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SESA/SEM Active Members
Abroad
e society has its International Congress every four years during which a large group of foreign
researchers participate. Besides this general group, there are foreign groups and individuals that
regularly attend SEM meetings and participate actively in the Society’s organization and other
tasks. e following people have made very important contributions to the Society.
Janice Barton. Professor of Experimental Mechanics, Engineering, and the Environment at
the University of Southampton. Professor Barton is very well known for her outstanding research
in thermography/thermoelastic stress analysis areas. She was awarded SEM Fellow status in
2016.
Igor Emri. From 1996, Igor has been the Professor and Head of the Department of the Uni-
versity Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia. He is known worldwide for
his contributions to: mechanics of time-dependent materials and both linear and nonlinear vis-
coelasticity; effect of temperature, pressure, and humidity on mechanical properties of polymers
and composites; fatigue and fracture mechanics of polymers and composites; general and poly-
mer rheology; polymer processing, composite manufacturing, and processing; new experimental
methods; dynamic and static analysis of materials and structures; adaptronics; multifunctional
and intelligent materials; biopolymers; biomechanics; medical engineering; mechanics of dissi-
pative systems; and environmental engineering. Igor is another of the foreign active participants
of the Society activities. He has an education connection with the U.S. having earned his Ph.D.
at the California Institute of Technology from the Department of Aeronautics and Applied Me-
chanics, his thesis advisor being Wolfgang Knauss. e Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materi-
als Technical Division (MTDM) of the Society for Experimental Mechanics was established in
1993 under the initiative of Knauss and Emri, as a response to the needs of the aviation and au-
tomotive industry for a better understanding of time-dependent structural behavior of polymers
and their composites at extreme thermo-mechanical loading. Dr. Knauss and Dr. Emri were the
first chair and co-chair of the newly established Technical Division. e news was announced
in the January/February 1993 issue of the Experimental Techniques. Since then, MTDM is one
of the most active SEM Technical Divisions and Igor one of the more active participants and
organizers of symposia and other activities of this Technical Division.
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Igor was Vice President 1998–1999, President 1999, member of the Executive Board
1955–1997, 1996 Section of the Year Award, and 2009 Fellow.
Jose Freire. Professor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro School of Engi-
neering and Chairman of the Photomechanics Laboratory. Jose is part of the group of consistent
members of SEM that always shows up at meeting and that serve SEM in different capacities,
i.e., as a member of the Executive Board of the Society, Chairman of Editorial Council of the
Society for Experimental Mechanics (2005–2007), Secretary, Vice Chairman and Chairman of
Optical Methods Division of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (1992–2001), and Pres-
ident of the Society 2004–2005. He is also connected to the U.S. Education System having
received his Ph.D. from Iowa University in 1979. He received the Zandman Award 1998, Fel-
low Award, SEM, 2011, and Tatnall Award, SEM, 2013.
Emmanuel Gdoutos. Professor Director of the Laboratory of Applied Mechanics, Director
of the Section of Design and Construction of Structures Department of Civil Engineering,
Democritus University of race, Greece. It takes many pages to outline all the contributions
Emmanuel has given to the fields of solids mechanics, fracture mechanics, and experimental
mechanics in Europe and the U.S., and all the recognition that he has received for these contri-
butions. Emmanuel is one of the individuals that has consistently attended SEA/SEM meetings
and participated actively in the Society’s governance and service.
President, 2013–2014, Vice President, 2011–2012, Member of the Honors Committee,
2005–2008, Member of the Fellows Committee, 2006–2008, Chairman of the Fellows Com-
mittee, 2007–2008, Member at Large of the Executive Board, 2006–2008, and Member of the
Editorial Board of Experimental Mechanics. Awards of the Society: Fellow Award, 2009 eo-
caris Award, Lazan, 2010 Tatnall Award, and 2011 Zandman Award.
