About the editors
Professor S Chakraverty has 30 years of experience as a researcher and teacher. Presently he is working in the Department of Mathematics (Applied Mathematics Group), National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha as a Senior (Higher Administrative Grade) Professor. Prior to this, he was with CSIR-Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, India. After completing Graduation from St. Columba's College (Ranchi University), his career started from the University of Roorkee (now, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee) and did MSc (Mathematics) and MPhil (Computer Applications) from there securing the first positions in the university. Dr Chakraverty received his PhD from IIT Roorkee in 1993. Thereafter he did his post-doctoral research at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, UK and at the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Canada. He was also a visiting professor at Concordia and McGill universities, Canada, during 1997–1999 and visiting professor of University of Johannesburg, South Africa during 2011–2014. He has authored/edited 24 books, published 392 research papers (till date) in journals and conferences and two books are ongoing. He is in the Editorial Boards of various International Journals, Book Series and Conferences. Professor Chakraverty is the Chief Editor of International Journal of Fuzzy Computation and Modelling (IJFCM), Inderscience Publisher, Switzerland (http://www.inderscience.com/ijfcm), Associate Editor of Computational Methods in Structural Engineering, Frontiers in Built Environment and happens to be the Editorial Board member of Springer Nature Applied Sciences, IGI Research Insights Books, Springer Book Series of Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technologies, Coupled Systems Mechanics (Techno Press), Curved and Layered Structures (De Gruyter), Journal of Composites Science (MDPI), Engineering Research Express (IOP) and Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal. He is also the reviewer of around 50 national and international Journals of repute and he was the President of the Section of Mathematical Sciences (including Statistics) of Indian Science Congress (2015–2016) and was the Vice President Orissa Mathematical Society (2011–2013). Professor Chakraverty is a recipient of prestigious awards viz. Indian National Science Academy (INSA) nomination under International Collaboration/Bilateral Exchange Program (with the Czech Republic), Platinum Jubilee ISCA Lecture Award (2014), CSIR Young Scientist Award (1997), BOYSCAST Fellow. (DST), UCOST Young Scientist Award (2007, 2008), Golden Jubilee Director's (CBRI) Award (2001), INSA International Bilateral Exchange Award ([2010–11 (selected but could not undertake), 2015 (selected)], Roorkee University Gold Medals (1987, 1988) for first positions in MSc and MPhil (Comp. Appl.) etc.
He is in the list of 2% world scientists recently (2020) in Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing category based on an independent study done by Stanford University scientists. His world rank is 1862 out of 215114 researchers throughout the globe.
IOP Publishing Top Cited Paper Award for one of the most cited articles from India, published across the entire IOP Publishing journal portfolio within the past three years (2018 to 2020). It also features in the top 1% of most cited papers in the Materials subject category. This data is from the citations recorded in Web of Science.
He has already guided nineteen (19) PhD students and twelve are ongoing. Professor Chakraverty has undertaken around 16 research projects as Principle Investigator funded by international and national agencies totaling about Rs.1.5 crores. He has hoisted around 8 international students with different international/national fellowships to work in his group as PDF, PhD, visiting researchers for different periods. A good number of international and national Conferences, Workshops, and Training programs have also been organised by him. His present research areas include differential equations (ordinary, partial and fractional), numerical analysis and computational methods, structural dynamics (FGM, Nano) and fluid dynamics, mathematical and uncertainty modeling, soft computing and machine intelligence (artificial neural network, fuzzy, interval and affine computations).
