IIT Madras Prof's Digital book published by UK’s Institute of Physics

U.K.’s Institute of Physics has published IIT Madras Professor K. Ramesh's digital book on ‘Photoelasticity’.

IIT Madras faculty Prof. K. Ramesh has achieved a milestone as his digital book has been published in the UK’s Institute of Physics. He is the ‘Mahesh K. Chair Professor’ in the Department of Applied Mechanics. Titled ‘Developments in Photoelasticity A Renaissance,’ the book is based on decades of active research by Prof. K. Ramesh and his students at IIT Madras.

This digital book brings out in one volume, the use of Photoelasticity to understand complex problems such as understanding biological systems through their locomotion, which can help develop flexible robots for disaster management, improve agricultural production by understanding the stresses developed in plant roots, and the role of needle shape in epidural injections, among other applications.

‘Developments in Photoelasticity A Renaissance’ was released today on February 14, 2022, in a virtual event by Krishna Mahesh, Managing Director of Sundaram Brake Linings Ltd. and Founder-CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices (P) Ltd, in the presence of Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, Prof. Mahesh Panchagnula, Dean (Alumni and Corporate Relations), IIT Madras, and other faculty and staff of the Institute.

Diverse applications of Photoelasticity from many key applications in mechanical sciences as well as neurobiology, plant biology, biomaterials, biomimetics, granular materials, soft matter, glass stress analysis, and rapid prototyping for complex model fabrication are also discussed in this book.

Speaking on the occasion Prof. Rajpal Sirohi, a Padma Shri Recipient who is from Alabama A&M University, USA, and the Series Editor of Advances in Optics, Photonics and Optoelectronics highlighted the organisation of the book and said how it will be useful to both students and practising researchers in the field.