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BRIEF DESCRIPTION: last updated on Nov 12, 2014
Professor T. Kundu received his bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1979. His MS and PhD were from the Department of Mechanics and Structures at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1980 and 1983, respectively. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics of the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor in August 1983 and was promoted to full professor in 1994.
Dr. Kundu has made significant and original contributions in both basic and applied research in nondestructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM) by ultrasonic and electromagnetic techniques. His fundamental research interests are in the analysis of elastic and electromagnetic wave propagation in multi-layered solids, fracture mechanics, biomechanics and computational mechanics. Application areas of his research findings include civil and structural materials, aerospace materials, geomaterials, electronic and biological materials. He has published 7 books (2 text books and 5 research monographs), 15 book chapters and 294 technical papers, 145 of these papers have been published in refereed scientific journals. As of November 12, 2014, according to Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zKRoHmwAAAAJ&hl=en) his publications have been cited 3663 times with an h-index of 32 ( i.e. at least 32 of his publications have been cited 32 times or more). He has also edited 20 conference proceedings. He has supervised 34 PhD students (9 jointly and 3 in foreign universities) and 22 MS students (2 jointly). Currently he is supervising 3 MS and 3 PhD students (1 jointly in a foreign university). He is a Fellow of ASA (Acoustical Society of America), ASNT (American Society of Nondestructive Testing), ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) and SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics ), and a life member of AvHAA (Alexander von Humboldt Association of America ). He is the Chairman of the SPIE yearly conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems (held in March of every year). He has served as the Chairman of the ASME NDE Engineering Division from 2003 to 2005. He has been serving as the Associate Editor (AE) of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America since 2012 and of the Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal since 2008. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Civil Engineering and Science (http://www.academicpub.org/jces/), since 2012. From 2006 to 2012 he served as the AE of the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, and from 2001 to 2006 he served on the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Geomechanics. He has been serving as the advisory editor of Structural Longevity journal since 2009. He has extensive collaborations with international and US scientists. He has spent 28 months in the Department of Biology, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, first as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and then as a Humboldt Research Prize winner. He has also spent between one month and two years in each of the following institutes as an Invited Professor
• Department of Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology , Gothenburg , Sweden • Acoustic Microscopy Center, Semienov Institute of Chemical Physics , Russian Academy of Science , Moscow • Department of Civil Engineering, EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne ), Switzerland • Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Technology of Compiegne , France • Materials Laboratory, University of Bordeaux , France • Electrical Engineering Department (SATIE Lab.), Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), Cachan , France • Aarhus University Medical School , Aarhus , Denmark • Department of Applied Physics, University of Leipzig , Germany • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo , Japan • Technical University of Valencia (UPV), Spain • KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology), Daejeon, South Korea • Nondestructive Evaluation branch of the Wright-Patterson Material Laboratory , Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Dayton , Ohio .
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RESEARCH INTEREST
Dr. Kundu has made significant and original contributions in both basic and applied research in structural health monitoring (SHM) and nondestructive testing techniques (NDT) for material characterization by ultrasonic and elctromagnetic (THz radiation) techniques, acoustic microscopy, elastic wave propagation in multilayered solids, fracture mechanics, computational mechanics, and numerical modeling. Application areas of his research findings include aerospace materials, civil and structural materials, geomaterials, electronic as well as biological materials. His research has received international acclaim. He has won the Humboldt research prize (also known as the Senior Scientist Award) from Germany. He has been involved in both experimental and theoretical research. He has developed a new mesh-free semi-analytical/numerical technique called distributed point source method (DPSM) in collaboration with his French colleagues. This technique has been found to be superior to the finite element method (FEM) for solving many ultrasonic, electrostatic and electro-magnetic problems. He has co-authored the first book on DPSM.
