CCM Newsletter July 21, 2005

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CCM Congratulates 2005 Medal of Excellence Winners

The Center for Composite Materials is pleased to announce that the winners of the 2005 Medal of Excellence in Composite Materials are Dr. John C. Halpin, Dr. Nicholas J. Pagano, and Dr. James M. Whitney.

The medal ceremony will be held in conjunction with the American Society for Composites 20th Annual Technical Conference hosted by Drexel University on September 7-9, 2005. The ceremony will be
held after the awards banquet on September 8th.

For additional Conference information, go to http://www.materials.drexel.edu/fml/asc/

The Medal of Excellence in Composite Materials was created to honor those who have achieved outstanding leadership in the field of composites

About the Winners

Dr. John C. Halpin
Chief Engineer, Aeronautical System Center Air Force Material Command (retired, 1996), JCH Consultants Inc., Dayton OH

Dr. John Halpin has had a long and distinguished career in the aerospace field. He spent more than 30 years with the Air Force Material Command at Wright Patterson AFB, retiring from government service in 1996. As Chief Engineer for the Aeronautical System Center, Dr. Halpin had responsibility for the chief engineers of ASC's development programs including all USAF aircraft development activities and the ASC's engineering staff. In 1986, Aviation Week and Science Technology recognized Dr. Halpin for his outstanding contributions in the field of aerospace. His personal efforts included contributions to the F-14, F-15, F-16, B-1, B-2 aircraft and a variety of subsystems. He led the USAF initiatives in acquisition reform for performance specifications, as well as systems engineering, open systems for avionics, and integrated technical, cost, and schedule risk management processes. From the 1960s through the 1980s, his various assignments included leading the USAF's Advanced Composite Materials and Structural Development activities, as well as leadership roles in the structures, manufacturing systems, and initial certification concepts for advanced composite structures for F-15, F-16, B-1 and B-2 applications. Professor Halpin was also a technical advisor to the FAA in formulating the FAA certification concepts for composite airframes pioneered in the1979 Lear Fan project. In recent years, he has served as advisor to several USAF and DOD program offices, and as a consultant for US aeronautical industry and the Italian Center for Aeronautical Research, CIRA, in Naples Italy . Dr. Halpin has published more than 80 technical papers in composite materials, airframe structures, structural reliability, and materials processing. He is the author of two books addressing advanced composite materials and structural design, and an editor of the book series Progress in Materials Science, published in 1969 and 1970. His pioneering 1969 book “Primer on Composite Materials” (with Ashton & Petit) introduced laminated composite technology to the combined aircraft structural design and materials engineering communities. The 1969 work of Pagano & Halpin established the conditions for the dimensional stability for parabolic satellite dishes; space structures and printed wiring boards for surface mount digital electronic technology. The Halpin–Tsai, Halpin-Kardos, and Laminate Analogy provided a key element in the technology base for chopper fiber technology. In 1982 Dr. Halpin initiated the Processing Science Initiative for Composite Materials introducing Chemical Engineering Unit Operations and Design for Manufacturing into composite materials engineering (cooperation with J. L. Kardos and J. M. Seferis). Dr. Halpin was a cofounder of the Journal of Composite Materials; he also served as a member of the Journal's executive board for several years and was an Associate Professor at Washington University in Saint Louis.

Dr. Nicholas J. Pagano
Senior Scientist, Air Force Research Laboratory (retired)

Dr. Nicholas Pagano has made pioneering and seminal contributions to the field of composite materials for over thirty years. He was the first to recognize the importance of interlaminar phenomena in high performance composite materials. His discovery of the “stacking sequence phenomenon,” wherein the sign of the maximum interlaminar normal stress is stacking sequence dependent, led to new practices to reduce the potential for delamination of high-performance composite laminates. He formulated models to describe these phenomena with both closed-form and numerical approaches. In a second area of contribution, he developed analytical models for bending of laminated plates that have served as the reference for all following work in the mechanics of laminated plates. His solutions for laminated plates are viewed with the same respect as the Reissner formulations in classical plate theory. His third major area of contribution has been the treatment of brittle-matrix composite materials with complex microstructure such as carbon-carbon and ceramic matrix composites. His thermomechanical models incorporate damage and interfacial phenomena. Current programs at AFRL focus on the application of these ideas to polymeric matrix composite failure.

Dr. James M. Whitney
John F. and Leona D. Torley Chair in Composite Materials, University of Dayton

Dr. James Whitney served as research scholar at the Air Force Materials Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for 30 years and joined the faculty of the University of Dayton in 1991. He is an internationally recognized authority in the mechanics of fiber-reinforced composite materials. He has made seminal contributions to the development of laminated plate and shell theory, micromechanics experimental methods, and interlaminar analysis. His publications (many as a single author) number more than 125, including two textbooks in the field. His work has been cited by large numbers of scholars in the field (more than 150 per year). Dr. Whitney made annual contributions to the Delaware Composites Design Encyclopedia for seven years and participated in numerous short courses with CCM. He is the co-founder and first president of the American Society of Composites. He holds Fellow status in ASME, ASTM and ASC. Dr. Whitney was the recipient of the John F. and Leona D. Torley Chair in Composite Materials of the University of Dayton in 2000. He received the ASTM Award of Merit for his work in standardization of test methods for advanced composite materials.

History of the Medal of Excellence in Composite Materials

The Medal of Excellence in Composite Materials, created to honor those who have achieved outstanding leadership in the field of composites, was established in 1984 in conjunction with the Decennial Celebration of the Center for Composite Materials. It recognizes those who have maintained and demonstrated scholarly endeavor, invention, and/or economic enterprise over a sustained period of time.

Charles Parks, internationally recognized Wilmington sculptor, designed the Medal of Excellence. The visages of the four initial Medal of Excellence winners – Dr. Zvi Hashin, Dr. Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Dr. Anthony Kelly, and Dr. Stephen W. Tsai – are depicted in a three-inch diameter, circular bronze casting. The reverse side of the Medal features the recipient's name inscribed in a scroll beneath the seal of the University of Delaware . The striking of the medal in 1984 was supported by generous grants from the DuPont Company, Hercules, Inc., ICI Americas, Inc., and Toray Industries ( America ), Inc.

Distinguished Past Winners of the Medal of Excellence in Composite Materials

1984
Dr. Zvi Hashin, Dr. Tsuyohsi Hayashi,
Dr. Anthony Kelly, Dr. Stephen W. Tsai

1985
Dr. B. Walter Rosen

1986
Dr. Alan M. Lovelace, Mr. George P. Peterson and Gen. Bernard A. Schriever

1987
Dr. Roger Bacon, Dr. Akio Shindo and Mr. William Watt

1988
Dr. Karl M. Prewo

1989
Dr. Richard M. Christensen

1990
Dr. Derek Hull

1991
Dr. Roger R. Naslain

1992
Ms. Stephanie J. Kwolek, Dr. Paul W. Morgan and Dr. Herbert Blades

1993
Dr. Georg Menges

1994
Dr. R. Byron Pipes