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Narinder Kumar Gupta
Born(1942-08-22)22 August 1942(age 81)
Mirpur,Jammu and Kashmir, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology Delhi,National Institute of Technology, Srinagar
Known forApplied mechanics,
Plasticity,
Impact (mechanics)
AwardsJ.C.Bose Memorial Award,

O.P. Bhasin Award,
Alexander von HumboldtResearch Award,
Doctor Honoris Causaby theRussian Academy of Sciences,
Mercator Professorship, supported byDFG.

Padma Shri
Scientific career
FieldsSolid mechanics,plasticity,Impact (mechanics)
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Technology Delhi,

University of Cambridge,
Ruhr University Bochum,

RWTH Aachen University
Doctoral advisorProfessor B. Karunes

Narinder Kumar Guptais a research scientist, educator, and engineer. Born 22 August 1942 inMirpur,Jammu and Kashmir,India,is Professor ofMechanicsat theIndian Institute of Technology in Delhi.[1]Gupta works in the area oflarge deformationsofmetalsandcompositesat low, medium and high rates of loading. His research stimulates the development ofconstitutive behaviourof materials, understanding of the basic mechanics of large deformation, design forcrashworthinessof road and airvehicles,design for safety in defence applications and in design ofmetal formingprocesses.

Education[edit]

Painting on History of civilization made by Prof. N. K. Gupta

He received his Bachelor of Science from theJammu and Kashmir Universityin 1960, his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from theRegional Engineering College, Srinagar(NowNIT Srinagar) in 1966 and his PhD from theIIT Delhiunder Prof. B. Karunes in 1972.[citation needed]

He did hispost-doctoralstudies inCambridge Universityunder Professor W. Johnson (1977) and as Alexander von Humboldt fellow atRuhr University Bochumunder Professor Th. J. Lehmann (1981).[2]

Profession[edit]

Gupta has been a faculty member in the department of applied mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi[3]since 1971 and has been a full professor since 1987 and retired in 2005. He continued asHenry FordChair Emeritus Professor from 2005 to 2010, and then as emeritus professor till 2011. He was invited as Mercator Guest Professor atRWTH Aachen,supported by theGerman Research Foundationfor one year (2011–2012).

Gupta continued to work as "INSA (Indian National Science Academy) Senior Scientist" at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, from 2012 to 2017. He was also associated for a period (2013–14) with the Supercomputer Education and Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Presently, he continues with his academic work as an "INSA Honorary Scientist" since 2017 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.[citation needed]

Activity fields[edit]

Gupta works in the area oflarge deformationsofmetalsandcompositesat low, medium and high rates of loading. His research finds application in development ofconstitutive behaviourof materials, understanding of the basic mechanics of large deformation, design forcrashworthinessof road and airvehicles,design for safety in defence applications and in design ofmetal formingprocesses.

He has been instrumental in setting up the India's first and internationally recognised low and medium velocity impact testing laboratory in the Department of Applied Mechanics at the IIT Delhi and has fostered and nurtured this area in India.

He has published over 350 scientific papers (with over 5000 citations[4]) in peer-reviewed national and international journals and conference proceedings, edited eight books,[5]mentored nearly 40 PhD and 75MTechstudents, and undertaken national and international research and consultancy projects. He has been a visiting professor and fellow and invited to deliver guest lectures in universities inArmenia,Australia,Brazil,China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Trinidad, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and United States.[6]

He was invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the 2008 World Congress of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), held in Adelaide, Australia. The German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, invited him to deliver a lecture at an annual event in 2012 along with the German scientist Prof. M. Kleiner, who was then the President of DFG.[7]Gupta delivered the "K S Krishnan memorial lecture" during the annual meeting of the INSA[8]at Lucknow in 2013. In 2014, he delivered a plenary lecture to the 39th Solid Mechanics Conference held in Poland. He has been invited to deliver national lectures, which include Taylor memorial, Seth memorial, Bhatnagar memorial, Karunes memorial and Joga Rao memorial, and also numerous inaugural, keynote and invited lectures in major conferences and reputed institutions in India.

He has been on theEditorial advisory boardsof theInternational Journal of Mechanical Sciences(1981–1985), theInternational Journal of Impact Engineering,theInternational Journal of Crashworthiness(1996–2007), theLatin American Journal of Solids and Structures, Thin Walled Structures, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures(2006–2011), theJournal of Aeronautics Society of India,Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy,Sadhana,Defence Science JournalandEveryman's Science.He is president of the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, past president of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and past president of the Indian Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was vice-president of theIndian National Science Academyand chairman of the National Committee of the academy forIUTAM(International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) andIMU(International Mathematical Union). He has been member of IUTAM Bureau( 2008–2012) and Congress Committee (2008 - 2018). He is member or chairman of several other national and international academic bodies. He is fellow of theIndian National Science Academy,[9]theIndian National Academy of Engineering,[10]theNational Academy of Sciences, India,[11]theAeronautical Society of India,theInstitution of Engineers,India and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).[12]

Gupta's expertise in the mechanics of large deformation of metals and composites under impact loading has greatly augmented India's advance in technology, in particular, defence and aerospace researches. He helped found IMPLAST, an international event held regularly in India and countries across the world, including Australia (2000), Germany (2007), and the USA (2010). The last IMPLAST held in India was in 2016,[13]and the recent was held in Republic of Korea in 2019.[14]He also initiated a series of Indo-Russian workshops in "Theoretical and Applied Mechanics", held in both India and Russia. Gupta has edited nearly a dozen volumes of IMPLAST and Indo-Russian workshops, which the scientific community has very well received. These events provide a forum for Indian scientists to interact with several known international scientists. Gupta has been a voice of India in international forums in articulating the country's long-term vision on key scientific and technical issues.[citation needed]

Honours[edit]

Receiving Padam Shri Award from President of India ( Shri R. Venkataraman)

Gupta was conferredPadma Shriby the President of India in 1991.

