Khan International Award for Outstanding Lifelong Contributions to the Field of Plasticity
Recipients of the Khan International Award are being recognized for “outstanding life-long contributions in the field of plasticity primarily through research contributions in all international journals in general and International Journal of Plasticity in particular”. Other contributions such as books and monographs on plasticity, as well as service contributions such as review contributions and symposia organizations at all conferences including International Conference on Plasticity, Damage and Fracture, are also considered. The Committee for the award consists of previous winners of the award with senior most member acting as the Chair, who retires to accommodate the new winner in the committee. The criterion for selection includes fifty percent numerical input based on citations of his/her research papers, plus fifty percent objective input by the committee members. The award was established by the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Plasticity, Professor Akhtar S. Khan and his wife, Dr. Tanveer A. Khan.
Khan International Award Recipients
2006 Prof. Jean-Louis Chaboche - ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab (France)
2007 Prof. Lallit Anand - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
2008 Prof. David McDowell - Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
2009 Prof. Nobutada Ohno – Nagoya University (Japan)
2010 Prof. Hussein Zbib – Washington State University (USA)
2011 Prof. Robert H. Wagoner - Ohio State University (USA)
2012 Prof. George Z. Voyiadjis – Lousiana State University (USA)
2013 Prof. Frédéric Barlat – Pohang Univ of Science and Technology (S. Korea)
2014 Prof. Paul Van Houtte – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
2015 Prof. Georges Cailletaud - MINES Paris Tech (France)
2016 Dr. Carlos N. Tomé – Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
2018 Prof. Valery I. Levitas – Iowa State University & Ames Laboratory (USA)
2019 Prof. Surya R. Kalidindi – Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
2020 Prof. Huseyin Sehitoglu – University of Illinois, Urbana (USA)
2023 Prof. Jeong Whan Yoon - Korea Advanced Inst of Sc & Tech (Korea)