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Clifton C. Garvin Professor

220 Norris Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540/231-6051
rbatra@vt.edu

http://www.esm.vt.edu/~rbatra/

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Interests:

Multiscale Analysis of Multiphiysics Problems involving Material and Geometric Nonlinearities, Nanomechanics, Dynamic Failure under Shock Loads, Smart Structures, Functionally Graded Materials.

Education:

1972	Ph.D., Mechanics and Materials, The Johns Hopkins University
1969	M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo
1968	B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Punjabi University, India

Honors & Awards:

2009	Plenary Lecture, 15th Int. Congress of Composite Structures, Porto, Portugal
2009	Engineering Science Medal, Society of Engineering Science
2006	D.Sc (Honoris Causa), Thapar University, India
2005	College of Engineering Award for Outreach Excellence
2005	Honorary Professor, Lanzhou University of Technology, China
2004	Alumni Award for Excellence in Research, Virginia Tech
2004	Honorary Professor, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China
2003	Elected Secretary of the American Academy of Mechanics for a 3-year term.
2003	Frank J. Maher Outstanding Faculty Award, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech
2002	Member of Awards Committee of the American Academy of Mechanics for a 5-year term.
2002	Organizer and co-chair of the 14th US Nat'l Congress of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Blacksburg, VA.
2002	Invited to become a member, for a 3-year term, of the National Research Council 8-member Panel on Survivability and Lethality to review the performance of a Directorate of the Army Research Laboratory.
2001	Invited to teach a 6-hour short course on ASBs for researchers at the Eglin Air Force Base.
2000	Lecturer -- Southwest Mechanics Series.
2000	Invited to give the Michael A. Sadowski Mechanics Lecture at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
2000	Eric Reissner Medal from the Int. Soc. of Computat'l Eng'g Sci. for contributions to the Mechanics of Penetration.
1999	Organizer and co-chair of the ASME Mechanics and Materials Meeting, Blacksburg, VA.
1998	Elected Fellow of the Society of Engineering Science.
1997	Invited to teach a part of the one-week long short course on Localization and Fracture Phenomenon in Inelastic Solids organized/coordinated by P. Perzyna at the International Center for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy.
1997	Virginia Tech's College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research.
1996	Invited to become a member, for a 4-year term, of the Nat'l Research Council 8-member Panel on Armors & Armaments to review the performance of Weapons Materials Directorate of the Army Research Lab.
1996	President of the Society of Engineering Science.
1994	Listed in Who's Who in America
1993	Elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.
1992	Elected Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education.
1992	Recipient -- Alexander von Humboldt Award for senior scientists.
1991	Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics.
1990	Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
1988	Jai Krishna Award from the Indian Society of Earthquake Tech. for the paper ``Seismic Response of a Multistory Building Supported on Piles and a Nonlinear Soil'' coauthored with doctoral student, J.U. Khandoker.
1968	Monetary prize and a plaque for securing 1st rank among engineering students in three states in India.

Professional Service:

• Editor (1995-) Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, Sage Publisher
• Editor-in-Chief (2004-) Int. J. of Computational Methods, World-Scientific Publishers
• Member Editorial Board - Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (1996-2002); Computational Mechanics (1994-2004); Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science (2004); Polish Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2002-);
• Member - International Organizing Committee, Thermal Stresses, 2005, Vienna, Austria, May 2005.
• Member- Organizing Committe, International Conference on Computatioanl Methods, Singapore, 2004.
• Member - Scientific Advisory Board, Third MIT Conf. on Solid and Fluid Mechanics, June 2005.
• Member - Organizer, Symp. on Functionally Graded Materials, Int. Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw, August 2004.

Recent Publications:

1. G. J. Nie and R. C. Batra, Stress Analysis and Material Tailoring in Isotropic Linear Thermoelastic Incompressible Functionally Graded Rotating Disks of Variable Thickness, Composite Structures, 92, 720-729, 2010
2. G. J. Nie and R. C. Batra, Material Tailoring and Analysis of Functionally Graded Isotropic and Incompressible Linear Elastic Hollow Cylinders, Composite Structures, 92, 265-274, 2010
3. G. J. Nie and R. C. Batra, Static Deformations of Functionally Graded Polar-Orthotropic Cylinders with Elliptical Inner and Circular Outer Surfaces, Composites Science and Technology, (accepted), 2009
4. S. S. Gupta and R. C. Batra, Elastic Properties and Frequencies of Free Vibrations of Single-layer Graphene Sheets, J. of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, (accepted), 2009
5. B. M. Love and R. C. Batra, Effect of Particulate/Matrix Debonding on the Formation of Adiabatic Shear Bands, Int. J. of Mechanical Sciences, (accepted), 2009

Full listing

CoursesTaught:

ESM 6734	Finite Element Analysis	Spring 2009
ESM 5014	Intro Continuum Mech	Fall 2008
ESM 5734	Intro Finite Elements	Fall 2008
ESM 5994	Research and Thesis	Spring 2008
ESM 6014	Nonlinear Elasticity	Spring 2008
ESM 6734	Finite Element Analysis	Spring 2008
ESM 7994	Research and Dissertation	Spring 2008
ESM 5994	Research and Thesis	Fall 2007
ESM 7994	Research and Dissertation	Fall 2007
ESM 5994	Research and Thesis	Spring 2007
ESM 7994	Research and Dissertation	Spring 2007
ESM 5014	Intro Continuum Mech	Fall 2006
ESM 6734	Finite Element Analysis	Spring 2006
ESM 5734	Intro Finite Elements	Fall 2005
ESM 5014	Intro Continuum Mech	Fall 2004
ESM 4734	Intro Finite Elements	Spring 2004
ESM 5014	Intro Continuum Mech	Fall 2003