W. M. Murray Lecture

William M. Murray Lecture was initiated in 1952 as the Society’s prestige lecture.

It is presented each year as a continuing honor to Dr. William MacGregor Murray, first president and long-time secretary-treasurer, for his many contributions to SEM.

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2023 Recipient

Picture of Peter Ifju

For pioneering contributions to optical stress analysis methods and composite materials stress analysis and fabrication, including micro air vehicle design.

Zdeněk Bažant
Born and educated in Prague (Ph.D. 1963), Bažant joined Northwestern in 1969, where he has been W.P. Murphy Professor since 1990 and simultaneously McCormick Institute Professor since 2002, and Director of Center for Concrete and Geomaterials (1981-87). He was inducted to NAS, NAE, Am. Acad. of Arts & Sci., Royal Soc. London, the national academies of Austria, Japan, Italy, Spain, Canada, Czech Rep., Greece, India, Lombardy and Turin, and Academia Europaea. Honorary Member of: ASCE, ASME, ACI, RILEM. Received Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art I. Class from Pres. of Austria; 7 honorary doctorates (Prague, Karlsruhe, Colorado, Milan, Lyon, Vienna, Ohio State); ASME Medal, ASME Timoshenko, Nadai and Warner Medals; ASCE von Kármán, Freudenthal, Newmark, Biot, Mindlin, TY Lin and Croes Medals, SES Prager Medal; Guggenheim Fellow; Outstanding Res. Award from Am. Soc. for Composites; RILEM L’Hermite Medal; Exner Medal (Austria); Torroja Medal (Madrid); etc. He authored nine books, on Scaling of Struct. Strength, Creep in Concrete Str., Inelastic Analysis, Fracture and Size Effect, Stability of Structures, Concrete at High Temp., Creep & Hygrothermal Effects, Probab. Mech. of Quasibrittle Str., and Quasibrittle Fracture Mechanics. H-index: 145, 88,000 cit. (Google). In 2019 Stanford U. weighted citation survey (see PLoS), he was ranked no.1 in CE and no.2 in Engrg. worldwide. In 2015, ASCE established ZP Bažant Medal for Failure and Damage Prevention.

 
The Society acknowledges the following individuals who were given the William M. Murray Lecture in the past.
 
2022 - Peter Ifju 2021 - Nancy Sottos 2020 - Janice M. Barton
2019 - Kyung-Suk Kim 2018 - Fu-pen Chiang 2017 - Kenneth M. Liechti
2016 - Horacio Espinosa 2015 - K.T. Ramesh 2014 - G. Ravichandran
2013 - Michael A. Sutton 2012 - Gary L. Cloud 2011 - Arun Shukla
2010 - Hillar Aben 2009 - Sia Nemat-Nasser 2008 - Ryszard J. Pryputniewicz
2007 - David L. Brown 2006 - Donald A. Shockey 2005 - Ares J. Rosakis
2004 - Krishnaswamy Ravi -Chandar 2003 - Christian P. Burger 2002 - William N. Sharpe, Jr.
2001 - Cesar A. Sciammarella 2000 - Gene E. Maddux 1999 - Karl A. Stetson
1998 - Isaac M. Daniel 1997 - Rodney J. Clifton 1996 - Jorg F. Kalthoff
1995 - Wolfgang G. Knauss 1994 - Kenneth G. McConnell 1993 - C.W. Smith
1992 - Hal F. Brinson 1991 - H. Fessler 1990 - Michael E. Fourney
1989 - John F. Bell 1988- M. Nisida 1987 - Darrell R. Harting
1986 - Egor P. Popov 1985 - E. Somer 1984 - C.C. Perry
1983 - Albert S. Kobayashi 1982 - R. Mark 1981 - L.J. Broutman
1980 - A. Bray 1979 - James W. Dally 1978 - R.K. Muller
1977 - W.E. Cooper 1976 - J.E. Starr 1975 - N.M. Newmark
1974 - C.E. Taylor 1973 - G.R. Irwin 1972 - Milton M. Leven
1971 - Daniel Post 1970 - B.F. Langer 1969 - T.J. Dolan
1968 - C. Lipson 1967 - Daniel C. Drucker 1966 - E. Wenk, Jr.
1965 - August J. Durelli 1964 - S.S. Manson 1963 - H.L. Dryden
1962 - R.D. Mindlin 1961 - E. Orowan 1960 - Rudolph E. Peterson
1959 - Max M. Frocht 1958 - N. J. Hoff 1957 - C.E. Crede
1956 - Benjamin J. Lazan 1955 - A.C. Ruge 1954 - Miklos Hetényi
1953 - Steven Timoshenko 1952 - William M. Murray