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Tarun Kant〔( Prof Tarun Kant Home Page )〕 was born on 1 July 1946 at Ballia 〔(Ballia )〕 in Uttar Pradesh, India. He received his BSc degree from the Allahabad University 〔(Allahabad University )〕 in 1962, his BTech (Hons) in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) in 1967 and MTech in civil engineering with specialization in structural engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) in 1969. He spent about one and a half years in a consulting engineering firm in Mumbai before joining IIT Bombay on 20 January1971 as a lecturer. He earned his PhD degree while working as a lecturer from IIT Bombay in 1977. He was selected as an assistant professor in 1978 and a professor in 1986. He has held the positions of the Department Head (2000–2002), the Dean (Planning) of the Institute (2001–2003), the chairman of the prestigious Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-1998) and the chairman of the Central Library (1995–1999) with great distinction. He initiated and introduced many innovations effectively during his tenure. The Institute appointed him as an institute chair professor with effect from 31 December 2009. Kant was elected a (Fellow ) of the Indian National Academy of Engineering ((INAE )) in 1999, a (Fellow ) of the Indian Academy of Sciences ((IASc )) in 2004, a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2007 and a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India ((NASI )) in 2011. He is the first and only civil engineer in the country to get elected to all the four national academies. He is also the fourth civil engineer to get elected to the two national science academies (INSA and IASc). He has been visiting professors at University of Wales, Swansea (1979-’82), University of Cambridge (1993) and University of California, Los Angeles (2005). He is a recipient of the ''Burmah-Shell Best Paper Prize''. He was awarded the ''1979 Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust (U.K) Scholarship'' and the ''1992-’93 European Commission (EC) Senior Faculty Exchange Fellowship'', both by the Government of India. IIT-Bombay, on 13 March 2007, conferred the ''2006 Professor H.H. Mathur Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Sciences'' in recognition of his outstanding work in the area of Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures. He also received the ''2009 Khosla National Award for his life time achievement'' in the field of engineering. He is also a recipient of the ''2010 IIT Bombay Research Paper Award''. IIT Bombay, on 4 April 2012, conferred on him the ''2011 Life Time Achievement Award''. ICCS17 (17th International Conference on Composite Structures, Porto, Portugal, 17–21 June 2013) honoured him by calling him a ''legend'' and recognized him as a pioneer in initiating a new direction in mechanics of composites. He has published more than 135 research papers in refereed journals, 6 chapters in edited books, about 145 papers in conference proceedings, edited 4 books and currently serves on the editorial boards of 5 international journals and in diverse areas of computational structural mechanics. He has supervised 25 PhD theses and over 75 MTech dissertations. He has ''Research & Citation Standing in terms of h-index of 25 on Web of Science.'' His current citations are over 1800 on Web of Science He has carried out 12 sponsored projects and has authored about 21 unpublished reports. He has edited a set of two volumes entitled ''Finite Elements in Computational Mechanics'', Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1985 (ISBN 978-0-08-031682-6) and has co-edited another volume entitled ''Advances in Structural Engineering'', Quest Publications, Mumbai, 2000 (ISBN 81-87099-08-9). He served a term on the editorial board of Computational Mechanics – An International Journal and currently serves on editorial boards of 5 international journals: Structural Engineering & Mechanics - An International Journal (), International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics (CMESM) (& Francis ), Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (CMES) (Science Press ), Advances in Civil Engineering (Publishing Corp. ) and International Journal of Computational Methods (Scientific ). He is responsible for establishing a research school of computational structural mechanics at IIT-Bombay which has influenced many of his colleagues as well. He was elected president of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM) for two terms (1999 and 2000), has founded Indian Association for Computational Mechanics (IndACM) and Indian Association for Structural Engineering (IASE) and is responsible for organization of biennial ICCMS (International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation) and SEC (Structural Engineering Convention) congresses in the country. He was an INSA nominated member on the National Committee of International Union of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) for two 3-year terms: July 2000-June 2003 and January 2008-December 2011. He was also a member of the General Assembly of IUTAM until 2012. He is presently the Convener and member of Engineering & Technology Sections of INSA and IASc, respectively. He has been on the sdvisory panels of many national and international conferences. He has lectured at several universities and research institutions and has participated in numerous conferences and seminars both within and outside India. He was the Convener of a very successful International Conference on Finite Elements in Computational Mechanics held in 1985 (FEICOM-85) at Bombay. He was also general chairman of SEC-2000: 2nd Structural Engineering Convention held on 5–8 January 2000 at IIT-Bombay and chair of ICCMS09: 3rd International Congress on Computational Mechanics & Simulation held on 1–5 December 2009 at IIT-Bombay. He is listed in several Who's Who in the World. He is a fellow of The Institution of Engineers (IE) and The Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI), a member of International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) and life member of The Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM) and Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and founder life member of International Society for Computational Engineering and Science (ISCES), Indian Association for Computational Mechanics (IndACM) and Indian Association for Structural Engineering (IASE). He is also a nominated fellow of The World Innovation Foundation (UK). His research interests lie in the areas of solid mechanics, plates, shells, fibre reinforced polymer composites, refined higher-order theories, thermal stresses, transient dynamics, finite element and other numerical methods, use of polymer composites in construction, mechanics of composite materials and structures & computational mechanics. __INDEX__ 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tarun Kant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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