Recipient of J C Bose Award from the Prime Minister of India (Dr. Manmohan Singh)
Receiving Humboldt research award from the president of Humboldt Foundation

Professor Gupta is recipient of J.C. Bose Memorial Award,[15]the O. P. Bhasin Award,[15]the Millennium Plaques of Honour (ISCA) Award,[16]the Erskine (New Zealand) Award, theAlexander von Humboldt(Germany) Research Award and several other honours and awards. He has been conferredDoctor Honoris Causaby theRussian Academy of Sciencesand Mercator Professorship ofDFGand DRDO Academy excellence award.

Gupta is Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy,[8]Indian National Academy of Engineering,[17]National Academy of Sciences, India[18]and the Third World Academy of Sciences.[19]

The esteem that Gupta enjoys nationally and internationally is shown by the fact that conferences to honour his contributions were held on his 60th and 70th birthday in India in 2002 and 2012, On his 65th birthday in Bochum, Germany, in 2007, and was honoured on 70th in Singapore in 2012. Special issues of theInternational Journal of Impact Engineering,[20]Proceedings of the Indian National Science AcademyandDefence Science Journalwere devoted to his birthdays. These issues received contributions from highly regarded international scientists. A special issue to honour his contributions has been published by theInternational Journal of Impact Engineering,in 2017.[20]

Gupta has been named as one of five Honorary Members[21]- honoured as one of the top five world scientists in the area of impact mechanics - by the International Society of Impact Engineering.

In 2019 Prof. Gupta is awarded prestigious "DRDO Academy Excellence Award"

Personal[edit]

Gupta and his wife Rashmi Gupta,have two sons, Shivanshu and Shalav.[citation needed]

Selected publications[edit]

  • N. K. Gupta and S. K. Sinha (1990); "Collapse of a laterally compressed square tube resting on a flat base".International Journal of Solids and Structures,26,601‑615
  • N. K. Gupta and A. Meyers (1992); "Considerations of translated yield surfaces".International Journal of Plasticity,8,729‑740
  • N. K. Gupta and V. Madhu (1997); "An Experimental Study of normal and oblique impact of a hard core projectile on single and layered plates".International Journal of Impact Engineering,27,901 – 918
  • N. K. Gupta, (2002) "IMPLAST symposia and large deformations – a perspective",International Journal of Impact Engineering,27,901 – 918
  • O. T. Bruhns, N. K. Gupta, A. Meyers and H. Xiao (2003), "Bending of an elastoplastic strip with isotropic and kinematic hardening".Archive of Applied Mechanics,Volume72,pages 759–778, 2003
  • N. K. Gupta and Nagesh, (2006) "Collapse mode transitions of thin tubes with wall thickness, end condition and shape eccentricity",International Journal of Mechanical Sciences,48,210–223
  • N. K. Gupta, M. A. Iqbal and G. S. Sekhon (2007), "Effect of projectile nose shape, impact velocity, and target thickness on the deformation behaviour of thin aluminium targets",International Journal of Solids and Structures,44,3411–343
  • N. K. Gupta, N. Mohamed Sheriff and R. Velmurugan, (2007) "Experimental and numerical investigations into collapse behavior of thin spherical shells under drop hammer impact",International Journal of Solids and Structures,44,3136–3155
  • M. Klaus, H. _G. Reimerdes and N. K. Gupta (2012), "Experimental and Numerical investigations of residual strength after impact of sandwich panels",International Journal of Impact Engineering,44,50–58
Distinguished mechanical engineering educator award being given by the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi

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  2. ^"INSA:: Indian Fellow Detail".www.insaindia.res.in.Archived fromthe originalon 6 February 2020.Retrieved3 July2019.
  3. ^Faculty website, Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi
    -N. K. Gupta IIT web site
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  5. ^N. K. Gupta (editor) (2003)IMPLAST' 03, Plasticity and Impact Mechanics,Phoenix Publishing House, New Delhi, India
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  12. ^"Members by surname — TWAS Portal".Archived fromthe originalon 1 November 2010.Retrieved25 February2011.
  13. ^"IMPLAST 2016".implast2016.iitd.ac.in.Retrieved4 July2019.
  14. ^"IMPLAST 2019".www.implast2019.info.Archived fromthe originalon 30 December 2019.Retrieved4 July2019.
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  16. ^"NISCAIR Blog".NISCAIR.Archived fromthe originalon 4 March 2016.
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