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The award has been established in honor of Lynn S. Beedle, an international authority on stability and the development of code criteria for steel and composite structures. He has been a leader and outstanding contributor to the work of the Structural Stability Research Council for a period of more than 50 years, establishing the council as the pre-eminent organization worldwide in the area of structural stability. Through Lynn Beedle’s dedicated work and leadership in the national and international arenas, the structural engineering profession has seen advanced concepts developed into practical engineering tools. He has striven consistently and successfully to advance collaboration between researchers, engineers and code writers worldwide.
Recipients of the Lynn S. Beedle Award must meet the following criteria:
- Long time member of SSRC.
- A worldwide leading stability researcher or designer of structures with significant stability issues.
- A leader in fostering cooperation between professionals worldwide.
- Significant contributions to national and international design code development.
- The SSRC Executive Committee will serve as the award committee. The award may be presented as frequently as annually. An individual can only receive the award once.
The award will be presented at the SSRC
Annual Stability Conference. It consists of a framed certificate,
signed by the SSRC Chairman and Vice Chairman.
2005
Award Winner
Professor William McGuire,
Cornell University
Presented Wednesday, April 6, 2005
The 2005 Beedle Award recipient was Professor William McGuire.
Professor McGuire has served on the faculty at Cornell since
1949 and has also served as visiting professor at the University
of Tokyo in Japan, the University of Liege in France, and
Stathclyde University in Scotland. In addition, he spent
two years at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok,
Thailand, was a visiting lecturer at the University of Canterbury,
New Zealand, and was a senior visiting fellow at the University
of Western Australia. Professor McGuire’s research
has focused on a broad array of problems in structural steel
including progressive collapse, nonlinear torsional-flexural
behavior, and the application of interactive computer graphics
with an emphasis on nonlinear analysis and design of two-and-three
dimensional steel frame structures. His textbook Steel Structures
is a classic reference. In addition, he has done extensive
consulting work including assignments with Cornell University
and the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center on the
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the National Bureau
of Standards on projects related to the U.S. Olympic structure
at Lake Placid, New York. He has also consulted on assignments
in researching various structure collapses in several cities
and joined with the Transportation Research Board of the
National Research Council on the development of load and
resistance factor design specifications for highway bridges.
Past
Beedle Award Winners
| 2002 |
Prof.
T.V Galambos |
University
of Minnesota
- Twin Cities Campus |
| 2004 |
Prof.
Yuhshi Fukumoto |
Fukuyama
University |
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