Krishnamurthi RameshProfessor K Ramesh is currently the K Mahesh Chair Professor at the Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He received the Zandman award in 2012 for outstanding research contributions uilizing photoelastic coatings and has been a member of editorial boards of Optics and Lasers in Engineering and Strain since 2000. He has developed software such as P_Scope(R), DigiTFP(R), DigiPhoto and PSIF for photoelastic analysis and innovative e-books with extensive animations for teaching several courses. Read More Read Less