Dr. Kundu has collaborated with European scientists on theoretical and experimental research on engineering and biological materials. Most of his European collaborations have been funded by foreign funding agencies in Germany (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), Belgium (NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization), France (French Ministry of Education), Denmark (Aarhus University Medical School ), Spain, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland. Among domestic sources, the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Research Laboratory have provided the lion share of his research funding. Because of his work on biological cell characterization he received the prestigious Humboldt Research Prize from Germany, also known as the Senior Scientist Award.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor Kundu has taught a variety of courses on mechanics and numerical methods. These include undergraduate courses on Statics, Dynamics, Strength of Material, Numerical Analysis with MATLAB, Structural Analysis, and Finite Element Method. At the graduate level he has taught courses on Continuum Mechanics, Elasticity, Plasticity, Advanced Finite Element Analysis, Fracture Mechanics and Elastic Wave Propagation in Solids. He has developed the last three graduate courses at the University of Arizona and thoroughly revised the first three. He has authored a textbook on fracture mechanics that also includes elasticity theory in its first chapter, co-authored a textbook on Introductory Finite Element Method and edited a book on Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation that can be used as a textbook for a graduate level course on elastic waves. He has supervised 21 MS students (2 jointly), 31 PhD students (8 jointly and 3 in Foreign Institutes), and 7 post-doctoral research scholars. He is currently supervising 2 MS and 4 PhD (1 jointly) students. In 1999 his MS student (Y.C. Jung) received the best MS thesis award at the University of Arizona . Only one MS thesis was selected for this award in 1999 among all fields of science, engineering and humanities. In three consecutive years 2000, 2001 and 2002 his PhD student C. M. Dao received the Bill Gates Millennium scholarship and was selected for the Outstanding Graduate Student of the CEEM (Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics) Department in 2007. His PhD students Samik Das and Ehsan Kabiri Rahani also received the Outstanding Graduate Student of the CEEM Department award in 2008 and 2011, respectively. In 2009 he received the outstanding faculty award for his teaching chosen by the undergraduate students of the CEEM department. In the year 2000 Dr. Kundu received a Letter of Commendation from the Graduate College of the University of Arizona for his contributions in graduate teaching, research and mentoring activities. In May 2002 he received a special recognition as the Outstanding Honors Faculty , awarded by the University of Arizona and the Honors College for his ‘outstanding and dedicated service in guiding undergraduate students of the Honors College '. His former graduate students are now faculty members in USA (University of South Carolina, California State University at Northridge, North Carolina State University and State University of New York at Buffalo), and abroad - South Korea, India, Brazil, Qatar and Turkey.
CURRICULUM VITAE
TRIBIKRAM KUNDU, Professor (Engineering Faculty Fellow Professor) Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics University of Arizona , Tucson , Arizona 85721 Home: (520)297-2962, Office: (520)621-6573, Fax: (520)621-2550 tkundu@email.Arizona.edu
PERSONAL DATA: Citizen of U.S.A., Married, Two Children
EDUCATION:
1979 B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, I.I.T. Kharagpur , India Ranked first among all graduating engineers (about 300) of all majors.
1980 M.S. Solid Mechanics, UCLA, USA , GPA - 4.0/4.0 Thesis: Diffraction of Elastic Waves by a Surface Crack in a Plate. Ranked first among all MS candidates in engineering.
1983 PhD Solid Mechanics, UCLA, USA, GPA - 4.0/4.0 Dissertation: Elastic Wave Propagation in Multilayered Solids Graduate Advisor: Professor A. K. Mal
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Humboldt Research Prize from Germany - also known as the Senior Scientist Award - 2003
NDE Lifetime Achievement Award 2012 from SPIE (the International Society for Optics and Photonics)
Research Award for Sustained Excellence 2015 from ASNT (The American Society for Nondestructive Testing) in recognition of his outstanding and sustained contributions in NDE/NDT
Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year Award 2008 (chosen by the SHM community & SHM Journal)
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellowship from Germany , Sept.1, 1989 - Aug.31, 1990. & July 1, 1996 - March 31, 1997.
