Every four years, ICF  bestows four gold medals, to honor Takeo Yokobori, Alan Cottrell, George Irwin and Paul Paris, and one silver medal, to honor Constance Tipper, together with the award of several ICF Honorary Fellows.

We are pleased to announce the ICF Medal recipients for ICF-15

ICF Takeo Yokobori Gold Medal

Prof. Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar-  For major contributions in the leadership of ICF & outstanding research in the field of fracture.      

Prof. Shouwen Yu-  For spearheading the role of China in the development & effectiveness of ICF.

ICF Alan Cottrell Gold Medal

Prof. Anthony J. Kinloch-  For seminal contributions to the adhesion of solids & superior properties of polymer composites.

Prof. R. Narasimhan- For an outstanding career in the development and applications of fracture mechanics

ICF George Irwin Gold Medal

Prof. William A. Curtin- For pioneering contributions to multiscale mechanics modeling of materials.

Prof. Huajian Gao  (Singapore)- For leadership & major contributions on the mechanics of engineering & biological materials.

Prof. Norman Fleck- For seminal contributions to the deformation & failure of solids & structures.                                                                                                                                                        

ICF Paul C. Paris Gold Medal

Prof. Shiro Kubo- For his seminal contributions to the field of creep and creep-fatigue fractures emanating from cracks in metals

Prof. David L. McDowell- For the development of microstructure-sensitive constitutive models for material failure.

Prof. Huseyin Sehitoglu- For major contributions on the complexity of fatigue failure of a broad range of materials.

ICF Constance Tipper Silver Medal

Dr. Filippo Berto- For critical understanding of the fracture of complex materials, including metamaterials.

Dr. Dong Liu- For innovative research on high-temperature material failure, especially for nuclear applications

Dr. Ashley Spear- For innovative research in simulating 3-D cracking and multi-scale modeling of fracture in metals

ICF Honorary Fellow

Prof. Robert M. McMeeking- For advancements in theoretical and computational mechanics for enhancing the understanding of the performance of materials

ICF Honorary Fellow

Prof. Yukitaka Murakami-  For seminal contributions to the understanding of the fatigue behavior of materials and structures

ICF Honorary Fellow

Dr. L. R. Francis Rose- For the development of fracture mechanics-based methods for structural health monitoring

List of ICF Fellows
1.     A.S. Argon	1983	35.  Brian Lawn	2005
2.     M.F. Ashby	1983	36.  H. Liebowitz*	1979
3.     S. N Atluri	1993	37.  Y.-W. Mai	2001
4.     B. Averbach*	1977	38.  F.A. McClintock*	1989
5.     Leslie Banks-Sills	2005	39.  A. J. McEvily	2009
6.     G.I. Barenblatt*	2009	40.  K.J. Miller*	1997
7.     B.A. Bilby*	1981	41.  J. Nemec	1984
8.     A.J. Carlsson	1983	42.  R.W. Nichols*	1977
9.     Alberto Carpinteri	2009	43.  P.C. Paris*	1989
10.  G.P. Cherapnov	1989	44.  V.V. Panasyuk	1993
11.  A.H. Cottrell*	1984	45.  A. Pineau	1993
12.  Robert Dodds	2005	46.  Y. Rabatnov	1984
13.  M. Elboujdaini	2009	47.  K. Ravi-Chandar	2001
14.  David Embury	2009	48.  J.R. Rice	1981
15.  Fazel  Erdogan	2005	49.  R.O. Ritchie	1989
16.  A.G. Evans*	1993	50.  K.S. Salama	1993
17.  D. Francois*	1983	51.  J. L. Swedlow*	1989
18.  E. Gdoutos	2009	52.  G.C. Sih	1979
19.  W.W. Gerberich	2001	53.  A. Saxena	2009
20.  R.V. Goldstein*	1993	54.  D.M.R. Taplin	1977
21.  K.C. Hwang	2001	55.  S.R. Valluri*	1984
22.  A.K. Head*	1997	56.  A.A. Wells*	1989
23.  J.W. Hutchinson	1989	57.  Gordon Williams	2005
24.  A. Ingraffea	2009	58.  M.L. Williams*	1989
25.  G.R. Irwin*	1981	59.  T. Yokobori*	1977
26.  T. Kanazawa*	1984	60.  Shouwen Yu	2005
27.  B.L. Karihaloo	2001	61.  Zheng Zhimin	1984
28.  T. Kawasaki	1981	62.  S.N. Zhurkov*	1986
29.  A. Kelly	2009	63.  Tongyi Zhang	2013
30.  F. Kerkof	1984	64.  A. T. Yokobori	2013
31.  Albert Kobayashi	2005	65.  Claude Bathais*	2013
32.  W.G. Knaus	1997	66.  Wei Yang	2013
33.  J. F. Knott*	1984	67.  Stephen D. Antolovich	2013
34.  A. Kochendorfer*	1977

 

List of Past ICF Gold and Silver Medal Recipients
Takeo Yokobori Gold Medal
David M.R. Taplin	2009
P. Rama Rao	2013
Yiu Wing Mai	2013
Teruo Kishi	2013
Emmanuel Gdoutos	2017
A.T. Yokobori	2017
Alan Cottrell Gold Medal
Robert O. Ritchie	2009
Subra Suresh	2013
John F. Knott	2013
Michael F. Ashby	2017
George Irwin Gold Medal
Paul C. Paris	2009
James R. Rice	2013
John Hutchinson	2013
Robert V. Goldstein	2017
Paul C. Paris Gold Medal
Alberto Carpinteri	2013
Y. Murakami	2013
Ashok Saxena	2017
Richard Hertzberg	2017
Constance Tipper Silver Medal
Julia King	2013
Diane Lados	2013
Namrata Gundiah	2013
Sylvie Pommier	2017
Francesco Iacoviello	2017

 

2023 Poster Awards

1st Place Post Doctoral Researcher Poster Presentation,  “FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR OF HPT PROCESSED MARAGING STEELS” by Kevin Jacob

2nd Place Post Doctoral Researcher Poster Presentation, “CRACK GROWTH UNDER THERMO-MECHANICAL FATIGUE IN NICKEL CAST ALLOYS” by Karl Michael Kraemer

3rd Place Post Doctoral Researcher Poster Presentation, “FULL FIELD MEASUREMENT OF SHOCK COMPRESSION DEFORMATION ACROSS THE CRYSTAL BINDER INTERFACE OF PDMS-SUCROSE USING TIME RESOLVED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY” by Mahavir Singh

1st Place Student Poster Presentation, “ON THE STRENGTH AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED CrCoNi MEDIUM ENTROPY ALLOY” by David Cook

2nd Place Student Poster Presentation, “GRAIN BOUNDARY SLIDING AND INTRAGRANULAR SLIP MEASUREMENT IN-SITU DURING CREEP “ by Benjamin Elbrecht

3rd Place Student Poster Presentation, “FLOWFORMING TO IMPROVE THE FATIGUE LIFE OF ORTHOPAEDIC IMPLANTS?” by Mohamed Akram Mechter