On the Contribution of Professor K.T. Ramesh to Dynamic Behavior in Honor of His 60th Birthday
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On the Contribution of Professor K.T. Ramesh to Dynamic Behavior in Honor of His 60th Birthday L. Lamberson1 · E. Retzlaff2 Accepted: 26 October 2020 © Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc 2020
During Professor K.T. Ramesh’s distinguished career, he has made seminal contributions in wide-ranging scientific topics, yet he is particularly well known for his efforts in the areas of impact physics and the failure of materials under extreme conditions. This special issue of the Journal of the Dynamic Behavior of Materials is meant to celebrate the contributions of Professor Ramesh in these particular fields on occasion of his 60th birthday. It is a collection of articles contributed by those associated with K.T. including prominent colleagues and collaborators, as well as former students and postdoctoral research scholars. This edition is a complement to the symposium held in his honor at the 2019 Mach Annual Technical Conference in Annapolis, Maryland from April 3 to 5, 2019 with fellow co-organizers Professors Shailendra Joshi, Jamie Kimberley and Justin Wilkerson. K.T. Ramesh received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University, India, in 1982. From there, he attended Brown University where he received a ScM in Solid Mechanics in 1985 and a ScM in Applied Mechanics in 1987. In 1988, K.T. received his Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics advised by Professor Rodney Clifton at Brown University. He continued his career as a postdoctoral research scholar in solid mechanics at the University of California, San Diego the following year and then began his faculty career in the Whiting School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has served as the chair of the department from 1999 until 2002. In 2001, K.T. founded the university’s Center for Advanced Metallic and Ceramic Systems and directed it until 2012. In 2011, Professor Ramesh was named the Alonzo G. Decker, Jr., Professor of Science and Engineering. The following year, the Army awarded a large grant to establish the Center for Materials in Extreme Dynamic * L. Lamberson [email protected] 1
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA
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Environments within the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), a massive effort spear headed and directed by Professor Ramesh. HEMI’s research focuses on impact and failure of materials under extreme conditions, with specific interest in protective materials, massive failure of brittle solids, impact processes in planetary science, and impact biomechanics; thus illustrating the highly interdisciplinary nature of K.T.’s work. In tangent with these prestigious accomplishments, it is no surprise Professor Ramesh also has a multitude of complementary accolades, scientific contributions and history of service. He previously served as a regional director of the American Academy of Mechanics and on the governing board of the Society of Engineering Science (SES) and was a past president of SES. Professo
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