R Narasimhan

Biography

Ramarathnam Narasimhan obtained the BTech (Mechanical Engineering) (1982) from IIT Madras, MS and PhD (1986) in Applied Mechanics both from the California Institute of Technology. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech (1987). His doctoral and postdoctoral work, carried out under the supervision of AJ Rosakis, focused on crack initiation and growth in elastic-plastic solids. In particular, he studied for the first time three-dimensional effects on elastic-plastic crack tip fields and observed that such effects are dominant at a distance of half the specimen thickness from the crack front. After returning to India in 1987, he worked for four years at IIT, Mumbai before joining Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore where he is now Professor, Mechanical Engineering.

Research Interest

Fracture Mechanics, Computational Solid Mechanics