Guruswami (Ravi) Ravichandran

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John E. Goode, Jr., Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

B.E., University of Madras (Regional Engineering College), 1981; Sc.M. (Solid Mechanics and Structures), Brown University, 1983; Sc.M. (Applied Mathematics), 1984; Ph.D., 1987; D.h.c., Paul Verlaine University. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 1990-95; Associate Professor, 1995-99; Professor, 1999-2005; Goode Professor, 2005-; Booth Leadership Chair, 2015-21; Associate Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, 2008-09; Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, 2009-15; Division Chair, 2015-21.

Research Overview

Professor Ravichandran's research focuses on deformation and failure of materials, dynamic behavior, wave propagation, micro/nano mechanics, composites, active materials, biomaterials and cell mechanics, and experimental mechanics.

Research Summary: Deformation and failure of materials, dynamic behavior, wave propagation, micro/nano mechanics, composites, active materials, biomaterials and cell mechanics, experimental mechanics

Condensed Matter Physics Inspires a New Model of Cellular Behavior

Professor Ravichandran To Give 2018 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture

Professor Ravichandran Elected to Academia Europaea

President of French Space Agency Delivers Klein Lecture

Mechanics of Materials Across Nano to Geological Time and Length Scales

Innovation in Aerospace

New EAS Division Chair Announced

Dr. Rittel Recognized by Academy of Sciences of Turin

Professor Ravichandran Receives Werner Köster Prize