The Daniel C. Drucker medal was instituted in 1997 by the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Drucker Medal is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the fields of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering. The award is given in honor of Daniel C. Drucker, who was internationally known for contributions to the theory of plasticity and its application to analysis and design in metal structures. The recipient is given a medal and an honorarium.
Nomination procedure The Drucker Medal Committee consists of the five recent Drucker Medalists, the five members of the executive committee of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division (AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. Upon receiving recommendations from the international community of applied mechanics, the Committee nominates a single medalist every year. This nomination is subsequently approved by the ASME; no case has been reported that the ASME has ever overruled a nomination of the Drucker Medal Committee. See the list of current members of the Committee.
Recipients
Source: ASME
1998 Daniel C. Drucker 1999 Ascher H. Shapiro 2000 Philip G. Hodge Jr. 2001 Bruno A. Boley 2002 George J. Dvorak 2003 Leon M. Keer 2004 Frank A. McClintock 2005 Robert L. Taylor 2006 Alan Needleman 2007 Albert S. Kobayashi 2008 Thomas C.T. Ting 2009 James R. Barber 2010 Rohan Abeyaratne 2011 John W. Rudnicki 2012 James W. Dally 2013 Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University, USA. 2014 Lallit Anand, MIT 2015 Krishnaswami Ravi-Chandar, University of Texas at Austin 2016 Kyung-Suk Kim 2017 David M. Parks 2018 David M. Barnett 2019 John L. Bassani 2020 Glaucio H. Paulino 2021 Markus J. Buehler 2022 Horacio D. Espinosa, Northwestern University
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References Information for nomination Drucker Medal web page at ASME site