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Dr. Ivatury S. Raju

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NASA Engineering & Safety Center (NESC), Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA

Biography:
Dr. Raju has been working in the fields of fracture and structural mechanics at the Langley Research Center since 1975. In 1994, he was selected as the Branch Head of the Mechanics of Materials Branch in the Materials Division. The branch was engaged in the development of methodologies to characterize, predict, and improve durability and damage tolerance of Metallic and Composite materials. After reorganization in late 1998, he became the Branch Head of the Analytical and Computational Methods Branch in the Structures and Materials Competency (SMC). The branch was engaged in the development of analytical and computational methods to accurately predict the response of aerospace structures to external loads and development of the next generation of accurate analysis methods. In 2002, Dr. Raju assumed the position of Senior Technologist in SMC. During the past 20 years he participated in four failure investigations and he is currently completing one such investigation. Dr. Raju has a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautical Structures and a M.S. in Engineering Administration from the George Washington University. In 2000, Dr. Raju, on a NASA Fellowship, attended Program in Management Development at Harvard University. Dr. Raju serves on editorial boards of International Journals Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences and Computational Mechanics. Dr. Raju is a Fellow of the AIAA.

Selected Publications:
G. V. Rao, I. Raju and T. Murthy, Vibration of rectangular plates with mixed boundary conditions, J. Sound Vib. 30 (2) (1973) 257–260.
G. Venkateswara Rao, V. Sundararamaiah and I.S. Raju, “Finite element analysis of vibrations of initially stressed thin shells of revolution”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 37, No. 1, November 1974, pp. 57-64
Venkateswara Rao, G., Raju, I.S., Radhamohan, S.K., Buckling of Shells by Finite Element Method, Journal of Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE, 
Vol. 100, pp. 1092-1096, 1974.
G. V. Rao, I. S. Raju and K. K. Raju, A finite element formulation for large amplitude flexural vibrations of thin rectangular plates, Comput. Struct. 6 (3) (1976) 163–167.
I. S. Raju, G. V. Rao and K. K. Raju, Effect of longitudinal or inplane deformation and inertia on the large amplitude flexural vibrations of slender beams and thin plates, J. Sound Vib. 49(3) (1976) 415–422.
G. V. Rao, I. S. Raju, and K. K. Raju, “Nonlinear vibrations of beams considering shear deformation and rotary inertia,” AIAA J., vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 685–687, 1976.
K.K. Raju, G.V. Rao, and I.S. Raju, “Effect of geometric nonlinearity on the free flexural vibrations of moderately thick rectangular plates,” Compu. Struct., vol. 9, pp. 441–444, 1978.
Raju, I.S., Crews, J.H.: Interlaminar stress singularities at a straight free edge in composite laminates. Comput. Struct. 
14, 21–28 (1981)

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