Narinder Kumar Gupta
Department of Applied Mechanics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Narinder Kumar Gupta obtained his BE (Mech Eng) from Regional Engineering College, Srinagar (1966) and joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering there. From 1968 to 1971, as a research scholar at IIT Delhi, he worked in the area of large deformation and proposed dynamic solution (based on stress waves) to the so-called quasi-static large deformation problem of necking. He was awarded PhD (1973) under the supervision of B Karunes. Following post-doctoral work at the University of Cambridge with W Johnson (1977) and the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (1981) with Th Lehman, Gupta joined the Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi (1971) as Lecturer, and was promoted to full Professor in 1987. He retired in 2004, and continues there as Henry Ford Chair Emeritus Professor.
Research Interest
Plasticity and Impact Mechanics
