BELTYSCHKO MEDAL

2023, David Benson, Ansys

For outstanding contributions to the development and commercialization of computational mechanics and materials science technology, especially finite element methods for transient, large-deformation problems in solid mechanics and fluid-structure interaction.

2021, Gordon Johnson, Southwest Research Institute

In recognition of pioneering and lasting contributions to high-rate computational solid dynamics, particularly constitutive models for metals and brittle materials and explicit methods for finite element and meshfree particle analysis.

2019, Romesh Batra, Virginia Institute of Technology

For outstanding computational work for analyzing Adiabatic Shear Bands, proposing modified- and smooth-symmetric particle hydrodynamics (MSPH/SSPH) basis functions and the method of manufactured solutions for code verification.

2017, Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen, University of California, San Diego

For seminal contributions to the development of stabilized Galerkin and collocation meshfree methods, and their applications to multiscale materials modeling of solids and structures subjected to extreme loading conditions

2015, Stewart Silling, Sandia National Laboratories

For developing and dmonstrating peridynamics as a new mechanic methodology for modeling fracture and high strain deformation in solids

2013, Subrata Mukherjee, Cornell University

For his outstanding and sustained contributions to computational solid mechanics, especially the seminal work on boundary integral equation based numerical methods and their applications in emerging engineering fields.

2011, Noboru Kikuchi, University of Michigan

For seminal contributions to the field of topology optimization in computational structural design

2009, Roger Ghanem, University of Southern California

For outstanding and sustained contributions to the development and dissemination of uncertainty quantification methods and their application to structural engineering

2007, Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology

2005, Jacob Fish, Columbia University

For his contributions to multiscale computational methods

2003, J. N. Reddy, Texas A&M University

For significant and lasting contributions to education, research, and professional service to computational mechanics through the publication of well-received textbooks and archival research papers on computational methods and applied mechanics

2001, Wing-Kam Liu, Northwestern University

For his wide and fundamental contributions in computational mechanics for the analysis of structures and fluid-structure systems, and his latest contributions in meshless methods

1999, Richard MacNeal, MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation

1997, Ted Belytschko, Northwestern University