Engineering Faculty Fellow of the University of Arizona - In 2012 the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona recognized him as the Engineering Faculty Fellow that comes with a salary raise, similar to Chair Professorships in some other universities. Selected few faculty members are given this distinguished honor. The College of Engineering of the University of Arizona does not have any Chair Professorship but instead has Engineering Research Faculty Fellow and Teaching Faculty Fellow recognitions.
Elected Fellow of ASA (The Acoustical Society
of America), 2013 Best Paper Award 2004 from SPIE – Received for the paper , "Bio-soft matter imaging and micro-metrology by Phase-sensitive ultrasonic microscopy", by W. Ngwa, W. Grill and T. Kundu presented at the Health Monitoring and Smart Nondestructive Evaluation of Structural and Biological Systems conference at the SPIE's 9 th Annual International Symposium on NDE for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, March 15-17, 2004, San Diego, California, 2004. The award was formally given at the SPIE's 10 th Annual International Symposium on NDE for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, in March 2005.
Best Paper Award 2000 from SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering or SPIE's 5 th International Symposium on Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring of Aging Infrastructure, Newport Beach California , March 5-9, 2000. The paper on the near Lamb mode imaging co-authored by Kundu, Potel and de Belleval was selected as the best paper of the four NDE conferences combined. These four conferences are, "Nondestructive Evaluation of Aging Materials and Composites", "Nondestructive Evaluation of Aging Aircraft, Airports, and Aerospace Hardware", "Health Monitoring of the Highway Transportation Infrastructure", and "Utility and Pipeline Systems and Components". The award was formally given at the SPIE's 6 th Annual International Symposium on NDE for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, in March 2001.
Best Student Paper Award 2001 from ASME - Na, W. B., and T. Kundu, "Underwater Pipe Inspection using Guided Waves", presented at the ASME Symposium on NDE Challenges of the 21 st Century, Theory and Practice in IMECE 2001 Conference, New York, Nov.11-16, 2001 was selected as the best paper among all papers where leading author is a graduate student.
Elected ASCE Fellow , August 2000.
Elected ASME Fellow , April 1999.
Certificate of Appreciation from ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping (PVP) Division in ‘Deep Appreciation for His Valued Service in Advancing the Engineering Profession', presented at the Honors and Awards Luncheon of PVP Conference in Toronto, Canada, July 18, 2012
Outstanding Faculty Award for undergraduate teaching in the department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, chosen by the undergraduate students, 2009
Invited Professorship from a number of European Universities (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenberg, Sweden, 1989; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996; University of Technology of Compiegne, France, 1997; University of Bordeaux, France, 1997; Ecole Normale Superior (ENS), Cachan, France, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010; University of Leipzig, Germany, 2003; University of Tokyo, Japan, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Technical University of Valencia or UPV, Spain 2012, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology or KAIST, South Korea, 2013).
Plenary and Keynote talks in a number of conferences and workshops
Outstanding Honors Faculty, May 2002, awarded by the University of Arizona and the Honors College for outstanding and dedicated service in guiding undergraduate students of the Honors College.
Outstanding Asian Faculty Member of the Year, Oct.1995, awarded by the Asian Faculty, Staff and Alumni Association of the University of Arizona for overall contributions of an individual in teaching, research and service.
President of India Gold Medal for ranking first among all graduating engineers (~300) from all disciplines in I.I.T. Kharagpur, 1979.
Hortense Fishbaugh Memorial Scholarship from U.C.L.A., academic year 1982-83. Ten graduate students from all disciplines of U.C.L.A. are awarded this scholarship every year based on their academic achievements.
Outstanding Master Student Award from U.C.L.A. Engineering Alumni Association, March 1981, for ranking first among all Master students who graduated from the Engineering College of U.C.L.A. in 1980.
Regents' Fellowship from the University of California , academic years '79-80 and '80-81. UCLA , USA .
Jagadish Bose National Science Talent Search Scholarship , July '74 to June '79. Calcutta , India . Eight high school graduates from a total of one million are selected for this award every year.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
Since Aug 1994: Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, Director of NDE Laboratory, Tucson , Arizona .
