K.R. Rajagopal
Forsyth Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Physics Building, Room 230A
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3123

Email: krajagopal@mengr.tamu.edu
Phone: 979.862.4552
Fax: 979.845.3081

Departmental Website


WORK EXPERIENCE

• Forsyth Chair and Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, January 1996-present

• James T. MacLeod Professor of Engineering and Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, September 1990-December 1996
• Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1982-December 1996
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C, September 1980-May 1982

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. "A thermodynamic frame-work for rate type materials," In Press, J. non-Newt. Fluid Mechanics, 88, 207-228, (with AR.. Srinivasa) (2000) .
2. "Phenomenological modeling of polymer crystalization using the notion of multiple natural configurations," Interfaces and Free Boundaries, 2, 73-94 (with I.J. Rao) (2000)
3. "Secondary flows due to axial shearing of a third grade fluid between two eccentrically placed cylinders," Int'l J. Engineering Sci. 37, 411-429 (1999)
4. "On the existence and uniqueness of multipolar fluids of grade three and their stability,"
Int'l J. of Engineering Sci. 37, 75-96 (with H. Bellout and J. Necas) (1999)
5. "Mechanics of electroactive elastomers," Acta Mechanica 135, 219-228 (with A.S.
Wineman) (1999)
6. "A Phenomenological Model of Twinning Based on Dual Reference Structures," Acta materialia 46, 1235-1248 (with A.R. Srinivasa and R.W. Armstrong) (1998)
7. "The flow of blood in tubes-theory and experiment," Mechanics Research Communication, 25, 257-262 (1998).
8. "Mechanics of Inelastic behavior of materials: Part I," Int'l J. Plasticity, 14, 945-968 (with A.R. Srinivasa) (1998)

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Biomechanics

• Nonlinear Fluid Mechanics

• Nonlinear Elasticity

• Mixtures

• Continuum Thermodynamics

• Traffic flow dynamics

EDUCATION

• Mechanical Engineering, Honors: First Class, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India, B. Tech (1973)

• M.S., Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois (1974)

• Ph.D., Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1978)

• Post-doc, Macromolecular Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1980)