Penulis: Arunachalam M. Rajendran

Dr. Rajendran obtained his master’s degree from the IIT Kanpur and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA in 1981. Arunachalam M. Rajendran serves as Chair and University Distinguished Professor for the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS. Prior to joining the University of Mississippi, Dr. Rajendran served the U.S. Army Research Office as Chief Scientist for the Engineering Sciences Directorate. Dr Rajendran primarily works on failure of materials under shock and impact. He has published more than 150 articles, and edited 10 books, and chaired more than 50 international conferences and symposiums. He has given invited/keynote talks at more than 100 universities and symposiums throughout the world. Dr. Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan received his B.E. degree from UVCE, Bangalore, master’s degree in engineering mechanics from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai and Ph.D. from School of Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University, USA, in December 1992. After his Ph.D., he was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. In November 1997, he joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, where currently he works as Senior Professor. His main areas of interest are wave propagation in complex media, computational material science, computational mechanics, smart structures, structural health monitoring, mems, and nano composite structures. He has published a total of 234 international journal papers, 8 graduate level textbooks, 2 undergraduate books, 13 book chapters, and 160 international conference papers. He has given invited/keynote talks at more than 100 universities and symposiums worldwide. Stephen Bless is a world-renowned shock physicist, who has made significant contribution in understanding propagation of shock waves in structures and materials. He got his Sc.D. degree (Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1970), S.M. degree (Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1968), and B.Sc. degree (Physics, 1965) all from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His areas of expertise are impact and shock wave physics, penetration of soils including sand and clay, dynamic behavior of natural and engineering materials under extreme loading, and terminal ballistics. He is currently Research Professor at New York University in the Department of Civil and Environment Engineering. Dr Bless has more than 100 referred publications and 2 patents.