Several prestigious internationally recognized awards are given at the Annual ASME Aerospace Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials (SSDM) Conference. These awards are very well recognized amongst the Aerospace SDM community. The winners will be honored throughout the conference including an invitation to the Award Luncheon. We encourage you to review the honor details below.
The Spirit of St. Louis Medal
The Spirit of St. Louis Medal is awarded for meritorious service in the advancement of aeronautics and astronautics. The medal was established in 1929 by Philip D. Ball, ASME Members, and Citizens of St. Louis, Missouri.
Recipient
Stephen W. Tsai
Born and raised in Beijing, Steve Tsai earned his D.Eng at Yale University in 1961. He began his work in composites at Ford/Aeronutronic, continued onto Washington University in 1966, Air Force Materials Laboratory in 1968; and Stanford University since 1990. His early works included Tsai-Hill and Tsai-Wu failure criteria, lamination parameter plots, and invariant transformation relations. He started Journal of Composite Materials in 1967, and co-authored Introduction to Composite Materials in 1980. He was elected to the US Academy of Engineers in 1995. Since his retirement from Stanford in 2001, his work led to single parameters for laminate stiffness in Tsai's modulus, and von Mises area in laminate failure envelopes. Materials and laminates can then be ranked and scaled. He also discovered double-double lamination that is rapidly replacing the legacy Quad. He conducted 17 annual Composites Workshop at the University of California/Berkeley up to 1991; and 27 online workshops at Stanford since 2006. His goal is to make composite laminates easy to understand and can achieve a weight savings of 50 percent, layup rate of 6X, ply drops in singles, and other innovations. Composites will become more competitive and fulfill the anticipated promise.
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ASME/Boeing Structures and Materials Award
Outstanding paper presented at the annual ASME Aerospace Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials (SSDM) conference, on the basis of originality and significance to the field.
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John J. Montgomery Award for Distinguished Innovation in Aerospace
The Montgomery Innovation Award will recognize the outstanding contribution of an individual engineer residing in the international community who has researched, designed or developed (or any combination thereof) new technologies or equipment for the aerospace industry, i.e., propulsion, aerospace structure/materials, stability and control, etc. As a professional in industry, each recipient will have significantly contributed to aeronautics and astronautics, and the engineering community at large. Awardees will have demonstrated originality, forward-thinking, and a thirst for innovation. The recipient will have helped to revolutionize the industry and open the door for greater progress in the field.
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Topic Organizer Award
The SSDM Topic Organizer Award recognizes the outstanding contribution of an individual topic organizer who made significant efforts into organizing one or more SSDM topics.