- Namas Chandra
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Namas Chandra, Ph.D. 
Born April 16, 1952 Education Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University; M. S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston; AMIE Metallurgy, Institute of Engineers, Calcutta; B.E. Mechanical Engineering, University of Madras. Work Engineering discipline Mechanical Engineering Institution memberships University of Nebraska, Lincoln Significant projects Dr. Namas Chandra (born April 16, 1952) is Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering Mechanics and Associate Dean for Research at College of Engineering in University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He finished his MS from University of Houston in 1983 and PhD from Texas A&M University in 1986. Between 1986 and 2006, he worked as a professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering of Florida State University-Florida A&M University's College of Engineering. In 2005, he won FSU's 'Outstanding Researcher' award.[1]
Chandra's research interests include materials science, mechanics of materials and structures, molecular dynamics, superplasticity, composites, and thermal properties of composites.[1]
He is the director of the Trauma Mechanics Research Initiative and the BioMechanics and Materials Laboratory at UNL. His research concerns the mechanics of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and their effects on brain tissue. Chandra's study of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is primarily for the United States military, a major sponsor of the research initiative.[2]
Chandra is currently advising two PhD students.[1]
Contents
Chapters in Books/Handbooks
- Superplastic Materials and Superplastic Metal Forming, Handbook of Metallurgical Process Design, ed. G. E. Totten, K. Funatani and L. Xie, Mercel Dekker Publications, ISBN 0-8247-4106-4, 46 Pages, 205-250 (2004).[1]
- Hierarchical Modeling of Deformation of Materials from the Atomic to Continuum Scale, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Composite Materials and Structures, ed. Y.W. Kwon, D. H. Allen, R. Talreja, Spring Publications, ISBN 0-8247-4106-4, 48 Pages, 579-624 (2008).[1]
Recent Research Contracts and Grants
- Factors that Facilitate or Inhibit Enrollment of Domestic Engineering PhD Students; A Mixed Methods Study, National Science Foundation, $149,851, PI: N. Chandra, 9/1/2009 to 8/30/2011.[1]
- UNL-Army Center for Trauma Mechanics, Army Research Office, $3,261,250, PI: N. Chandra, 9/1/2008 to 8/31/2010.[1]
- Adaptive heat sinks: alloyed copper/carbon nanofibers, Cooperation Program between Midi-Pyreness and Aquitaine (FRANCE), € 306, 900, co-PI: N. Chandra, 2006 to 2009 for Amelie Veillere.[1]
- Heat sinks with controlled architecture and carbon nanotubes and/or nanofibers, € 657, 550, Research Foundation for aeronautics and space, co-PI: N. Chandra, 2006 to 2009 for Guillaume Lacombe.[1]
- UNL-Advance, National Science Foundation, $3, 181, 000, PI: B. Couture, Co-PI: N. Chandra, M. Holmes, J. McQuillan, D. Mandersheid, 7/01/2008 to 8/31/2013.[1]
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Categories:- Living people
- Mechanical engineers
- University of Nebraska faculty
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- 1952 births
- Florida State University faculty
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