Michael Grediac. Professor Grediac is from the Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Institute Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand University. His research interests include the use of full-
field measurement techniques in experimental solid mechanics. He is a very active member of
SEM and has received from SEM the following awards: 2010 eocaris, 2011 Hetenyi, and
2015 Lazan. He is currently an associate editor of Experimental Mechanics.
Francois Hild. Professor Hild is from LMT, ENS Paris-Saclay/CNRS/University, Paris-
Saclay, France. A steady attendant of SEM, Francois is world renowned for his seminal work in
digital image correlation, and its methodology and applications. He received the SEM Lazan
Award in 2014.
Luciano Lamberti. Associate Professor of the Politecnico di Bari Diapartimento di Mecca-
nica, Matematica E Management. He is a close collaborator of mine and we have published
many papers together in the topics of optical techniques applied to solid mechanics, papers that
have been presented in the SEM annual meetings since the earlier 2000s and have resulted in
many journal papers. He is a world-renowned authority in structural optimization where he is
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editor and co-editor of journals in this discipline. Besides his work in experimental mechan-
ics and optimization techniques, he has done seminal work in material’s constitutive equations
mathematically representing the results of experimental observations done with optical tech-
niques, atomic force microscope, and micro-indentation procedures. He has applied these de-
velopments to characterize the mechanical properties of biomaterials. He has published more
than 200 papers and has more than 1200 citations of his work. Since the earlier 2000s he has
attended the Society annual meetings, and has been a very active member of the Optic Division
becoming Secretary, Vice President, and President and organizing many of the Optical Division
meetings and editing the corresponding Society Proceedings. He is also a Technical Editor of
Experimental Techniques.
Yoshiharu Morimoto. Professor Emeritus at the Wakayama University. He is very well known
for his numerous contributions to the field of Moiré technologies. He was a member of the
Executive Board in 2008 and became a SEM Fellow in 2010.
Eddie O’Brien. A graduate of the University of Sheffield, Eddie retired from Airbus and is
a leader in the Aircraft design field. Currently an Independent Consultant of aircraft struc-
tures. President 2003–2004, and a Fellow 2012. He received the Zandman, Brewer, and Tatnall
Awards in 1992, 2008, and 2011, respectively.
Carmine Pappalettere. Professor Pappalettere is from the Department of Mechanical Engi-
neering, Department of Mechanics, Mathematics, and Management, Politecnico di Bari. For
many years, Professor Pappalettere was an active member of SEM and an author or co-author
of more than 400 of papers in different areas of Experimental Mechanics with 1,755 citations.
Members of his research group include Katia Casavola, Claudia Barile, and G. Pappalettera,
all of whom are also frequent participants at SEM conferences. He received the SEM Fellow
Award in 2011.
Fabrice Pierron. Professor Pierron is a Professor of Solid Mechanics within the Engineer-
ing and the Environment Department at the University of Southampton. His research interest
lies in the general areas of the mechanics of deformable solids and failure of engineering sys-
tems. Understanding, modeling, and testing this behavior is therefore of primary importance to
many engineering areas such as transportation, health (biomechanics), infrastructure, and mi-
croelectronics. His research deals with a very wide range of materials–from engineering metals
(including welds) to polymers, composites, wood, foams, concrete, tissues, etc. Fabrice became
an SEM Fellow in 2013. Fabrice is currently Editor-in-Chief of Strain.
Masa Takashi. e late Masa, as we used to call him, was an Engineering Professor at the
University of Tokyo. He was an outstanding experimental mechanician with contributions in
many different areas, particularly in optical methods applied to different topics of mechani-
cal of materials. He presented many of his contributions at the SEM meetings. He was SEM
President, 2007–2008.
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Wei-Chung Wang. Professor National Tsing Hua University Taiwan, Republic of China.
Wei-Chung is one of Asia’s prominent figures in the field of experimental mechanics with em-
phasis in optical techniques, fracture mechanics, and non-destructive evaluation. He also has ties
to the U.S. university system having received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa
State University in 1985. He and his co-workers are active participants in the Society’s activities.
He was President of SEM from 2009–2010, served on the Executive Board, and was Associate
Technical Editor of Experimental Mechanics (2006–2009). He is a Fellow of the Society and
received the Zandman Award and the Tatnall Award in 2015.
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