Following are his Google, Scopus, other related and Vidwan (Institute) links:
Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=4EeFYt4AAAAJ&hl=en
Scopus ID: http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?origin=resultslist&authorId=7005011457&zone=
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4857-644X
Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/685949/snehashish-chakraverty/
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/S_Chakraverty
Vidwan (Institute) Link: http://nitrkl.irins.org/profile/62073
My VIDEO Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEsAtWBMIvDTnrPH7Yn82wA/videos?view_as=subscriber
Francesco Tornabene is an Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the School of Engineering, Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento. He was born on 13 January 1978 in Bologna, where he received the high school degree at Liceo Classico San Luigi, in 1997. In 2001 he achieved a National Patent Bologna (Italy) for the Industrial Invention: Friction Clutch for High Performance Vehicles Question BO2001A00442. He received from the University of Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum, an MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering (Curriculum in Structural Mechanics), on 23 July 2003, discussing a thesis entitled: Dynamic Behavior of Cylindrical Shells: Formulation and Solution. In December 2003, he was admitted to the PhD course in Structural Mechanics, at the University of Bologna, reaching the first position in the competitive admission. In 2004, he received from the University of Bologna a Thesis prize in memory of Carlo Felice Jodi; in 2007 he received the PhD degree in Structural Mechanics at the University of Bologna, discussing the Thesis entitled Modeling and Solution of Shell Structures Made of Anisotropic Materials. From 2007 to 2009 he received a research fellowship by the University of Bologna, working on the Unified Formulation of Shell Structures Made of Anisotropic Materials. Numerical Analysis Using the Generalized Differential Quadrature Method and the Finite Element Method. From 2011 to 2012 he became a junior researcher within the research program entitled Advanced Numerical Schemes for Anisotropic Materials; from 2012 to 2018 he was an Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna; from 2018 up to date he has been an Assistant Professor in Structural Mechanics and Lecturer at the University of Salento, Department of Innovation Engineering (Lecce). For a long time his scientific interests have included structural mechanics, solid mechanics, innovative and smart materials, computational mechanics and numerical techniques, damage and fracture mechanics. He is author of more than 260 scientific publications, and collaborates with many national or international researchers and professors all over the world, as visible from his scientific production. He is author of 11 books, see e.g. Meccanica delle Strutture a Guscio in Materiale Composito. Il metodo Generalizzato di Quadratura Differenziale (2012); Mechanics of Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures. The Generalized Differential Quadrature Method and the Strong Formulation Finite Element Method (2014); Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures I. Differential Geometry. Higher-Order Structural Theories (2016); Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures II. Differential and Integral Quadrature. Strong Formulation Finite Element Method (2016), Anisotropic Doubly-Curved Shells. Higher-Order Strong and Weak Formulations for Arbitrarily Shaped Shell Structures (2018), among many. He is member of the Editorial Board for 42 international journals (see, e.g. Journal of Engineering, International Journal of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Composite Structures, Technologies, Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics, Journal of Composites Science, Advanced Materials and Technologies, Heliyon, International Scholarly Research Notices, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, ISRN Mechanical Engineering, Journal of Computational Engineering, Advances in Aircraft and Spacecraft Science, among others). He is also Editor-in-Chief for two international journals: Curved and Layered Structures and Journal of Composites Science; from 2019 he has been Associate Editor for the international journal Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines. In recent years he received different important awards, see e.g. Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics (years 2018, 2019, 2020), Ambassador of Bologna Award for the organization of 21st International Conference on Composite Structures ICCS21, 4–7 September 2018, Bologna, Italy (2019), Member of the European Academy of Sciences (since 2018). He collaborates as a reviewer with more than 240 prestigious international journals in the structural mechanics field. From 2012, his teaching activities have included: dynamics of structures; computational mechanics; plates and shells; theory of structures; structural mechanics or mechanics of solids and structures. He is habilitated as Associate Professor and Full Professor in the area 08/B2 (Mechanics of Solids and Structures) and as Associate Professor in Area 09/A1 (Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering and Naval Architecture).
Assistant Professor at the Department of Innovation Engineering
– University of Salento, Via per Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy
E-mail Address: francesco.tornabene@unisalento.it
Dr Reddy, the O'Donnell Foundation Chair IV Professor in J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A &M University, is a highly-cited researcher, author of a large number of journal papers and 24 books (several with second, third, and fourth editions) on energy principles, variational methods, plates and shells, composite materials, mechanics of solids, and the finite element method (linear and nonlinear) and its applications. Dr Reddy has delivered over 180 plenary, keynote, and invited lectures at international conferences; and taught 116 short courses; he advised 50 postdoctoral fellows and research visitors, and guided and co-guided 120 graduate students (74 PhD and 46 MS students).
In research, Dr Reddy is known worldwide for his significant contributions to the field of applied mechanics through the authorship of widely used textbooks on the linear and nonlinear finite element analysis, variational methods, and composite materials and structures. His pioneering works on the development of shear deformation theories (that bear his name in the literature as the Reddy third-order plate theory and the Reddy layerwise theory) have had a major impact and have led to new research developments and applications. Some of the ideas on shear deformation theories and penalty finite element models of fluid flows have been implemented into commercial finite element computer programs like ABAQUS, NISA, and HyperXtrude.
Dr Reddy is the recipient of numerous professional awards from various professional organizations and societies. Recent significant national and international awards include: member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and foreign member of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Brazilian National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Honorary Member of the European Association of Sciences, and the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea (the European Academy of Sciences and Arts). He also received the John von Neumann Medal from the US Association of Computational Mechanics, the Theodore von Karman Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Stephan P. Timoshenko Medal from American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
