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The Applied Mechanics Division, of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, seeks nominations for the awards listed below. All the awards are international.  Neither the nominee nor the nominator need be a member of the ASME.  Further descriptions of the awards are given at http://divisions.asme.org/amd/Honors_Awards.cfm.

The ASME Multifunctional Materials Technical Committee of the Materials Division is organizing a symposium on Multifunctional Material Systems at IMECE2009 to be held in Lake Buena Vista, FL, during Nov. 13-19, 2009.

Abstract submission deadline: March 2, 2009

To submit your abstracts to this symposium, select Track 15 – Processing and Engineering Applications of Novel Materials and Topic 15-4 . At the end of the abstract, you can also indicate which subtopic (see below) you would like to contribute to.

At the 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2009)

November 13-19,  2009, Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Track 12: Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids

Symposium on Mechanics of Integrated Material Structures in Advanced and Emerging Technologies

Deadline for abstract submission: March 2, 2009.

You are cordially invited to attend a reception in honor of Professor John W. Hutchinson during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition.  Download a printable version of this invitation.

Monday, 3 November 2008, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Room: Fairfax A/B, Sheraton Boston Hotel & Towers, 39 Dalton Street, Boston, MA, Phone:  617-236-6039

Dear All my friends,

I have to design silencer at chimaney outlet. The silencer can be easily designed for mechanical strength as per ASME section VIII standard. But now I have to design the silencer from acoustic point of view as I have to consider the db level of the sound generated due to very high velocity flue gases.

 please tell me which ASME standard can I follow to meet the requirement from acoustic point of views.

thanks in advance,

 Regards,

Abhijit Nalawade.

Hi, everyone,

I am wondering whether anybody could explain how to determine primary stress and secondary stress when FE software is used when the pressure vessel is designed using ASME section VIII vision 2.

The code has some explanation using plasticity (self-limiting). But it is very hard to use for practical use.

Thanks

Professor Choon Fong Shih, President, National University of Singapore; Founding President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

For lasting contributions to mechanics, and for building bridges between disciplines and between nations

Professor Shih Choon Fong received his PhD from Harvard University in 1973, after which he joined GE’s Corporate Research Lab, where he later led its Fracture Research Group. In 1981, Shih took up a faculty position at Brown University, becoming a full professor five years later. After 30 years in the US, Shih returned to Singapore, his birthplace, as the founding Director of the national-level Institute of Materials Research and Engineering. In 2000, Shih took office as Vice-Chancellor and President of the National University of Singapore (NUS). In December 2008, Shih will become founding President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.

Sia Nemat-Nasser, Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials, The University of California, San Diego

For fundamental theoretical and experimental contributions in: dynamic stability; deformation and failure modes of materials; nano-electro-chemo-mechanical characterization and modeling of ionic polymer metal composites; and composites with integrated tuned electromagnetic functionality, self-healing, and self-sensing.

Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser earned his B.S. in Engineering from Sacramento State University, followed by M.S in Civil Engineering and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, both from the University of California, Berkeley, while serving as an assistant professor in Civil Engineering at Sacramento State University. Sia then undertook a post-doctoral assignment at Northwestern University, leading to his first appointment as Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego, followed by fifteen years at Northwestern University as Professor of Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics. He went back in 1985 to the University of California, San Diego, where he is Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials.

Richard D. James, Russell J. Penrose Professor, University of Minnesota

For pioneering the modern vision of phase transformations and materials instabilities in solids.

Professor Richard D. James received a Sc.B. in Engineering from Brown University in 1974, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 1979. He was appointed as Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota in 1979, and Assistant Professor at Brown University in 1981. In 1985, he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota, where he is now the Russell J. Penrose Professor.

Ali Hasan Nayfeh, University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

For seminal analytical and experimental contributions to nonlinear dynamics and structural mechanics

Professor Ali Hasan Nayfeh was born in Shuwaikah, Jordan, on 21 December 1933. After enrolling in 1959, he received B.S. in Engineering Science in 1962, M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1963, and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1964, all from Stanford University and all in a period of five years. After graduation, he worked at Heliodyne Corporation and Aerotherm Corporation. He then joined the faculty of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in 1971, and has been a University Distinguished Professor of Engineering since 1976.

Thomas C.T. Ting, Professor Emeritus, the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Consulting Professor, Stanford University

For significant contributions to the development of the Stroh formalism of anisotropic elasticity, and to the analyses of several fundamental inelastic and wave propagation problems

Professor Thomas C.T. Ting received B.S. in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1956, and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1962. He was appointed as Assistant Professor at Brown University between 1963 and 1965. He then joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was promoted through the academic ranks to Professor in 1970. He has been Professor Emeritus since 2001. He has received visiting appointments at a number of universities, including National Taiwan University, The University of East Anglia, University of Science and Technology of China in Anhui, Tongji University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Sanford University.

Professor Chad M. Landis, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin

For outstanding contributions to the mechanics of active materials

Professor Chad Landis received his bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and business from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. He then went on to earn his MS (1997) and PhD (1999) degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara. After spending a year and a half at Harvard University as a post-doc, he then went to Rice University where he was a member of the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science faculty from 2000-2006. He is now an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin.

The deadline for early-bird registration, with a $50 saving, is 28 August 2008.  Please consider to register for the Applied Mechanics Division Honors & Awards Banquet to meet your friends, and to congratulate the winners. 

Spring 2008:   The Materials Division of ASME is pleased to announce the creation of The Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Medal in honor of Dr. Sia Nemat- Nasser, Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials at UC San Diego and Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials. This award is given to recognize research excellence in the areas of experimental, computational, and theoretical mechanics and materials by young investigators who are within 10 years after their Ph.D. degree, with special emphasis placed on under-represented minorities and women.  

The ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress (IMECE 2008) will be held on October 31 - November 6, 2008, in Boston, Massachusetts. http://www.asmeconferences.org/Congress08/. A wide range of mechanics-related symposia (topics) are being organized in Track 12 Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids. The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) believes that this track will provide a good platform for mechanics-related presentations. We encourage mechanics researchers to consider the symposia of this track for their research presentations. The deadline for abstract submission is March 3, 2008.

Tayfun E. Tezduyar, Track Chair

A symposium on "Defects in materials: Theory and Applications" is being organized at the 2008 ASME conference in Boston (Oct 31-Nov6). To submitt abstracts to this symposium choose Track 12-4 (Track 12, topic 4). The abstract submission deadline is March 3, 2008. Below is the description and scope of the symposium:

As part of the 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), this symposium is being organized by Technical Committee of Integrated Structures (TCIS) of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD).

When and Where: October 31 - November 6, 2008, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract submission deadline: March 3, 2008 

At the 2007 ASME Congress, in Seattle, Professor Wing Kam Liu won the 2007 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award.  Wing Kam was a past chair of the Applied Mechanics Division, and has made seminal contributions in the field of computational mechanics.