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Narinder Kumar Gupta
Born
22 August 1942
(age 83)
, Jammu and Kashmir,
India
Alma mater
,
Known for
,
,
Awards
J.C.Bose Memorial Award,
O.P. Bhasin Award,
Research Award,
by the
,
Mercator Professorship,
supported by
.
Scientific career
Fields
,
,
Institutions
,
,
,
Professor B. Karunes
Narinder Kumar Gupta
is a research scientist, educator, and engineer. Born
22 August 1942 in
, Jammu and Kashmir,
, he is a professor of
at the
.
Gupta works in the
area of
of
and
at low, medium and high
rates of loading. His research stimulates the development of
of materials, understanding of the basic mechanics of large
deformation, design for
of road and air
, design for
safety in defence applications and in design of
processes.
Education
[
]
Painting on History of
civilization made by Prof. N. K.
Gupta
He received his Bachelor of Science from the
in
1960, his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the
(Now
) in 1966 and his PhD from the
under Prof. B. Karunes in 1972.
[
]
He did his
studies in
under Professor W.
Johnson (1977) and as Alexander von Humboldt fellow at
under Professor Th. J. Lehmann (1981).
Profession
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]
Gupta has been a faculty member in the department of applied mechanics at the
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
since 1971 and has been a full
professor since 1987 and retired in 2005. He continued as
Chair
Emeritus Professor from 2005 to 2010, and then as emeritus professor till
2011.
He was invited as Mercator Guest Professor at
, supported by
the
for 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.
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Activity fields
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Gupta works in the area of
of
and
at low,
medium and high rates of loading. His research finds application in
development of
of materials, understanding of the basic
mechanics of large deformation, design for
of road and air
, design for safety in defence applications and in design of
processes.
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
) in peer-
reviewed national and international journals and conference proceedings, edited
eight books,
mentored nearly 40 PhD and 75
students, 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
in
, Australia,
, 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.
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.
Gupta delivered the "K S Krishnan memorial lecture" during the annual meeting of the INSA
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 the
of the
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
(1981–1985), the
International Journal of Impact Engineering
, the
International Journal of Crashworthiness
(1996–2007), the
Latin
American Journal of Solids and Structures, Thin Walled Structures, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials &
Structures
(2006–2011), the
Journal of Aeronautics Society of India
,
Proceedings of the Indian National Science
Academy
,
Sadhana
,
Defence Science Journal
and
Everyman'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 the
and
chairman of the National Committee of the academy for
(International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)
and
(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 the
,
the
,
the
,
the
, the
, India and The World Academy of Sciences
(
).
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,
and the recent was held in Republic of Korea in
2019.
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.
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Honours
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Receiving Padam Shri Award
from President of India ( Shri
R. Venkataraman)
Gupta was conferred
by 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,
the O. P. Bhasin
Award,
the Millennium Plaques of Honour (ISCA) Award,
the Erskine (New
Zealand) Award, the
(Germany) Research Award and several
other honours and awards. He has been conferred
by the
and Mercator Professorship of
and DRDO Academy excellence
award.
Gupta is Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy,
Indian National Academy
of Engineering,
National Academy of Sciences, India
and the Third World
Academy of Sciences.
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 the
International Journal
of Impact Engineering
,
Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy
and
Defence Science Journal
were devoted
to his birthdays. These issues received contributions from highly regarded international scientists. A special issue
to honour his contributions has been published by the
International Journal of Impact Engineering
, in 2017.
Gupta has been named as one of five Honorary Members
- 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
[
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Gupta and his wife Rashmi Gupta, have two sons, Shivanshu and Shalav.
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Selected publications
[
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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
, Volume
72
, 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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