Vikram Deshpande
Vikram S 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
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
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
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
- 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
- ^ "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.