was the editor of Mechanics, a publication of AAM, and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Mechanics, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Mechanics. His research interests are on size scale plasticity and fracture of nanostructures, MEMS and NEMS, in-situ electron and atomic probe microscopy testing of nanostructures, and the development of microdevices for massively parallel atomic probe microscopy writing with chemicals and bio-molecules.
