Kumbakonam Rajagopal, PhD

Senior Advisor to the Dean

Contact

979-862-4552
krajagopal@tamu.edu
Office: MEOB 525

Engineering Profile

Education

Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1978
M.S. Illinois Institute of Technology, 1974
B. Tech. Indian Institute of Technology, 1973

Research Interests

Continuum mechanics and its applications to Non-linear materials

Publications

Awards & Honors

Professional Achievement Award Illinois Institute of Technology, 2021
ASME Worcester Reed Warner Medal 2021
Distinguished Professor Regents Professor Forsyth Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Honoris Causa 2019 Honoris Causa, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, 2019
President’s award for Distinguished Visitors Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 2016
Special issues (3 issues), Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids in honor of K. R. Rajagopal’s contributions to the field of Mechanics 2015
TUS President’s Award Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, 2014
Honoris Causa Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi”, Iasi, 2013
Honoris Causa Charles University, Prague, 2013
Special Issue of Mathematical Models and Methods of Applied Sciences On the occasion of K. R. Rajagopal’s 60th Birthday, Volume 21, 1, 2011
Special Issue of Applications of Mathematics Dedicated to K. R. Rajagopal’s 60th Birthday, Volume 56, 1, 2011
Special Issue (4 issues) International Journal of Advances in Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics Dedicated K. R. Rajagopal’s 60th birthday, 3, 2011
Special Issue of The International Journal of Structural Changes in Solids On the Occasion of K. R. Rajagopal’s 60th birthday, 3, 3, 2011
ISI Highly Cited Researcher 2010
Fellow The Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2010
Honoris Causa University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 2010
Memorial Medal Charles University, Prague, 2006
Archie Higdon Award American Society of Engineering Education, 2005
Eringen Medal Society of Engineering Science, 2004

Kumbakonam Rajagopal, PhD

Education

Research Interests

Continuum mechanics and its applications to Non-linear materials

Publications

A note on the linearization of the constitutive relations of non-linear elastic bodies

2018 Bodies described by non-monotonic strain-stress constitutive equations containing a crack subject to anti-plane shear stress

2018 Derivation of the Variants of the Burgers Model Using a Thermodynamic Approach and Appealing to the Concept of Evolving Natural Configurations

2018 Viscoelastic transitions exhibited by modified and unmodified bitumen

2018 A promising approach for modeling biological fibers

Awards & Honors