Recipients: Marc A. Meyers, Sirirat Traiviratana, V.A. Lubarda, J. David Benson, Eduardo M. Bringa

Quote: “We are deeply honored for receiving this award. We had two goals in writing this paper. First, to pay homage to the pioneers who made the seminal contributions to our understanding of the mechanical behavior of materials in the 75th year of the postulation of dislocations. Second, to present to the materials community a new mechanism for the growth of voids involving shear dislocation loops emanating from the void surface. It is absolutely fascinating to observe this phenomenon in molecular dynamics simulations and to verify that our ideas were correct. This explains how ductile metals fail. We chose JOM because it is the best vehicle to disseminate ideas rapidly and effectively to the materials community.” -- Marc A. Meyers

Paper: “The Role of Dislocations in the Growth of Nanosized Voids in Ductile Failure of Metals”

Marc Meyrs is professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Calif.in LaJolla.

V.A. Lubards is a professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of California at San Diego.

David J. Benson is with the U.S. Army base in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Eduardo M. Bringa is a physicist with the Materials Science Division of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.