The Warner T. Koiter Medal was established in 1996 by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....

. It is awarded in recognition of distinguished work in the field of solid mechanics

Solid mechanics

Solid mechanics is the branch of mechanics, physics, and mathematics that concerns the behavior of solid matter under external actions . It is part of a broader study known as continuum mechanics. One of the most common practical applications of solid mechanics is the Euler-Bernoulli beam equation...

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The award was funded by the Technical University of Delft in the honor of Warner T. Koiter

Warner T. Koiter

Warner Tjardus Koiter was an influential mechanical engineer and the Professor of Applied Mechanics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands from 1949 to 1979.-Life and education:...

, who was a professor at the university from 1949 till 1979. Koiter's most influential work dealt with the non-linear stability of structures.

The recipient is given an honorarium and a bronze plaque.

Nomination procedure

The Koiter Medal Committee consists of the five recent Koiter Medalists, the five members of the executive committee of the ASME

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....

 International Applied Mechanics Division

Applied Mechanics Division

The Applied Mechanics Division is a division in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers . The AMD was founded in 1927, with Stephen Timoshenko being the first chair. The current AMD membership is over 5000, out of about 90,000 members of the ASME...

 (AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. Upon receiving recommendations from the international community of applied mechanics, the Committee nominates a single medalist every year. This nomination is subsequently approved by the ASME; no case has been reported that the ASME has ever overruled a nomination of the Koiter Medal Committee. See the list of current members of the Committee.

Koiter Medal recipients

• 2011 – James G. Simmonds
• 2010 – Nicolas Triantafyllidis
• 2009 – Stelios Kyriakides
• 2008 – Richard. D. James
  Richard D. James (scientist)
  Richard D. James is a renowned mechanician and materials scientist. He is currently the Russell J. Penrose Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota. He was educated at Brown University and at...
  
  
• 2007 – Chin-Teh Sun
• 2006 – Pierre Suquet
• 2005 – Raymond W. Ogden
• 2004 – Zenon Mróz
• 2003 – David R. J. Owen
• 2002 – James K. Knowles
• 2001 – Wolfgang G. Knauss
• 2000 – Giulio Maier
• 1999 – Charles R. Steele
• 1998 – Viggo Tvergaard
• 1997 – Warner T. Koiter
  Warner T. Koiter
  Warner Tjardus Koiter was an influential mechanical engineer and the Professor of Applied Mechanics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands from 1949 to 1979.-Life and education:...
  
  

See also

• Applied Mechanics Division
  Applied Mechanics Division
  The Applied Mechanics Division is a division in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers . The AMD was founded in 1927, with Stephen Timoshenko being the first chair. The current AMD membership is over 5000, out of about 90,000 members of the ASME...
  
  
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....
  
  
• Applied mechanics
  Applied mechanics
  Applied mechanics is a branch of the physical sciences and the practical application of mechanics. Applied mechanics examines the response of bodies or systems of bodies to external forces...
  
  
• Mechanicians