The Warner T. Koiter Medal was established in 1996 by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. It is awarded in recognition of distinguished work in the field of solid mechanics. The award was funded by the Technical University of Delft in the honor of Warner T. Koiter, who was a professor at the university from 1949 till 1979. Koiter's most influential work dealt with the non-linear stability of structures. The recipient is given an honorarium and a bronze medal.
Nomination procedure The Koiter Medal Committee consists of the five recent Koiter 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 Committee on Honors.
Koiter Medal recipients 2024 – H. Jerry Qi 2023 – Yiu-Wing Mai 2022 – Vikram Deshpande 2021 – Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Austria 2020 – Anthony Waas, University of Michigan 2019 – K. T. Ramesh, Johns Hopkins University 2018 – M. Taher A. Saif, University of Illinois 2017 – Wei Yang, Zhejiang University 2016 – Pedro Ponte Castañeda, University of Pennsylvania 2015 – Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology 2014 – G. Ravichandran, California Institute of Technology 2013 – Norman A. Fleck, Cambridge University 2012 – Erik van der Giessen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 2011 – James G. Simmonds 2010 – Nicolas Triantafyllidis 2009 – Stelios Kyriakides 2008 – Richard. D. James, University of Minnesota 2007 – Chin-Teh Sun 2006 – Pierre Suquet 2005 – Raymond W. Ogden 2004 – Zenon Mróz, Polish Academy of Sciences 2003 – David R. J. Owen 2002 – James K. Knowles, California Institute of Technology 2001 – Wolfgang G. Knauss, California Institute of Technology 2000 – Giulio Maier 1999 – Charles R. Steele 1998 – Viggo Tvergaard 1997 – Warner T. Koiter
References Information for nomination Koiter Medal page at the ASME website
See also American Society of Mechanical Engineers – Mechanical engineering professional society Applied mechanics – Practical application of mechanics Applied Mechanics Division List of mechanical engineering awards Mechanician