Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given to an individual(s) whose paper, presented at a Hypervelocity Impact Symposium and published in the proceedings, is ranked best. The criteria for selection includes:

Originality
Difficulty of research
Importance of research
Excellence of the written paper

Candidates for the award are nominated by Chairpersons preceding over upcoming Symposium technical sessions. Nominations are typically made at the manuscript review meeting held approximately four months prior to the Symposium. The nominations are presented to the Awards Committee who rank for final selection. The Society President is then notified for concurrence.

The recipient(s) for the Best Paper Award is announced at the upcoming Symposium. The award consists of a plaque and a monetary remuneration.

Best Paper Award Recipients

1989: D. L. Orphal and R. R. Franzen, Penetration Mechanics and Performance of Continuous and Segmented Rods Against Confined Glass and Ceramic Targets A. J. Piekutowski, A Simple Model for the Formation of Debris Clouds
1992: C. E. Anderson, Jr., D. L. Littlefield, and J. D. Walker, Long-Rod Penetration, Target Resistance, and Hypervelocity Impact D. A. Crawford and P. H. Schultz, The Production and Evolution of Impact Generated Magnetic Fields
1994: D. A. Crawford, M. B. Boslough, T. G. Trucano, and A. C. Robinson, The Impact of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter
1996: D. E. Grady and M. E. Kipp, Fragmentation Properties of Metals
1998: M. D. Furnish, L. C. Chhabildas, and W. D. Reinhart, Time-Resolved Particle Velocity Measurements at Impact Velocities of 10 km/s
2000: J. M. Dahl and P. H. Schultz, Measurement of Stress Wave Asymmetrics in Hypervelocity Projectile Impact Experiments
2003: T. J. Vogler, T. F. Thornhill, W. D. Reinhart, L. C. Chhabildas, D. E. Grady, L. T. Wilson, O. A. Hurricane, and A. Sunwoo, Fragmentation of Materials in Expanding Tube Experiments
2005: R. A. Clegg, D. M. White, W. Riedel, and W. Harwick, RCS-Based Ballistic Limit Curves for Non-Spherical Projectiles Impacting Dual-Wall Spacecraft Systems
2007: C. S. Alexander, L. C. Chhabildas, W. D. Reinhart, and D. W. Templeton, Changes to the Shock Response of Fused Quartz Due to Glass Modification
2010: G. A. Shvestsov, A. D. Matrosov, S. V. Fedorov, A. V. Babkin, and S. V. Ladov, Effect of External Magnetic Fields on Shaped-Charge Operation
2012: W.C. Uhlig and C.R. Hummer, In-flight Conductivity and Temperature Measurements of Hypervelocity Projectiles J.D. Walker, S. Chocron, D.D. Durda, D.J. Grosch, N. Movshovitz, D.C. Richardson, and E. Asphaug, Scale-Size Effect in Momentum Enhancement
2015: David A. Crawford, Computational Modeling of Electrostatic Charge and Fields Produced by Hypervelocity Impact
2017: Erkai Watson, Mark Gulde, Stefan Hiermaier, Fragment Tracking in Hypervelocity Impact Experiments