Faculty Profile

Namas Chandra, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Graduate Studies and Research for the College, received his Ph.D. degree in 1986 from Texas A&M University. His B.S. and M.S. degrees are also in Mechanical Engineering; he also holds a AMIE (equivalent to BS) degree in metallurgy. After his B. S. degree in 1973, he worked in Nuclear Industry for eight years. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1986. During this period, he has published extensively in the area of superplasticity and metal matrix composites, and has edited two books. He has offered several workshops on superplasticity and superplastic forming in U.S. and abroad to scientists and practicing engineers. He received the Developing Scholar Award in 1993, and the Outstanding Service to the Profession Award of the Florida Engineering Society in 1990. His current teaching and research interests are in computational mechanics, materials, superplasticity and composite materials.

• Voleti, S.R., N. Chandra and J.R. Miller, Global-Local Analysis of Large-scale Composite Structures Using Finite Element Methods, Composites & Structures, 58, 3, 453-464, 1996.
• Xie, Z.Y. and N. Chandra, Application of GPS Tensors to Fiber Reinforced Composites", Journal of Composite Materials, 29, 1448-1514, 1995.
• Chandra, N. and C.R. Ananth, Analysis of Interfacial Behavior in MMCs and IMCs Using Thin Slice Push-out TestsÕ, Composite Science and Technology , 54, 1, 87-100, (1995).
• Murali, K. and N. Chandra, Micromechanical Modeling of Superplastic DeformationÕ, Acta Metallurgica et Materialia , 43, 5, 1783-1790, (1995).
• Chandra, N. and Z. Xie, Development of Generalized Plane Strain Tensors for the Concentric Cylinder Inclusion ProblemÕ, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics , 117, 1-5, (1995).