The Charles Massonnet Award
In
1998, the European Convention for Constructional Steelwork created the
"Charles Massonnet Award" to recognize a prominent scientist
who highly contributed to the advancement of scientific and technical
support to constructional steelwork, and who had worked or is working
in a Technical Committee of ECCS as a Full Member or as a Chairman or
a Secretary of one of the mentioned committees. It is presented every
year.
This Award had been named for Professor Charles Massonnet to keep his memory. Indeed, Professor Charles Massonnet was an eminent expert and academic, but also one of the most leading personalities members of ECCS who contributed to the promotion of the use of steel in construction through his work and his tuition in stability, plasticity and strength of materials.
Born on 14 April 1914 in Arlon, in the Belgian Province of Luxembourg, Professor Charles Massonnet was a scientist of national level (professor at the University of Liège, Belgium) as well as of international level (Doctor Honoris Causa at the Technology University of Göteborg, in Sweden, the Federal Polytechnical School of Zürich, in Switzerland, Associate Member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America, Foreign Member of the Polish Academia of Sciences). Professor Charles Massonnet passed by on 4th April 1996.
The Charles Massonnet Award is presented in principle every year by an
ECCS member association.
The members of the board and the official(s) of ECCS will not be eligible
for the award during the time of their office.
The nominated person will be proposed to the executive board by the nomination
committee and will be submitted to the vote at the spring meeting of the
executive board at a simple majority of the members present.
Awards : The Charles Massonnet award consists of a plaque bearing the
name of the recipient, the date, and mention of ECCS.
The Charles Massonnet Award 2010
The
ECCS has a long tradition of giving recognition to high level personalities,
prominent experts who have paved the way of the actual regulations and
codes, being particularly active in the field of research and development
of steel solutions in construction. These experts are usually participating
to the fantastic network of Professors and Academics who have been sitting
on the ECCS Technical Committees for decades and have contributed by their
works and breakthroughs to the development of ideal and safe solutions
with steel.
This year, the personality we wish to honour with the Charles Massonnet Award has been active on ECCS committee 8 (Stability of steel structures) since 1975. He has been also present on CEN, IABSE, SSRC committees. He is Italian, graduated at the Politecnico di Milano in 1963 and dedicated his carreer to the “Strength of Materials”. He developed scientific research mainly on the general theory of elasticity, stability of elastic equilibrium, response to dynamics and elastoplastic vibrations, shell structures, solutions for steel and reinforced structures. In the recent years, he has focused his works on the elastic and elastoplastic stability of compressed simple or composed steel members in the presence of mechanical and geometrical imperfections and damages due to cyclic actions. He is the author of an incredible number of papers and publications.
The laureate of the Charles Massonnet 2010 is Professor Carlo Urbano
The Charles Massonnet Award 2007
This
year the selected candidate more than fulfilled the criteria for the award.
He will always be recognised as 'Mr Fire of Europe', over a period of
twenty years. The 2007 awardee was the leading professor in the development
of the 'Natural Fire Safety Concept', under his leadership the relationship
of the fire load to the risk to a structure and its occupants was researched
and tested. It is due to his work that structures' can now be fire engineered
with a significant benefit to the industry, building owners and users.
Our 2007 awardee also has had a very considerable influence on the development
and production of the Eurocodes and has been the author or co-author of
a large number of publications for Eurocodes 1, 3 and 4. His technical
contribution is without question very much reflecting the persons whose
name is on this award.
As for his involvement with the ECCS, he has been the ECCS President on
three occasions, possibly a record that will never be equalled. He was
the representative of his country on the Executive Board from 1981 to
2006. Chairman of the Promotions Management Board from 1996 to 2003, Chairman
of Technical Committee 5 CAD-Cam from 1993 to 2000, Chairman of Technical
Working Group 3.8 Design Manual to EC1.2 and 3.
During the early 90's he served on the organisation Committee that lead
to the formation of the Technical Management Board and the Promotions
Management Board.
The 2007 Charles Massonnet Award has been presented to a man of many talents
and interests, the irrepressible Prof. Eng. Jean-Baptiste Schleich.
| Scientific contributions | Relevancy for application | Important works |
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Scientific
contributions:
Prof. Eng. Jean-Baptiste Schleich has provided essential contributions
to steel construction as well for normal conditions of use as
for the fire situation. Relevancy
for application:
The previously described development may be directly used by
civil engineers as the corresponding essentials have been included
inside Eurocodes, namely the Fire Part of Eurocode 1, i.e. EN1991-1-2.
That document was voted unanimously by the twenty CEN - National
Standards Associations in July 2002 and is available at CEN since
20.11.2002. Important
works:
For all the following documents Prof. Eng. Jean-Baptiste Schleich either was main author as being Chairman of the corresponding Working Group, either was the author. ECCS - Technical Note N°55; Calculation of the Fire Resistance
of Centrally Loaded Composite Steel-Concrete Columns Exposed to
the Standard Fire, 129 pages, 1988. About twenty CEC Research Projects published as EUR Reports may be added to this list. |
The Charles Massonnet Award 2006
The
2006 Charles Massonnet Award has been made to Professor Manfred Hirt,
from EPFL, Switzerland.
Professor Hirt is member of the following ECCS Technical Committees: TC
2- Aluminium, TC 6-Fatigue & Fracture, TC 10-Connections. He wrote
more than 130 publications as author or co-author (http://icom.epfl.ch/puoblications/).
