Professor Huseyin Sehitoglu has been elected to be a Fellow of ASM International (formerly the American Society for Metals).
The honor of Fellow represents recognition of his distinguished contributions in the field of materials science and engineering. This honor will be conferred at the Convocation of Fellows to be held during the ASM Awards Dinner on October 29, 2013, in Montreal , Canada.
Written by Bill Bowman
Professor Huseyin Sehitoglu has been elected to be a Fellow of ASM International (formerly the American Society for Metals).
The honor of Fellow represents recognition of his distinguished contributions in the field of materials science and engineering. This honor will be conferred at the Convocation of Fellows to be held during the ASM Awards Dinner on October 29, 2013, in Montreal , Canada.
"For distinguished contributions in the area of plasticity and thermal fatigue of structural materials," is how his citation reads.
The John, Alice, and Sarah Nyquist Endowed Chair, Professor Sehitoglu originally joined the Illinois faculty in 1983. His research is in the area of mechanics of materials. He is considered the foremost researcher in thermomechanical fatigue having edited publications from international symposia and prepared the well-known American Society of Metals handbook chapter on the topic. Recently, he focused on shape memory alloys and stress-induced phase transformations with modeling of twinning and slip. He is the keynote speaker in many of the conferences on these topics. Currently, he is in charge of several projects supported by the National Science Foundation, US Air Force, DOE, and Honeywell related to deformation, shape memory and fatigue in metals. He is also the Director of the Fracture Control Program (FCP). The FCP works cooperatively with industrial partners to develop models for fatigue and fracture.
Professor Sehitoglu received his Ph.D. and M.S. in theoretical and applied mechanics from Illinois after receiving a B.Sc. degree (1st Class Honors) in mechanical engineering from the City University in London.