Journal of Applied Mechanics Award
The Journal of Applied Mechanics Award is provided by the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to honor the best paper which has been published in the Journal of Applied Mechanics during the two calendar years immediately preceding the year of the award. The award will be made annually to the corresponding author of the paper who received their Ph.D. no more than 10 years prior to July 1 of the year of award. Corresponding authors who have yet to receive a Ph.D. may also be considered. The award is presented at the AMD Banquet at the annual IMECE meeting.
2025
Zhichao Fan, Hunan University
Shape Programming of Porous Bilayer Hydrogel Structures |
2024
Heling Wang, Tsinghua University
Tunable Three-Dimensional Vibrational Structures for Concurrent Determination of Thin Film Modulus and Density |
2023
Evgueni T. Filipov, University of Michigan
Dynamics of Necking and Fracture in Ductile Porous Materials |
2022
Ankit Srivastava, Texas A&M University
Dynamics of Necking and Fracture in Ductile Porous Materials
Kedar Kirane, Stony Brook University
Fracture and Energetic Strength Scaling of Soft, Brittle, and Weakly Nonlinear Elastomers
Xiaojia Shelly Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Topology Optimization With Many Right-Hand Sides Using Mirror Descent Stochastic Approximation—Reduction From Many to a Single Sample |
2021
Yuhang Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kinetics of Polyelectrolyte Gels
Kathryn Matlack, University of Illinois
Experimental Testing of Vibration Mitigation in 3D-Printed Architected Metastructures
Ruike Zhao, Ohio State University
Micromechanics Study on Actuation Efficiency of Hard-Magnetic Soft Active Materials |
2020
Shengqiang Cai, University of California, San Diego
Determining Prestrains in an Elastomer Through Elliptical Indentation |
2019
Ahmed Elbanna, University of Illinois
On the Role of the Plaque Porous Structure in Mussel Adhesion: Implications for Adhesion Control Using Bulk Patterning |
2018
Charles Wojnar, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Linking Internal Dissipation Mechanisms to the Effective Complex Viscoelastic Moduli of Ferroelectrics |
2017
Yihui Zhang, Tsinghua University
Mechanics of Fractal-Inspired Horseshoe Microstructures for Applications in Stretchable Electronics |
2016
Ken Kamrin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eulerian Method for Multiphase Interactions of Soft Solid Bodies in Fluids |
2015
Xuanhe Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Phase Diagrams of Instabilities in Compressed Film-Substrate Systems |
2014 (jointly awarded)
Markus J. Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bioinspired Graphene Nanogut |
Katia Bertoldi, Harvard University
Oscar Lopez-Pamies, University of Illinois
Some Remarks on the Effect of Interphases on the Mechanical Response and Stability of Fiber-Reinforced Elastomers |
2013
Asha Nurse, Brown University
A Model of Force Generation in a Three-Dimensional Toroidal Cluster of Cells |