Director of the Steel Structures Laboratory (ICOM) of the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Prof. Hirt is known on the
international scene for his expertise in the field of fatigue and fracture
mechanics of steel structures, loads and action on structures, structural
safety and serviceability and steel-concrete composite construction. In
August 2003, he had been elected President of the International Association
for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE). Congratulations!
The Charles Massonnet Award 2005
The
laureate of the Charles Massonnet 2005 was Professor Giulio BALLIO, Rector
of the University of Milano, “Politecnico di Milano”, in Italy.
Professor Ballio has been selected for this Award in recognition of the
quality and importance of the work he has carried out as prominent scientist
and researcher.
Professor Ballio was born in Rome, on 4 March 1940, and graduated in Aeronautical
Engineering at the “Politecnico of Milan”, in 1963. He was Ordinario
of the Science of Construction at Pavia University and, subsequently,
of Construction in Steel at the Politecnico of Milan, where he has also
been responsible, since 1985, for the Material Tests Laboratory.
Professor Ballio occupied various positions at national level as well
as at international level. He participated to various ECCS Technical Committees
and in the Editorial Board involved in drawing up the European Recommendations
for Steel Structures, published in 1978. He is also Member of the Joint
Committee for the Planning and Design of Tall Buildings of IABSE (the
Working Commission II, Steel, Metal and Timber Structures), ESDEP (member
of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Steel Design Education
Program).
The Charles Massonnet Award 2003
We
are pleased to inform you that the jury decided to present the Charles
Massonnet award 2003 to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Sedlacek, the candidate
presented by the German association, DSTV.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Sedlacek, born on 17 November 1938, is a leading
and opinion-forming person in various ECCS technical committees, among
them TC 1, TC 6, TC 10, TC 12, TC 13 and subcommittees.
Moreover, he is one of the most active people in the European steel research
as well as in the European codification field. His various activities
cover a huge range beginning from intelligent design of steel and composite
structures to researching, applying of research results, safety requirements,
teaching and training of students and engineers, promotion and developing
of steel structures and design tools for a better market share.
Prof. Sedlacek is playing an outstanding role in the international development
and establishing of the Eurocodes for steel structures, loading and earthquakes,
which can be also seen in his activities in the ECCS as chairman of TC
1, in the CEN TC 250, and the DASt. He is that personality with international
appearance as well as with engineering sense who thus initiated most positive
effects on the European steel construction development.
The Charles Massonnet Award honours annually a prominent scientist, member
of an ECCS Technical Committees, who contributed eminently to the advancement
of scientific and technical support to constructional steelwork.
Congratulations to Prof. Sedlacek for his well deserved recognition.
The Charles Massonnet Award 2002
Prof.
Patrick J. DOWLING, University of Surrey, UK
Professor Patrick Dowling started his working life as an employee of BCSA
and subsequently worked both in industry and academia. He was extensively
involved with ECCS in plate buckling research and was Chairman of the
CEN EC3 Committee.
Professor Dowling was the “British Steel” Professor at Imperial
College London. He is the author of many books and technical papers on
steel construction. He is a Fellow of BCSA, Chairman of the UK Structural
Steel Design Awards Judging Panel, Chairman of SCI and Vice Chancellor
of the University of Surrey.
The Charles Massonnet Award 2001
The
2001 Charles Massonnet Award was presented to Prof. Federico MAZZOLANI,
Director of the” Institute of Technique of Construction” at
he Engineering Faculty of Naples.
Prof. Mazzolani was born in Milan, in 1938, and is graduated in Civil
Engineering at the University of Naples. Since 1970, Prof. Federico M.
Mazzolani co-operated with the European Convention for Constructional
Steelwork, assuming the responsibility of Committee and Twg Chairman.
His activity has been characterised by the issue of several fundamental
documents, which played a leader role in the development of the European
codification at the level of both national codes and Eurocodes.
Prof. Federico M. Mazzolani is well known for his publications and works
on seism. He is also Chairman of the International Conference on the “Behaviour
of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas” (STESSA).
The Charles Massonnet Award 2000
Scientific
Manager and Deputy General Manager of the French Technical and Industrial
Centre of Steel Construction (CTICM), Professor Jacques BROZZETTI contributed
highly to the development of the European Steel Construction. He had a
long involvement with various research projects including stability problems,
composite construction, fatigue and fire behaviour of steel structures.
As a result he had been involved with many Codes and design guides comprising
writing activities. He worked with the profession to promote the steel
construction on its various aspects.
Professor Jacques Brozzetti is teaching advanced steel and composite structures
at the “Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées”.
The Charles Massonnet Award 1999
Prof.
Jan W.B. STARK, from the University of Delft, in The Netherlands, had
made substantial contributions to the construction industry in general,
and more specifically with regard to steel and composite structures. For
many years, he had been an active member of CEN and served ECCS in various
committees. The Charles Massonnet Award was presented to him to express
our gratitude for his high standard and valuable contribution to the steel
construction industry.
The Charles Massonnet Award 1998
Close collaborator of Professor Charles Massonnet, Professor René MAQUOI, was very honoured in receiving the Charles Massonnet Award in 1998, which recognize his efforts for the development of steel and composite construction. Indeed, Professor Massonnet was his “master” and conducted his first step in the ECCS activities.