Vikram Deshpande
Vikram Deshpande | |
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 Vikram Deshpande delivering a lecture at the Office of Naval Research in 2018 | |
| Born | 29 February 1972 |
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| Known for | Materials Engineering |
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| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Website | Official website  |
Vikram Sudhir Deshpande (born 29 February 1972),[1] is an Indian-born British engineer and materials scientist, currently Professor of Materials Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Deshpande grew up in Dadar, Mumbai, studied at Bombay Scottish School in Mahim, and gained a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1994.[3] That year, he moved to Cambridge, UK to take an M.Phil. in engineering, initially working on transportation with David Cebon, and earning his Ph.D. in 1998.
Career
[edit]Later, he became interested in materials and mechanics, including small-scale materials, and began a long collaboration with Norman Fleck on micro-architectured materials. After further research in the United States, he returned to Cambridge, became a fellow of Pembroke College in 1999, a lecturer in engineering in 2001, and a professor in 2010.[3] He has been a visiting professor at Brown University and Università Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, on the faculty of University of California at Santa Barbara in the US, University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands.[3][4]
Achievements and awards
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His achievements include the development of "metallic wood", which comprises nickel sheet with wood-like, nanoscale pores that make it as strong as titanium but four to five times lighter.[5][6]
Deshpande has received multiple awards for his work, including the Warner T. Koiter Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2022, William Prager Medal,[7] 2022, the 2021 Gili Agostinelli Prize, the 2020 Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics, the 2018 Sir William Hopkins Prize in Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and the 2003 Philip Leverhulme Prize.[4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020 in recognition of "significant contributions in fields ranging from the design of micro-architectured materials to modelling soft and active materials", "innovations [that] have helped define the modern frontiers of solid mechanics", and research that "has had a major impact in materials engineering".[8] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2023 for "seminal contributions to the mechanics of engineering materials".[9][10] He was elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 "for contributions to mechanics of microarchitected solids with applications to structures under extreme dynamic loading".[11]
Selected publications
[edit]- Deshpande, V; Fleck, N (1 June 2000). "Isotropic constitutive models for metallic foams". Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 48 (6): 1253–1283. Bibcode:2000JMPSo..48.1253D. doi:10.1016/S0022-5096(99)00082-4. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- Deshpande, V.S.; Ashby, M.F.; Fleck, N.A. (April 2001). "Foam topology: bending versus stretching dominated architectures". Acta Materialia. 49 (6): 1035–1040. Bibcode:2001AcMat..49.1035D. doi:10.1016/S1359-6454(00)00379-7. ISSN 1359-6454.
- Deshpande, V; Ashby, M; Fleck, N (1 August 2001). "Effective properties of the octet-truss lattice material". Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 49 (8): 1747–1769. Bibcode:2001JMPSo..49.1747D. doi:10.1016/S0022-5096(01)00010-2. S2CID 53347572.
- Fleck, N; Deshpande, V; Ashby, M (30 June 2010). "Micro-architectured materials: past, present and future". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 466 (2121): 2495–2516. Bibcode:2010RSPSA.466.2495F. doi:10.1098/rspa.2010.0215. S2CID 138092878. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
References
[edit]- ^ "IMECE Lectures 2022". The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "Professor Vikram Deshpande FRS". Department of Engineering. University of Cambridge. 12 November 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ a b c Mukherji, Anahita (28 September 2010). "Young Mumbaikar set to be Cambridge professor". Times of India. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ a b "Professor Vikram Deshpande is awarded the 2020 Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics". Department of Engineering. University of Cambridge. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "'Metallic wood' has the strength of titanium and the density of water". Science Daily. 28 January 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ Pikul, J; Özerinç, S; Zhang, R; Braun, P; Deshpande, V; King, W (24 January 2019). "High strength metallic wood from nanostructured nickel inverse opal materials". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 719. Bibcode:2019NatSR...9..719P. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-36901-3. PMC 6345818. PMID 30679615.
- ^ "Prager Medal". Society of Engineering Science. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ "Fellow detail: Vikram Deshpande". The Royal Society. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "Professor Vikram Deshpande FREng FRS". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
- ^ "Royal Academy of Engineering announces new Fellows for 2023". University of Cambridge. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
- ^ "Professor Vikram Deshpande". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 28 December 2023.