Khan Award Recipients

Jean-Louis Chaboche has been an engineer at ONERA since he obtained his first thesis in 1972 and then his Ph.D. in Physics in 1978, at Univ. of Paris VI. Since 1992, he has been Research Director at Onera. In parallel with this research career, he was teaching at Ecole Centrale of Paris (1983-1994), Univ. of Technology of Compiègne (1986-1996), Univ. of Technology of Troyes as a partial time Associate Professor (1996-2008). He retired in 2015, but has still an Emeritus position at Onera.

The research domains of Dr. Chaboche cover solid mechanics, plasticity, damage and fracture mechanics, non-linear finite element analysis. His main contributions have been on: cyclic plasticity and viscoplasticity theories, non linear kinematic hardening, and development of consistent thermodynamic frameworks; pioneering developments of continuum damage mechanics (CDM) and its thermodynamic foundations; life prediction methods of critically loaded structural components, especially for high temperature conditions; multiscale approaches in solid mechanics, and their applications to metals and composites. 

Dr. Chaboche published over 130 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and co-authored the books “Mechanics of Solid Materials” and “Non-Linear Mechanics of Materials” (including their French versions). He received the Caméré Price of French Academy of Sciences in 1980 and the Silver Medal of CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in 1998. He is also the recipient of the Damage Mechanics Medal presented to him during the Second International Conference on Damage Mechanics (ICDM2), Troyes, France, 2015.

Lallit Anand is the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He received his B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur in 1970, and  earned his PhD degree in 1975 from Brown University.  The same year he joined the Fundamental Research Laboratory of the U.S. Steel Corp., and served successively as Research Scientist and Senior Research Scientist until 1981. He joined the MIT faculty In 1982. During 1989-1991 he served as the  Program Director for the Mechanics of Materials Program, as well as the Manufacturing Processes Program in the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation. At MIT he has served as the Head of the Area for Mechanics (2008-2013).

Prof. Anand has been engaged in a broad-ranging research program in Mechanics of Materials which brings systematic theory, experiment, and computation to model the large inelastic deformation of a wide variety of engineering materials, including polycrystalline metals, granular materials, amorphous metals, and polymers.  Many of the theories that he has developed have been numerically implemented in finite-element-based computer programs and are widely used for structural design and materials-processing design. He has published over 110 archival journal papers, and advised the research of 25 PhD students at MIT. He has also published a book with Morton Gurtin and Eliot Fried, titled The Mechanics and   Thermodynamics of Continua (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2010).  This book includes an extensive discussion of both small deformation and large deformation isotropic and crystal plasticity theories, as well as a modern treatment of theories of gradient-plasticity.

The honors he has received include: (i) Eric Reissner Medal, 1992, for outstanding contributions to the field of Mechanics of Materials in the past decade. From the International Society for Computational Engineering & Sciences; (ii) Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2003; (iii) Khan International Plasticity Medal, 2007, for outstanding life-long contributions to the field of Plasticity; (iv) Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2011; (v) Daniel C. Drucker Medal, 2014. This prestigious ASME medal recognizes distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering. 

Regents’ Professor and Carter N. Paden, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing, Dave McDowell joined Georgia Tech in 1983 and holds appointments in both the GWW School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering.  He served as Director of the Mechanical Properties Research Laboratory from 1992-2012.  In August 2012 he was named Founding Director of the Institute for Materials (IMat), a Georgia Tech interdisciplinary research institute charged with cultivating a campus-wide materials innovation ecosystem for research and education.  IMat is involved in regional and national leadership roles in organizing workshops for the Materials Genome Initiative (see http://www.materials.gatech.edu), and has initiatives in both shared campus materials research equipment and materials innovation.  In particular, methods are emphasized that accelerate the discovery and development of new and improved materials.

