| Namas Chandra | |
| Birth Date: | April 17, 1952 |
| Education: | Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University; M. S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston; AMIE Metallurgy, Institute of Engineers, Calcutta; B.E. Mechanical Engineering, University of Madras. |
| Discipline: | Mechanical Engineering |
| Institutions: | University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
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Namas Chandra (born April 17, 1952) is the retired Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director, Center for Injury Bio-mechanics, Materials, and Medicine at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was Elmer-Koch Professorship of Engineering and Associate Dean for research and Graduate Studies at the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He was the director of the Trauma Mechanics Research Initiative and the BioMechanics and Materials Laboratory at UNL. He was also the Director of $5.8 M UNL-Army Center for Trauma Mechanics. From 1986 to 2006, he was at Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Florida State University. He finished his MS from University of Houston in 1983 and PhD from Texas A&M University in 1986. In 2005, he won FSU's 'Outstanding Researcher' award.[1]
Chandra's research interests included materials science, mechanics of materials and structures, molecular dynamics, superplasticity, composites, and thermal properties of composites.[1] His research was on the mechanics of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and their effects on brain tissue. Chandra's study of traumatic brain injury (TBI) was primarily for the United States military, a major sponsor of the research initiative.[2]