People

Arun R. Srinivasa

Holdredge/Paul Professor

Associate Department Head of Undergraduate Programs

Dr. Srinivasa’s research interests include plasticity of metals and polymers, thermomechanics of dissipative processes, dislocation dynamics, Cosserat continua, design and dynamics of compliant mechanisms, computational modeling of defects, and fracture and fatigue processes.

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley – 1991
B. Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras – 1986

Awards

2021 ASME Student chapter, Texas A&M University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Best Teacher Award.
2019 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Worchester Reed Warner Medal for outstanding contribution to the permanent literature of engineering
2019 Mechanical Engineering Program, Texas A&M Qatar, Faculty of the year.
2018 American Society of Engineering Education, Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award for outstanding Contributions to Mechanics Education
2017 Society of Engineering Science (SES), Fellow
2016 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellow
2015 Association of Former Students College Distinguished Teaching Award.
2014 Holdredge/Paul Professorship: The only professorship for distinction in pedagogy and teaching in the Mechanical Engineering Department
2013 Association of Former Students University Distinguished Teaching Award. One of the highest awards for teaching at TAMU.
2012 Benjamin Dasher best paper award, Frontiers in Engineering Education Conference.
2011 William Keeler Faculty Fellowship, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University.
2011 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University.
2010 Halliburton Professorship, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University
2005 British Petroleum (BP) Award for Teaching Excellence, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University.
2003 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University.
1990 UC Berkeley Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
1986-1989 The Berkeley Fellowship
1986 The Banco Foundation Gold Medal
1984 The Raghavendra Memorial Prize

Collaborators

JN Reddy

The current research of Dr. Reddy and his group deals with 7- and 12-parameter shell theories and non-local and non-classical mechanics theories using the ideas of Eringen, Mindlin, Koiter, and others. Dr. Reddy and Dr. Srinivasa have conceived a transformative non-parametric network based methodology (called GraFEA) to study damage and fracture in elastic and viscoelastic solids, including composite structures.

KR Rajagopal

Dr. Rajagopal’s research interests include continuum mechanics and its applications to non-linear materials. Dr. Rajagopal and Dr. Srinivasa have collaborated on numerous research works, including a 2011 work that demonstrated how the Gibbs potential can be used as a basis for developing thermodynamically-consistent, rate-type viscoelastic fluid models.

Prakash Thamburaja

Dr. Thamburaja’s research interest include fatigue and damage mechanisms in metals; he and Dr. Srinivasa have collaborated on a novel smooth transition plasticity model combined with a novel damage parameter for fatigue failure modeling and prediction.