Prof. McDowell's research (http://mcdowell2.padenchair.gatech.edu/node/2) is recognized for pioneering engineering contributions in two distinct but complementary fields: (i) microstructure-sensitive computational methods to simulate and predict fatigue life variability in metal alloy microstructures, providing decision support for development of fatigue resistant alloys to reduce costly empiricism; (ii) technologies and methods for multiscale modeling of inelasticity and damage in structural materials, combining these strategies with systems based design methods that address uncertainty.  Prof. McDowell has authored or co-authored over 400 published papers and has advised or co-advised more than 80 graduate students.   In addition to the Khan Award, professional recognition includes the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the Scientific Committee of Fatigue Damage in Structural Materials (2016), and the 1997 ASME Nadai Award for contributions to the field of engineering materials. He is Fellow of ASME, ASM, American Academy of Mechanics, and the Society for Engineering Science (SES) (35th elected Fellow since its founding in 1974).

Dr. Ohno is an Emeritus Professor at Nagoya University and a Senior Researcher at Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute. He received a Dr.Eng. from Nagoya University in 1979 and joined Toyohashi University of Technology in 1980. He returned to Nagoya University as an Associate Professor in 1988, and was promoted to a full Professor at Nagoya University in 1994.

Dr. Ohno has authored or co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in English in several areas including cyclic plasticity, creep damage mechanics, homogenization methods, and strain gradient plasticity. His main contributions in research are: development of non-linear kinematic hardening models for ratcheting; postulation of a non-hardening region under cyclic loading; implementation of cyclic plasticity models in FEMs; representation of anisotropic creep damage using a second rank tensor; formulation of a homogenization method for time-dependent composites; buckling analysis of cellular solids using a homogenization method; and derivation of higher-order stress based on GND self-energy. Cyclic plasticity subroutines developed in his group are used in industries.

In addition to the Khan International Award (2009), Dr. Ohno has received the ICES K. Washizu medal (2001), the JSMS Award for Academic Contribution (2005), the JSME Computational Mechanics Award (2010), the JSME Materials and Mechanics Award (2013), etc. He served as a Vice President of the JSME (2014). His contributions to the field of plasticity can be read in further detail in the preface of the Liber Amicorum which was published by Springer to celebrate his 65th birthday in 2015.

Dr. Zbib is Professor at Washington State University in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, where he also served as the School Director from 2003 until 2011. He is also the Director for the Computational Mechanics and Materials Science Laboratory, and is affiliate professor in Materials Science and Engineering Program at WSU. He served as Editor in Chief of the ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, 2008-2013; and held short-term appointments at a number of national and international institutions.  Zbib has over 30 years of experience in academia, as an educator, researcher and administrator.  He received his PhD in 1987 in the area of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from Michigan Technological University. His research is in the areas of engineering mechanics and materials science with focus on the thermo-mechanical behavior of materials.  In materials research he works on problems in the theory of dislocation, dislocation dynamics, defects, crystal plasticity, radiation effects, and materials for high-energy efficiency. In mechanics research he is interested in damage and fracture, multiscale modeling and analysis, plasticity, composites, and materials instabilities.  His publication record includes 12 edited books and over 250 technical articles.  Zbib is ASME Fellow, AAAS Fellow, PNNL Fellow, and member of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences. 

Robert H. Wagoner is Professor Emeritus, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University.  He was Chairman from 1992 to 1996, worked at the G. M. Research Laboratories from 1977 to 1983, and was NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 1977.  He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from Ohio State in 1974, 1975, and 1976.

Dr. Wagoner is the co-author of more than 300 technical articles, 2 proceedings volumes, 2 combined proceedings and authored books, and 2 text books.  These contributions are in the areas of metal forming, plasticity theory, finite element analysis, mechanical behavior of materials and micro-mechanisms of deformation.  

Dr. Wagoner is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow or equivalent of five professional societies:  ASME, SAE, TMS, ASM, and AIME.  His has received recognition for research, including the Robert Lansing Hardy Gold Medal, Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial Award (twice), Presidential Young Investigator Award, SAE Melbourne Award, and the Champion H. Mathewson Gold Medal.  

