Manson-Coffin IGF medal

The “Manson-Coffin IGF medal” is awarded to outstanding academics in recognition of their seminal contribution to the formalisation, implementation, and validation of novel theories and methodologies specifically devised to model fatigue related phenomena.

The medal has been awarded for the first time in 2019, i.e., one hundred years after the birth of S. S. Manson and one hundred and two years after the birth of L. F. Coffin. These two researchers have played a pivotal role in our understanding of damage under time-variable loading by independently proposing to use cyclic elasto-plastic strains to assess lifetime in the low/medium-cycle fatigue regime.