Prof. Raghu Vasu Prakash
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Dr. Raghu V. Prakash, currently Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras specializes in the areas of fatigue, fracture of materials (metals, composites, hybrids), structural integrity assessment, remaining life prediction of critical components used in Transportation, Energy sectors, apart from new product design. He has more than twenty five years of professional experience in the field of fatigue and fracture and has more than 100 Journal, Book Chapter publications and 100 Conference publications; he has edited 3 book volumes. During his tenure as Technical Director at BiSS Research, Bangalore, he has developed test systems for use in academia, R&D and industry; he teaches courses relating to Fracture Mechanics, Design with Advanced Materials, Product Design, DFMA at IIT Madras.
Dr. Prakash is a voting rights member of ASTM International (Technical Committees, D-30, E-08 and E-28) and has won several prestigious awards (Binani Gold Medal, Indian Institute of Metals), scholarships and Erasmus-Mundus Fellowships. He is the recipient of Distinguished Fellow of ICCES 2015 and Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Structural Longevity. He is currently the Vice-Chair of the Materials Processing Technical Committee of Materials Division of ASME.
Dr. Prakash received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras in First Class with Distinction. He obtained his Master’s degree (by Research) and Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is an Executive Committee member of several technical societies (Indian Structural Integrity Society, Society for Failure Analysis, Indian Institute of Metals to name a few).