Dr. Wagoner’s work includes: springback measurement and simulation; identifying and quantifying nonlinear stress-strain behavior before plastic yielding; deformation-induced heating and its role on ductile fracture; novel tests developed for reverse path hardening, formability, springback, and nonlinear pre-yield behavior.

George Z. Voyiadjis is the Boyd Professor at the Louisiana State University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is also the holder of the Freeport-MacMoRan Endowed Chair in Engineering. He joined the faculty of Louisiana State University in 1980. 

Voyiadjis is a Foreign Member of both the Polish Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea for his pioneering contributions in the areas of material modelling, plasticity, and damage. He is the recipient of the 2008 Nathan M. Newmark Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the 2012 Khan International Medal. He is also the recipient of the Damage Mechanics Medal presented to him during the Second International Conference on Damage Mechanics (ICDM2), Troyes, France, 2015. He is a fellow of EMI, ASME, SES, and AAM and a Distinguished Member of ASCE.

Voyiadjis’ primary research interest is in plasticity and damage mechanics of metals, metal matrix composites, polymers and ceramics with emphasis on the theoretical modeling, atomistic simulation of plasticity, numerical simulation of material behavior, and experimental correlation. Voyiadjis’ research has focused on developing numerical models that aim at simulating the plasticity and damage for dynamic failure response of advanced engineering materials and structures under high-speed impact loading conditions. This work has guided the development of design criteria and fabrication processes of high performance materials and structures under severe loading conditions. 

He has two patents, over 300 refereed journal articles and 18 books (11 as editor) to his credit. Over 56 graduate students, of which 31 Ph.D.’s, completed their degrees under his direction. He has also supervised numerous postdoctoral associates.

Professor Barlat received a PhD in Mechanics from the Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, in 1984.  The same year, he joined the R&D facility of Alcoa in the USA where he conducted scientific research for more than 20 years.  He is currently a professor at the Pohang University of Science and Technology in the Republic of Korea.  He is also an Adjunct Professor of the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and an honorary professor of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania.  His research focuses on the development of innovative plasticity theories for metals as well as forming technologies for advanced products.  In particular, his work on the mathematical description of plastic anisotropy has received much attention from researchers in the field.  His most successful models have been implemented in commercial finite element codes and widely used in academia and industry.  Professor Barlat holds three US patents and published over 250 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is the recipient of the 1995 Henry Marion Howe Medal of the Material Society (ASM) and the 2011 Lee Hsun Lecture Award from the Chinese Academy of Science. 

In 1972 Paul Van Houtte joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Leuven, first as a doctoral student, to become full professor in 1995 and Professor Emeritus on 1/1/2013. He served as Chairman of his Department from 1996 to 2004, and as Chairman of the Commission on Scientific Integrity of his University from 2008 to 2014. In 1999, he was appointed Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium, where he served as Director of the Class of Natural Sciences from 2014-2015 and as member of the Board of Directors from 2012 to 2017. In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics in London. He is well known for his work in the fields of crystallographic textures of materials, residual stress, and plasticity theory. Examples of his main topics: determination of ODFs of materials (orientation distribution functions), following the method of the late Professor H.J. Bunge, with applications in the methods of simulation of deformation textures of metals; calculation of the yield surfaces of textured metallic materials, and measurement of their residual stresses.  He is author or co-author of 275 papers in scientific journals with peer review. In 2005, he chaired together with Prof. Leo Kestens the 14th International Conference on Textures of Materials (ICOTOM 14) in Leuven and became Chairman of the International Committee of ICOTOM from 2008 until 2014. The University of Metz (presently: University of Lorraine) awarded him a Honorary Doctoral degree in 1998. On the year 2000 the Flemish National Science Foundation (FWO) awarded him in the presence of His Majesty King Albert II the five-yearly “De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize” for the field of Engineering. In 2013, the "Société Française de Métaux et Matériaux" awarded him the "Sainte Claire-Deville Medal". 

