{"659465":{"#nid":"659465","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Kardomateas Chosen as the Recipient of the 2022 Spirit of St. Louis Medal ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.asme.org\/\u0022\u003EThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ASME) has honored Georgia Tech aerospace engineering professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/people\/george-kardomateas\u0022\u003EGeorge Kardomateas\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ewith the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.asme.org\/about-asme\/honors-awards\/achievement-awards\/spirit-of-st-louis-medal\u0022\u003ESpirit of St. Louis Medal\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for exemplary work in the progress of aeronautics and astronautics. He is in great company as\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDaniel Guggenheim, Neil A. Armstrong, John E. Northrup, John W. Young\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(AE 1952),\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorge\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;W. Lewis, Charles S. Draper, Robert G. Lowey, Michael Collins\u003C\/strong\u003E, and the late\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDewey Hodges\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;have also received this premier medal. ASME will present Kardomateas with the medal at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/event.asme.org\/IMECE?_gl=1*1jpyz5r*_gcl_dc*R0NMLjE2NTcwNTQ4OTEuNTJiYzY2NTIxZDk0MTliNWMzY2IwNDk2YmIzMGM2Mjk.\u0026amp;_ga=2.141577202.1969033245.1657054890-1972735687.1656445636\u0022\u003EInternational Mechanical Engineering Congress \u0026amp; Exposition\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Columbus, Ohio, October 30-November 3, 2022.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKardomateas has spent over thirty years improving aircrafts from a structural standpoint. More specifically he investigates ways to ensure that aerospace structures retain their structural integrity. He focuses on the special part of mechanics called fracture mechanics, which studies the conditions for the initiation and propagation of cracks and debonds. \u0026ldquo;Fracture mechanics and damage tolerance have been very successful in that, nowadays, airplanes don\u0026rsquo;t usually come down because of structural failure,\u0026rdquo; explained Kardomateas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe credits his lifelong scientific triumphs to his education in the United States and Greece, his collaboration with past and present colleagues at Georgia Tech, and the academic system in America. \u0026ldquo;The environment at Georgia Tech fosters collaboration and innovation. The higher education system provides opportunities through the collegial network in scientific forums where ideas can be exchanged with those inside and outside of your institution.\u0026rdquo; Former AE School professors, including the late\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBob Carlson,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorge Simitses\u003C\/strong\u003E, inspired him as colleagues and also acted as mentors to him.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKardomateas earned a diploma from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece and both his master\u0026rsquo;s and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1989, he joined\u0026nbsp;the School of Aerospace Engineering\u0026#39;s faculty at the Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;He has authored three books,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAn Introduction to Fatigue in Metals and Composites\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EStructural and Failure Mechanics of Sandwich Composites\u003C\/em\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMechanics of Failure Mechanisms in Structures.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;He is also the editor of six volumes on the topic of failure mechanics of composite and sandwich structures, an associate editor of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EHandbook\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;Damage\u0026nbsp;Mechanics: Nano to Macro Scale for Materials and Structures,\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;as well as the author of about 200 papers published in refereed journals or as parts of books.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his work at Georgia Tech, he has served the discipline in several capacities. The ASME Fellow has operated as an Associate Editor of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Applied Mechanics\u003C\/em\u003E, and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAIAA Journal\u003C\/em\u003E, as a Contributing Editor of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EInternational Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and as a guest editor of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EInternational Journal of Solids and Structures\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures\u003C\/em\u003E. In addition, he has served as the\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Etechnical chair of the 2014 ASME Congress, general chair of the 2015 ASME Congress, and the steering committee chair of the 2017 ASME Congress. He was the elected chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division Composites Committee and the program representative of the Aerospace Division Structures and Materials Committee.\u0026nbsp; Kardomateas has also served in many other panels and committees including as the Chair of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aiaa.org\/guggenheim\/\u0022\u003EDaniel Guggenheim Medal Award Board\u003C\/a\u003E, and on the Organizing Committee of the sixth, seventh, tenth and eleventh\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.manufacturingusa.com\/institutes\/iacmi\u0022\u003EInstitute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rsquo;s International Conferences on Sandwich Structures; he has also served on external evaluation committees for many academic programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, the medal winner is working on his next book that focuses on the fracture and fatigue of metallic and composite aerospace structures, which will include his latest research advances in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"American Society of Mechanical Engineers Honors AE Professor for Meritorious Service in the Advancement of Aeronautics and Astronautics"}],"uid":"34736","created_gmt":"2022-07-18 19:22:37","changed_gmt":"2022-08-16 20:33:41","author":"Kelsey Gulledge","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"1325","name":"aerospace"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"171693","name":"Spirit of St. Louis Medal"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"186870","name":"go-imat"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMonique Waddell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["monique.waddell@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}