Aug 1989 - July 1994: Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona , Tucson , Arizona .
Aug 1983 - July 1989: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona , Tucson , Arizona .
Jan 1983 - July 1983: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Mechanics and Structures, University of California , Los Angeles , California .
INVITED/VISITING POSITIONS:
June 1989 - Aug 1989 Invited Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Division of Mechanics, Gothenberg , Sweden .
Sept 1989 - Aug 1990 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Biology Department, University of Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main , Germany .
Summer of '92 & '94 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Wright-Patterson Material Laboratory, Non Destructive Evaluation Branch Air Force Base, Dayton , Ohio .
Aug'94, May, June '95 Invited Scientist, Russian Academy of Science , Moscow .
May & June 1996 Invited Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology , Lausanne ), Switzerland .
July 1996 - Feb. 1997 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Biology Department, University of Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main , Germany .
May 16 - June 15, 1997 Invited Professor, Materials Laboratory, University of Bordeaux , France .
June 16 - August 15, 97 Invited Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Technology of Compiegne, France.
June 1 - July 31, 1999 Invited Professor, LESIR Laboratory, Electrical Engr. Dept., ENS Cachan , France .
August 1 - 15, 1999 Invited Scientist, Medical School of Aarhus University , Denmark .
June 1 - July 31, 2000 Invited Professor, LESIR Laboratory, Electrical Engr. Dept., ENS Cachan , France .
August 1 - 15, 2000 Invited Scientist, Medical School of Aarhus University , Denmark .
June 1 - July 31, 2001 Invited Professor, LESIR Laboratory, Electrical Engr. Dept., ENS Cachan , France .
August 1 - 18, 2001 Invited Scientist, Medical School of Aarhus University , Denmark .
June 1 - July 31, 2002 Invited Professor, LESIR Laboratory, Electrical Engr. Dept., ENS Cachan , France .
June 1 - 30, 2003 Invited Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Leipzig , Germany .
July 1 - Dec 31, 2003 Invited US Senior Scientist as the winner of the Humboldt Research Prize, Biology Department, University of Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main , Germany .
June 1 - 30, 2004 Invited Professor, SATIE Laboratory, Electrical Engr. Dept., ENS Cachan , France .
July 1 - 31, 2004 Invited US Senior Scientist, Biology Dept., Univ. Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany .
May 1 - 31, 2005 Invited Professor, SATIE Laboratory, Electrical Engr. Dept., ENS Cachan, France .
June 1 – July 31, 2005 Summer Faculty at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton , Ohio
June and August, 2006 Summer Faculty at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton , Ohio
July 1 - 31, 2006 Invited Professor, SATIE Laboratory, Electrical Engr. Dept., ENS Cachan , France
July 2007 Visiting Faculty at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio
June 1 - 30, 2008 Invited Professor, SATIE Laboratory, Electrical Engr. Dept., ENS Cachan, France
July 2008 Visiting Faculty at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton , Ohio
June, 2009 Invited Professor, SATIE Laboratory, Electrical Engr. Dept., ENS Cachan , France
July, 2009 Invited Professor, Materials Laboratory, University of Bordeaux, France.
June, 2010 Invited Professor, SATIE Laboratory, Electrical Engr. Dept., ENS Cachan , France
July-Sept, 2010 Invited by the Humboldt Foundation of Germany to carry out collaborative research at the University of Leipzig and University of Applied Science, Frankfurt, Germany as the Senior US Scientist.
Oct 2010-Jan 2011 Invited Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
June and July, 2011 Invited Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
May 15- Aug 12, 2012 Invited Professor, Technical University of Valencia (UPV), Spain
Dec 17, 2012 – Feb 16, 2013 Invited Professor, University of Tokyo and Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
April 17 – Aug 16, 2013 Invited Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), South Korea
June 1 – July 13, 2014 Invited Professor, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
July 14 – Aug 17, 2014 Invited Professor, Centre for Mechanics
of Machines; Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery; Polish Academy of
Sciences, Gdansk, Poland
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Journal of Civil Engineering and Science, http://www.academicpub.org/jces/EditorialBoard.aspx, Jan 2012 to Present
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, July 2012 to Present Ultrasonics, October 2014 to Present Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal, May 2008 - present. ASME Journal of Pressure Vessels Technology, Jan 2006 - 2012.
