The Czech Society for Mechanics decided to institute a prize named
Z.P. Bazant Prize for Engineering Mechanics
The Prize is given annually and includes a monetary award of 1200 USD. The charter of the prize is attached.
Dr. Zdenek P. Bazant, McCormick Institute Professor at Northwestern University, Evanston, member of NAS, NAE and AAAS, and a famous alumnus of CTU in Prague.
Statutes of the Z.P. Bažant Prize for Engineering
- 1. The Z.P. Bažant Prize for Engineering Mechanics is awarded annually by the Czech Society for Mechanics (CSM).
- 2. Competition runs for one single prize accompanied by a financial reward 1200 USD. The prize is awarded for an article or a series of articles on an original topic, a book, a monograph, or a PhD thesis, written in Czech or English. To assess the impact, a work published several years before the submission is optimal.
- 3. The submitted work is required to report original findings in mechanics, results of interdisciplinary research, or results that make or promise progress in engineering practice. Both theoretical and experimental studies are eligible, especially their combination. Excluded are formalistic generalizations, refinements or embellishments without evident contribution to mechanics per se.
- 4. The candidate, nominated by a learned colleague or by a domestic or foreign institution, must either be a Czech living anywhere or a foreigner living in the Czech Republic at the time of work inception. There is no age restriction. The candidate must declare all the previous awards that he or she might have received for the submitted work. Based on their nature, the Selection Committee may or may not disqualify the candidate.
- 5. The Selection Committee is proposed by the CSM Board and appointed by the CSM President.
Proposals are to be sent to
Czech Society for Mechanics,Dolejskova 5, 182 00 Prague 8,
the Czech Republic
phone: +420 266 053 045, e-mail: csm@it.cas.cz, web: www.csm.cz
Deadline: December 31 of the current year.
Results of the competition
The Czech Society for Mechanics institutes annually a prize named
Z.P. Bažant Prize for Engineering in 2016
The Czech Society on Mechanics awarded the Prize of Professor Z. P. Bazant to Ing. Jiří Náprstek, DrSc.
Dr. Jiří Náprstek was born on September 24th, 1944 in Prague. By profession he is a civil engineer, educated at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. He obtained his Doctor of Sciences degree, DrSc, in 1997.
Dr. Jiří Náprstek is an active member of many editorial boards, a frequent reviewer of contributions sent to many journals. He is an author, and sometimes a co-author, of hundreds of contributions published in journals and at occasions of seminars, conferences and congresses. Just, during the last ten years he published 21 contributions in impact journals. He was, and still is, a leader of numerous local and international grant projects.
Dr. Jiří Náprstek is a leading personality in the field of rational mechanics, especially in areas devoted to non-linear, stochastic and computational mechanics. The results of his research substantially enriched the procedures for efficient analysis and critical estimation of reliability and stability of structures in civil engineering.
His long-time theoretical research is mainly focused on investigation of local and global dynamic stability, bifurcation and post-critical phenomena in structures characterized by non-holonomic constraints. A special attention is also devoted to numerical methods and to their efficient implementations on supercomputers.
His theoretical conclusions substantially contributed to the elaboration of efficient practical methods suitable for estimation of reliability of structures subjected to external dynamical effects.
For more details see: csm.it.cas.cz.
Z.P. Bažant Prize for Engineering in 2015
The Z.P. Bažant Prize for Engineering Mechanics is awarded annually by the Czech Society for Mechanics (CSM).
Competition runs for one single prize accompanied by a financial reward 1200 USD. The prize is awarded for an article or a series of articles on an original topic, a book, a monograph, or a PhD thesis, written in Czech or English.
In 2015 the Selection committee, proposed by CSM Board and appointed by the CSM President, decided to award the prize to Professor Petr Krysl from the University of California University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093, for his contribution to the development of finite element theory and technology, namely to the subject of meshless methods where he developed original adaptive techniques and algorithms for parallel methods applicable to efficient solution of non-linear dynamic tasks.
Professor Petr Krysl is author or co-author of 84 papers published in reviewed journals. His publications are frequently cited. Among others, there are 3069 citations in Web of Science and 6313 citations in Google Scholar data base.
I would appreciate very much if you could publish the info about the prize in your journal
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For more details see:
www.csm.cz/en/z-p-bazant-prize-for-engineering-mechanics/.
For 2014 the Prize was awarded to Professor Vladimir Zeman
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For 2013 the Prize was awarded to Professor Anna Machová for her contribution to molecular dynamics, for her original and extensive publication activities and last but not least for her unrelenting effort dedicated to training of a new generation of graduate and postgraduate students.
For 2012 the prize was awarded to Professor Miroslav Balda for his contribution to the rotor dynamics theory, for his theoretical and experimental assessment of flexible support effects to critical speeds of shafts. His conclusions are fundamental for diagnosis and maintenance of large scale turbomachines.
For 2011 the prize was awarded to Professor Aleš Tondl for his contribution to the theory of rotor dynamics, nonlinear mechanics and for his latest results in study of autoparametric systems.
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Entry form
Entry form for the “Z.P. Bazant Prize for engineering mechanics” competition - DOC