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{{Short description|Indian academic}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox scientist
|name =Narinder Kumar Gupta
|image =Professor_Narinder_Kumar_Gupta.jpg
|image_size = 225x250px
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1942|08|22}}
|birth_place = [[Mirpur, Jammu and Kashmir|Mirpur]], Jammu and Kashmir, India
|field = [[Solid mechanics]], [[Plasticity (physics)|plasticity]], [[Impact (mechanics)]]
|alma_mater = [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi]], [[National Institute of Technology, Srinagar]]
|work_institution = [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi]], 
[[University of Cambridge]], 
[[Ruhr University Bochum]], 
[[RWTH Aachen University]]
|doctoral_advisor = Professor B. Karunes
|known_for = [[Applied mechanics]], [[Plasticity (physics)|Plasticity]], [[Impact (mechanics)]]
|prizes = J.C.Bose Memorial Award, 
O.P. Bhasin Award, 
[[Alexander von Humboldt Foundation|Alexander von Humboldt]] Research Award, 
[[Doctor Honoris Causa]] by the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]], 
Mercator Professorship, supported by [[Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft|DFG]]. 
[[Padma Shri]]
|religion =
|footnotes =
}}

'''Narinder Kumar Gupta''' is a research scientist, educator, and engineer. Born 22 August 1942 in [[Mirpur, Pakistan|Mirpur]], Jammu and Kashmir, [[India]], he is a professor of [[Mechanics]] at the [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi|Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://am.iitd.ac.in/nkgupta.html|title=Gupta N.K.|website=am.iitd.ac.in|access-date=2019-07-03}}</ref> Gupta works in the area of [[Finite strain theory|large deformations]] of [[metals]] and [[Composite material|composites]] at low, medium and high rates of loading. His research stimulates the development of [[Constitutive equation|constitutive behaviour]] of materials, understanding of the basic mechanics of large deformation, design for [[crashworthiness]] of road and air [[vehicles]], design for safety in defence applications and in design of [[metal forming]] processes.

==Education==
[[File:History of civilization (1967).jpg|thumb|Painting on History of civilization made by Prof. N. K. Gupta]]
He received his Bachelor of Science from the [[Jammu University|Jammu and Kashmir University]] in 1960, his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the [[Regional Engineering College, Srinagar]] (Now [[NIT Srinagar]]) in 1966 and his PhD from the [[IIT Delhi]] under Prof. B. Karunes in 1972.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

He did his [[post-doctoral]] studies in [[Cambridge University]] under Professor W. Johnson (1977) and as Alexander von Humboldt fellow at [[Ruhr University Bochum]] under Professor Th. J. Lehmann (1981).<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail|url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/detail/P02-1314|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206110531/https://www.insaindia.res.in/detail/P02-1314|archive-date=February 6, 2020|access-date=2019-07-03|website=www.insaindia.res.in}}</ref>

==Profession==
Gupta has been a faculty member in the department of applied mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi<ref>[http://am.iitd.ac.in/?q=node/24 Faculty website, Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi] - [http://am.iitd.ac.in/nkgupta.html N. K. Gupta IIT web site]</ref> since 1971 and has been a full professor since 1987 and retired in 2005. He continued as [[Henry Ford]] Chair Emeritus Professor from 2005 to 2010, and then as emeritus professor till 2011. He was invited as Mercator Guest Professor at [[RWTH|RWTH Aachen]], supported by the [[Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft|German Research Foundation]] for one year (2011–2012).

Gupta continued to work as "INSA (Indian National Science Academy) Senior Scientist" at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, from 2012 to 2017. He was also associated for a period (2013–14) with the Supercomputer Education and Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Presently, he continues with his academic work as an "INSA Honorary Scientist" since 2017 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

==Activity fields==
Gupta works in the area of [[Finite strain theory|large deformations]] of [[metals]] and [[Composite material|composites]] at low, medium and high rates of loading. His research finds application in development of [[Constitutive equation|constitutive behaviour]] of materials, understanding of the basic mechanics of large deformation, design for [[crashworthiness]] of road and air [[vehicles]], design for safety in defence applications and in design of [[metal forming]] processes.

He has been instrumental in setting up the India's first and internationally recognised low and medium velocity impact testing laboratory in the Department of Applied Mechanics at the IIT Delhi and has fostered and nurtured this area in India.