Georges Cailletaud is Professor, MINES ParisTech, at PSL (Paris Sciences Lettres) Research University. He was the deputy director of the Mechanics and Materials  Department  of MINES ParisTech between 2008 and 2011, and of Centre des Matériaux between 2006 and 2011. He was educated as a civil engineer at Ecole Centrale de Paris (1975), got his PhD from University of Paris 6 in 1979, and became doctor of Sciences of the same university in 1987.  He worked at ONERA (the French Aerospace Lab) between 1979 and 1984.  He joined Ecole des Mines in 1984 as an associate professor, and became full professor in 1994. 

Georges Cailletaud is author or co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed articles, with a large number of citations in the field of phase transformations, crystal plasticity, cyclic loading, thermomechanical fatigue. His general research topics are in the field of the Mechanics of Materials, the goal being to promote the link between metallurgy and mechanics, and also between academics and people from industry. His main achievements are the effective implementation of advanced material models (in a macroscopic framework or accounting for microstructures) into a finite element code. They are now used by car industry and aeronautical companies (http://www.zset-software.com/).

Dr Cailletaud has been involved in a series of national and international actions, and committees, including an active participation as a member of the European Research Council, and some other european institutions. As a teacher, he is the founder of an open access web site gathering courses on materials, mechanics and structures (http://mms2.ensmp.fr/).

Dr. Tomé joined Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1996 as Scientist, where he is currently a Laboratory Fellow. Prior, he was a Professor at the National University of Rosario (Argentina) and Scientific Staff Member at Atomic Energy of Canada. He holds a doctorate in Physics from the National University of La Plata (Argentina). For the last 30 years, his research interest has been on elastic, plastic and creep behavior of polycrystalline aggregates. Specifically, development of constitutive equations at the single crystal level for low symmetry metals and geologic materials. His research includes pioneering the theoretical and numerical modeling of mechanical behavior of polycrystals, with a focus on the role played by texture, twinning and microstructure. His numerical codes are used by material scientists in academia and research centers to simulate mechanical response of crystal aggregates.

Dr. Tomé has over 190 peer-reviewed publications and has co-authored the books, “Texture and Anisotropy” and “Fundamentals and Engineering of Severe Plastic Deformation”. He received the 2013 Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award presented by the Structural Materials Division of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), and the 2016 Cyril Stanley Smith Award, awarded by TMS Honors and Professional Recognition Committee and the TMS Board of Directors.  

Previous to his current positions, Dr. Levitas worked at: Institute for Superhard Materials of the Ukrainian Academy of Science in Kiev (1978 to 1994), where he was Group Leader and Leading Scientist; at the University of Hannover in Germany (1992-1999); Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, USA (1999-2008); and as a Schafer 2050 Challenge Professor at Iowa State University.  

Prof. Levitas’ research (http://www.aere.iastate.edu/directory/?user_page=vlevitas ) includes large elastoplastic deformation and phase transformations, as well as their interaction, in metals, ceramics, and superhard materials. He is recognized for pioneering contributions in high pressure mechanochemistry, in particular, for four-scale (from atomistic to macroscale) theory and computations explaining the role of plastic deformation on the drastic reduction  of pressure for phase transformations and chemical reactions. He is also recognized for initiating the corresponding experimental work with rotational diamond anvil cells in the USA. Prof. Levitas made significant contributions to the development of multiscale phase-field approaches for modeling microstructure evolution during martensitic phase transformations, dislocation evolutions, twinning, and their interaction. He also introduced the virtual melting concept for crystal-crystal and crystal-amorphous phase transformations and plastic flow at temperatures hundreds and thousands degrees below the melting temperature.

Prof. Levitas has published 3 books, 11 book chapters, and 245 refereed journal papers, 89 proceedings papers, 31 technical reports, as well as 11 patents. In addition to the Khan Plasticity Award, Dr. Levitas has received the Richard von Mises Award of the Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM, Germany), the International Journal of Engineering Sciences Distinguished Paper Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship and also Alumni Award, a Honorary Doctorate from the Institute for Superhard Materials of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, the Outstanding Research Awards from Iowa State University and Texas Tech University, and others. Prof. Levitas is a Fellow of ASME. 