JOURNAL ADVISORY BOARD/ADVISORY EDITOR/EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER:
Advisory Editor of Structural Longevity Journal, 2009 - present. Advisory Board Member of the International Journal of Geomechanics, 2001-2006. Advisory Board Member of the International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 1998-2001 Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, July 2012 to Jan 2014 Editorial Board Member of Positioning ( http://www.scirp.org/journal/pos ), 2010 to Present
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Dr. Kundu was one of the four organizers of the Second International Conference on Constitutive Laws for Engineering Materials that was held in Tucson in January 1987.
Organized the First Symposium on Acousto-Optics and Acoustic Microscopy in 1992 ASME Winter Annual Meeting in Anaheim California.
Organized A Second Symposium on Acoustic Microscopy for Material Characterization in 1998 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Anaheim California.
Organized a symposium on the Recent Advances of the Ultrasonic NDE and Composite Material Characterization in the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Nashville, Tennessee, Nov.14-19, 1999.
Dr. Kundu co-organized a symposium on NDE entitled Nondestructive Evaluation and Characterization of Engineering Materials for Reliability and Durability Predictions, in the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Orlando, Florida, Nov.5-10, 2000.
March 2000, Vice-Chairman of the SPIE (the International Society for Optical Engineering) conference on NDE of Aging Airplanes and Aircraft Structures, Newport Beach, California.
January 2001, Co-chairman of the 10th International Conference of IACMAG (International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics), Tucson, Arizona, January 7-12, 2001
March 4-8, 2001, Chairman of the SPIE conference on the Advanced NDE for Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Materials (ND01), SPIE's 6th Annual International Symposium, in Newport Beach, California. As the chairman he doubled the number of conference participants in comparison to the previous year.
April 23-25, 2001, Co-Chairman of the 7th ASME NDE Topical Conference in San Antonio Texas
December 27-30, 2001, Chairman of the Scientific/Technical Committee of the Second International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Kharagpur IIT, India
March 17-21, 2002, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Smart NDE for Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California .
July 10-12, 2002, and July 7-9, 2005 International Scientific Committee member of the First and Second European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, at ENS Cachan, France.
Dr. Kundu served as the Program representative of the ASME NDE Division in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 for the IMEC&E (Int. Mech. Engineering Congress and Exposition). As the program representative he initiated the participation of the NDE Division at IMEC&E.
In 2002 IMEC&E he served as the M&S (Materials and Structures) group representative. As the group representative he is in charge of allocating sessions to the Materials Division, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division and NDE Division.
March 2-6, 2003, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Smart NDE and Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California
March 14-18, 2004, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring and Smart NDE of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California
One of two Co-organizers from the US side (the other co-organizer was Prof. M. P. Singh of Virginia Tech.) for the Joint US-India Workshop on Advanced Sensing Systems and Smart Structures Technologies, in cooperation with IIT Bombay, on December 20-22, 2004. This workshop was jointly funded by the NSF and IIT Bombay. Organizing Committee Co-Chairman of the 3nd International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics (ICTACEM 2004) in Kharagpur, India, Dec. 28-30, 2004
March 6-10, 2005, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring and Smart NDE of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California
2003 - 2005, Chairman of the NDE Engineering Division of ASME. NDE is one of 37 Technical Divisions of ASME.
February 26 - March 2, 2006, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring and Smart NDE of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California
March 18-20, 2007, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California
March 10-13, 2008, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California
March 8-12, 2008, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California
March 9-12, 2009 , Chairman of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego , California
March 7-11, 2010, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California
March 6-10, 2011, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California
March 11-15, 2012, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California
March 10-14, 2013, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California
March 9-13, 2014, Chairman of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems, San Diego, California
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