He has published over 350 scientific papers (with over 5000 citations<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KBoDH2UAAAAJ|title=N. K. Gupta - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2019-07-03}}</ref>) in peer-reviewed national and international journals and conference proceedings, edited eight books,<ref>N. K. Gupta (editor) (2003) ''IMPLAST' 03, Plasticity and Impact Mechanics'', Phoenix Publishing
House, New Delhi, India</ref> mentored nearly 40 PhD and 75 [[MTech]] students, and undertaken national and international research and consultancy projects. He has been a visiting professor and fellow and invited to deliver guest lectures in universities in [[Armenia]], Australia, [[Brazil]], China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Trinidad, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://am.iitd.ac.in/nkgupta.html|title=Gupta N.K.|website=am.iitd.ac.in|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref>

He was invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the 2008 World Congress of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), held in Adelaide, Australia. The German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, invited him to deliver a lecture at an annual event in 2012 along with the German scientist Prof. M. Kleiner, who was then the President of DFG.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leopoldina.org/en/de/events/event/event/2074/|title=Leopoldina-Lecture "Challenges for the Engineering Sciences" (06.11.2012)|website=www.leopoldina.org|language=en|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref> Gupta delivered the "K S Krishnan memorial lecture" during the annual meeting of the INSA<ref name="INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail">{{Cite web|url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/detail/P02-1314|title=INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail|website=www.insaindia.res.in|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref> at Lucknow in 2013. In 2014, he delivered a plenary lecture to the 39th Solid Mechanics Conference held in Poland. He has been invited to deliver national lectures, which include Taylor memorial, Seth memorial, Bhatnagar memorial, Karunes memorial and Joga Rao memorial, and also numerous inaugural, keynote and invited lectures in major conferences and reputed institutions in India.

He has been on the [[Editorial advisory board]]s of the ''International Journal of Mechanical Sciences'' (1981–1985), the ''International Journal of Impact Engineering'', the ''International Journal of Crashworthiness'' (1996–2007), the ''Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, Thin Walled Structures, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures'' (2006–2011), the ''Journal of Aeronautics Society of India'', ''Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy'', ''Sadhana'', ''Defence Science Journal'' and ''Everyman's Science''. He is president of the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, past president of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and past president of the Indian Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was vice-president of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] and chairman of the National Committee of the academy for [[International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics|IUTAM]] (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) and [[International Mathematical Union|IMU]] (International Mathematical Union). He has been member of IUTAM Bureau( 2008–2012) and Congress Committee (2008 - 2018). He is member or chairman of several other national and international academic bodies. He is fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=INSA INDIA - Indian National Science Academy News & Updates|url=https://www.insaindia.org/|access-date=2021-01-17|website=INSA India|language=en-US|archive-date=6 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506185747/https://www.insaindia.org/|url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Indian National Academy of Engineering]],<ref>http://www.inae.org/fellows_sec_3.html<nowiki/>{{Dead link|date=January 2021}}</ref> the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=The National Academy of Sciences, India - Fellows|url=http://nasi.nic.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=G|access-date=2021-01-17|website=nasi.nic.in}}</ref> the [[Aeronautical Society of India]], the [[Institution of Engineers (India)|Institution of Engineers]], India and The World Academy of Sciences ([[TWAS]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://twas.ictp.it/mbrs/mbrs-list |title=Members by surname — TWAS Portal |access-date=2011-02-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101101111000/http://twas.ictp.it/mbrs/mbrs-list |archive-date=1 November 2010}}</ref>

Gupta's expertise in the mechanics of large deformation of metals and composites under impact loading has greatly augmented India's advance in technology, in particular, defence and aerospace researches. He helped found IMPLAST, an international event held regularly in India and countries across the world, including Australia (2000), Germany (2007), and the USA (2010). The last IMPLAST held in India was in 2016,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://implast2016.iitd.ac.in/|title=IMPLAST 2016|website=implast2016.iitd.ac.in|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref> and the recent was held in Republic of Korea in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=IMPLAST 2019|url=http://www.implast2019.info/index.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230073330/http://www.implast2019.info/index.php|archive-date=December 30, 2019|access-date=2019-07-04|website=www.implast2019.info}}</ref> He also initiated a series of Indo-Russian workshops in "Theoretical and Applied Mechanics", held in both India and Russia. Gupta has edited nearly a dozen volumes of IMPLAST and Indo-Russian workshops, which the scientific community has very well received. These events provide a forum for Indian scientists to interact with several known international scientists. Gupta has been a voice of India in international forums in articulating the country's long-term vision on key scientific and technical issues.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

==Honours==
[[File:Padma Shri.jpg|thumb|'''Receiving Padam Shri Award from President of India ( Shri R. Venkataraman)''']]
Gupta was conferred [[List of Padma Shri award recipients (1990–1999)|Padma Shri]] by the President of India in 1991.
[[File:Recipient of J C Bose Award .jpg|thumb|'''Recipient of J C Bose Award from the Prime Minister of India (Dr. Manmohan Singh)''']]
[[File:Humboldt research award.jpg|thumb|'''Receiving Humboldt research award from the president of Humboldt Foundation''']]
Professor Gupta is recipient of J.C. Bose Memorial Award,<ref name=":0" /> the O. P. Bhasin Award,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://am.iitd.ac.in/?q=node/65|title=Honours and Awards {{!}} Department of Applied Mechanics IIT Delhi|website=am.iitd.ac.in|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref> the Millennium Plaques of Honour (ISCA) Award,<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=NISCAIR Blog|url=http://blog.niscair.res.in/?p=119|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304125710/http://blog.niscair.res.in/?p=119|archive-date=March 4, 2016|access-date=|website=NISCAIR}}</ref> the Erskine (New Zealand) