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Three to be honored with UD composites medal 3:27 p.m., Aug. 19, 2005--The University of Delaware Medal of Excellence in Composite Materials will be presented to three outstanding leaders in the field at the American Society for Composites (ASC) 20th annual technical conference, Thursday, Sept. 8, hosted by Drexel University in Philadelphia. The conference will focus on biocomposites, nanocomposites and their applications, and there will be plenary lectures on the future of aircraft composites, automobile composites and composite education. Created in 1984 in conjunction with the 10th anniversary celebration of UD’s Center for Composite Materials (CCM), the medal recognizes those who have maintained and demonstrated scholarly endeavor, invention and/or economic enterprise for a sustained period of time. Honored will be John C. Halpin, Nicholas J. Pagano and James M. Whitney. John C. Halpin worked for the Air Force Materiel Command at Wright Patterson Air Force Base for more than 30 years before retiring in 1996. As chief engineer for the Aeronautical System Center, Halpin had responsibility for all U.S. Air Force aircraft development activities. He also was a technical adviser to the Federal Aviation Administration in formulating certification concepts for composite airframes. In recent years, Halpin has served as adviser to several U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense program offices and as a consultant to the aeronautical industry. The author of two books, including his pioneering 1969 book, Primer on Composite Materials, Halpin has published more than 80 papers on composite materials, airframe structures, structural reliability and materials processing. He was editor of the 1969-70 book series Progress in Materials Science and cofounder of the Journal of Composite Materials. Nicholas J. Pagano, formerly senior scientist with the Air Force Research Laboratory, has made pioneering and seminal contributions to the field of composite materials for more than 30 years. He was first to recognize the importance of interlaminar phenomena in high-performance composite materials, and his discovery of the “stacking sequence phenomenon” led to new practices to reduce the potential for delamination. He formulated models to describe this phenomenon with both closed-form and numerical approaches. In addition, Pagano developed analytical models for bending of laminated plates that have served as the reference for all following work in the mechanics of laminated plaster. Another major contribution has been in the treatment of brittle-matrix composite materials with complex microstructure, such as carbon-carbon and ceramic-matrix composites. James M. Whitney became the John F. and Leona D. Torley Chair in Composite Materials at the University of Dayton after serving as research scholar at the Air Force Materials Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for 30 years. An internationally recognized authority on the mechanics of fiber-reinforced composites, he has made seminal contributions to the development of laminated plate and shell theory, micromechanics experimental methods and interlaminar analysis. He has written extensively in his field with more than 125 publications, including two textbooks, and has contributed to the Delaware Composites Design Encyclopedia. He has participated in numerous short courses with CCM. Cofounder and first president of ASC, Whitney is a fellow of ASC, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society for Testing and Materials, which honored him with its Award of Merit for his work in the standardization of test methods for advanced composite materials. Planning to attend the Sept. 8 conference are more than 200 scientists and engineers from 11 nations, including Goichi Ben, president of the Japan Society for Composite Materials, Makoto Kato of Toyota and Suong Hoa, president of the Canadian Association for Composite Structures. Jack Vinson, H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and founding director of CCM; Tsei-Wei Chou, P. S. du Pont Chair of Engineering; Suresh Advani, professor of mechanical engineering; and Richard Wool, professor of chemical engineering and former director of CCM, will serve as session chairpersons. The medals, which were designed by internationally known sculptor Charles Parks and bear the images of the four initial medal winners--Zvi Hashin, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Anthony Kelly and Stephen. W. Tsai, will be presented by Chou, current CCM director Jack Gillespie and Byron Pipes, former director of CCM, dean of the College of Engineering and UD provost and 1994 medal winner. For more information about the conference go to [www.materials.Drexel.edu/fml/asc]. Article by Sue Moncure To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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