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He has made significant contributions to the advancement of Digital Photoelasticity. This has resulted in a Monograph on Digital Photoelasticity - Advanced Techniques and Applications (2000), Springer, a chapter on Photoelasticity in the Springer Handbook of Experimental Solid Mechanics (2009) and a chapter on Digital Photoelasticity in the book on Digital Optical Measurement Techniques and Applications (2015), Artech House London. He has over 170 publications to date of which two have been reproduced in the Milestone Series of SPIE. His research has been funded by organizations such as ARDB, ISRO, DST, and NSF. He received the Zandman award for the year 2012, the only Indian to receive it since its inception in 1989, instituted by the Society for Experimental Mechanics, USA for his outstanding research contributions in applications utilizing photoelastic coatings.He has pioneered a new paradigm in Engineering Education by writing innovative e-Books on Engineering Fracture Mechanics and Experimental Stress Analysis published by IIT Madras. These books are first of their kind in the world and can be truly called as e -Teachers. He has co-authored a book on Mechanical Sciences, Narosa Publishing House, India and has contributed a chapter on Experimental Stress Analysis – An Overview, in the book on Optical Methods for Solid Mechanics, Wiley-VCH Verlag. He has also given Video lectures of 40 hrs. each on Experimental Stress Analysis and Engineering Fracture Mechanics as part of the National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), India. He has also developed innovative tools for teaching various courses that include software such as PSCOPETM and analysis package for processing photoelastic data such as DigiTFPTM. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering since 2006. Other recognitions and awards include: Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing from Elsevier for the journal OLEN (2013), Distinguished Alumnus Award of NIT, Trichy (2008), Outstanding Young Individual of Kanpur award instituted by the Kanpur Industrial Junior Chamber (1993), President of India Cash Prize (1984). Member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journals: Strain (since 2001), Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design (2009-10), Optics and Lasers in Engineering, and Steering committee member of Asian Society for Experimental Mechanics since its inception in 2000.
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