Issue 41

Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 41 (2017); International Journal of the Italian Group of Fracture XI Professor Michael F. Ashby (Cambridge University, UK) will receive the 2017 ICF Alan Cottrell Gold Medal Professor Ashby is Emeritus Professor in the Engineering Department at Cambridge University in the U.K and the co- founder and Chairman of Granta Design, Cambridge, UK, a company specializing in Materials Informatics. He has made seminal contributions in the systematic materials selection and to the understanding of deformation in metals and its relationship to fracture mechanisms. His books on material selection are widely used throughout the world. He is the past ICF Honour Lecturer and an Honorary Fellow of ICF. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was made an CBE in 1997. Michael F. Ashby Professor Robert V. Goldstein (A.Yu. Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) will receive the 2017 ICF George R. Irwin Gold Medal Professor Goldstein is well known for his seminal contributions to understanding resonance phenomena accompanying interface crack propagation, for developing conditions of crack deviation in isotropic and orthotropic bodies, and for modeling the processes of formation of ordered crack systems under multiaxial loading. His contributions to qualitative methods of fracture mechanics led to estimates of the stress intensity factors for cracks of complex shapes and also sufficiency conditions for fracture in structural components. He developed a semi-empirical approach to fracture analysis of elastoplastic materials and suggested the similarity criteria for modeling fracture conditions of large-scale structures using results from testing their small-scale models. He has conducted innovative work in mechanics of ice and ice cover fracture under compression. Professor Goldstein has served ICF as Vice-President, Director, Member of Executive Committee and the Nominations Committee. He is Honorary Fellow of ICF (1993) and Emeritus Vice-President (2010). Robert V. Goldstein Professors Richard W. Hertzberg (Lehigh University, USA) and Ashok Saxena (University of Arkansas, USA) are co-recipients of the 2017 ICF Paul C. Paris Gold Medal. Professor Richard Hertzberg is New Jersey Zinc Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Lehigh University’s Materials Science and Engineering Department. His investigations emphasized the fatigue crack propagation (FCP) response in metals, composites, and polymeric solids. These investigations examined microstructural and atomistic variables in metal