The IASSAR Research Prizes are given in recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to the following areas:
Computational Stochastic Mechanics
Stochastic Dynamics
System Reliability and Optimization
Stochastic Fatigue, Fracture and Damage Analysis
System Identification
In each of those five areas Senior and Junior Prizes are awarded. Eligibility for Junior prizes, requires that the nominee is forty years old or younger and should not turn 41 in the year the award is presented.
Special awards are given for outstanding contributions to other important areas not encompassed above, such as Reliability Education, Transfer of Reliability Methods to the Engineering Practice, etc. Special Awards are also given to honor individuals who have made outstanding and sustained contributions in the field of Stochastic Mechanics and Structural Reliability generally over periods representing portions of their professional careers.
Eligibility: all recipients shall be either members of IASSAR and/or contributors to past ICOSSARs (International Conferences of Structural Safety and Reliability).
Frequency: the research prizes shall not be given more frequently than once every four years.
Special Awards, however, although generally given during ICOSSARs can also be conferred at other occasions.
Nominations: the IASSAR Awards Committee appointed by the Executive Board, solicits nominations. Nominators may nominate no more than one individual for each of the prizes or awards. Self nominations are not accepted. Nominators are invited to submit a one-page maximum combined nominating statement/vita in support of the nominee. All members of IASSAR and those regularly contributing to the ICOSSARs are eligible to submit nominations.
Members of the Awards Committee for ICOSSAR '09:
T. Moan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (Chair)
L. Esteva, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
H. Furuta, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan (Ex-Officio)
R.E. Melchers, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
R. Sexsmith, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
M. Shinozuka, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
N. Shiraishi, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
PAST IASSAR RESEARCH PRIZES AND AWARDS
| YEAR | SENIOR RESEARCH PRIZE | JUNIOR RESEARCH PRIZE (less or equal than 40 years of age) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Special Award | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1993 | Grigoriu (USA) | Lin (USA) | Ang (USA) | Bolotin (Russia) | Hoshiya (Japan) | Kozin* (USA) | Takada (Japan) | Bucher (Austria) | Breitung (Germany) | Spencer (USA) | Ghanem (USA) |
| 1997 | Wedig (Germany) | Spanos (USA) | Wen (USA) | Itagaki (Japan) | Natke (Germany) | Deodatis (USA) | Zhang (USA) | x | Tanaka (Japan) | Yoshida (Japan) | |
| 2000 | Shinozuka** (USA) | ||||||||||
| 2001 | Bergman (USA) | Soize (France) | Frangopol (USA) | x | Loh (ROC) | Ishikawa*** (Japan) | Dyke (USA) | Vasta (Italy) | Zerva (USA) | Rahman (USA) | Katafygiotis (China) |
| 2005 | Beck (USA) | Di Paola (Italy) | Corotis (USA) | Sobczyk (Poland) | Sato (Japan) | Lin (USA) | Au (Singapore) | Schenk (Austria) | x | Graham-Brady (USA) | Johnson (USA) |
| MARK | MEANING | LEGEND | FIELD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * | Postumous for Advancement of System Identification | 1 | Computational Stochastic Mechanics | ||
| ** | For Life Accomplishment | 2 | Stochastic Dynamics | ||
| *** | For Reliability Education | 3 | System Reliability and Optimization | ||
| x | Award not conferred during this year | 4 | Stochastic Fatigue, Fracture and Damage | ||
| 5 | System Identification (SI) | ||||