Surya Kalidindi is a Regents’ Professor and Rae S. and Frank H. Neely Chair Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA with joint appointments in the School of Computational Science and Engineering and the Materials Science and Engineering. Surya earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, and joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University as an Assistant Professor. After twenty years at Drexel University, Surya moved into his current position at Georgia Tech. Surya’s research has made seminal contributions to the fields of crystal plasticity, microstructure design, spherical indentation stress-strain protocols, and materials informatics.

Surya Kalidindi has published over 240 articles in archival journals in addition to eight book chapters and two books. Surya has been elected a Fellow of ASM International, TMS, and ASME. In 2016, he and his group members have been awarded the top prize as well as one of the runner-up prizes in the national Materials Science and Engineering Data Challenge sponsored by the Air Force Research Lab in partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. National Science Foundation. In addition to the Khan International Award, he has also been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, the Vannever Bush Faculty Fellow, and the Government of India’s Vajra Faculty Award.

Professor Huseyin Sehitoglu received his BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering (First Class Honors) from City, University of London in 1979, and his M.S. 1981 and PhD 1983 degrees from Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, Urbana. He has been a faculty member at University of Illinois since 1983, served as Program Director, Mechanics of Materials, National Science Foundation during 1991-1993, and was a Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University during 1994-1995. Professor Sehitoglu was the Head of the newly formed Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at Illinois during the 2004-2009 period. He currently holds the John, Alice and Sarah Nyquist Chair in the same department.

Prof. Sehitoglu has published extensively (more than 280 journal papers) in the area of fatigue of materials, shape memory alloys (SMAs), twinning and phase transformation in materials. The entire listing of his papers can be found at the website http://html.mechse.illinois.edu/publications. He contributed significantly to areas such as thermo-mechanical fatigue, fatigue crack closure, martensite twinning, and non-Schmid effects in deformation of shape memory alloys. Professor Sehitoglu placed more than twelve of his PhD students in academic positions as faculty members. In total, he advised nearly 70 graduate students and 40 postdocs and international visitors in his career. Professor Sehitoglu serves as Chair of Engineering Advisory Board, Aalto University, Finland. He received an honorary doctorate degree from Aalto University in 2018 and an honorary membership from the German Materials Society the same year.  Earlier, he received the Nadai Medal from ASME in 2007 and Marcus Grossman Award from ASM in 1998. 

2023 Khan International Award Recipient

Jeong Whan Yoon is currently a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST in Korea, a joint research professor at Deakin University in Australia and a fellow of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology. He received his PhD from KAIST in 1997. He was awarded the “2023 Khan International Award” for his lifetime outstanding contributions in the field of plasticity. Dr. Yoon's research areas include high-reliability design and manufacturing of lightweight materials and structures. He has been responsible for the High-Speed Mechanical Properties Data Center since 2019. He has led research at the GM-chaired Research Center for Innovative Manufacturing (ICIM) at Deakin University since 2015. He also led research at the Boeing-chaired Manufacturing Research Center (AusAMRC) at Swinburne University.

Dr. Yoon has published more than 300 technical papers in international academic journals and conferences. He was awarded the “2008 International Journal of Plasticity Young Researcher Award” for his outstanding contribution to the field of plasticity over five years. He is currently Associate Editor of the International Journal of Plasticity. In addition, he was the guest editor of nine special issues of Int. J. Plasticity and two issues of Int. J. Solids and Structures. Dr. Yoon has diverse industry experience, including LG Electronics (Korea), MSC Software Corporation (USA), and Alcoa Technical Center (USA). He has served as Chair of major conferences including NUMISHEET2014 held in Melbourne, Australia, APEA2018 held in Jeju Island, Korea, and ICPDF2023 held in the Dominican Republic.