M. HETÉNYI AWARD

This award was established in 1967 for the best research paper published in Experimental Mechanics. It was named in honor of Dr. Miklos Hetényi. A brief biography and an abridged list of Dr. Hetényi's professional accomplishments follow:

Education: University of Technical Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 1924-30; Diploma in Civil Engineering, 1931; Graduate work with H.M. Westerguard, Univ. of Illinois, 1934-35 and with S.P. Timoshenko, Univ. of Michigan, 1935-36; PhD in Eng. Mechanics, 1936.

Publications: Author of over 70 scientific papers on analytical and experimental mechanics and on the theory of structures; Beams on Elastic Foundations, Univ. of Michigan, 1946; Coeditor of Proc. of the Tenth International Congress on Applied Mechanics, Springer Ed., 1969.

Contributions to SEM: 1 of 4 founders, 1943; Vice President, 1943-44; 2nd President, 1944-45; Editor, Handbook of Experimental Stress Analysis, 1950.

General Contributions: Development and Application of Three-Dimensional Photoelasticity; Development of a "Reduction Method" for the Analysis of Continuous Frames; Development of a "Method of Initial Parameters" for the Analysis of beams, beam-grillages, and beams in elastic foundations; Solution for Axi-Symmetrical Deformation of Spherical Shells and Related Structures.

Past Recipients are:

2009 M. Hetényi Award:  Dirk Mohr, and Stefan Henn

“Calibration of Stress-triaxiality Dependent Crack Formation Criteria: A New Hybrid Experimental-Numerical Method,” Experimental Mechanics, Vol. 47, No. 6,
pp. 805-820, 2007

Dr. Dirk Mohr is currently a CNRS research assistant professor at the Solid Mechanics Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique in France and a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Before joining the CNRS in 2006, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at MIT’s Impact and Crashworthiness Lab. He was educated at the University of Karlsruhe (Dipl.-Ing., 1999) and MIT (MS, 2000, PhD 2003). His main research interests are in finite strain plasticity and experimental dynamics.

Dr. Stefan Henn joined the R&D department of BMW in Munich in 1997, after graduating with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering as well as in economics from the University of Bremen. Since then, he acquired extensive experience in the modeling of metallic materials. He received a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe in 2005 for his work on the failure of aluminum castings. His current responsibilities at BMW include the functional concept design and integration.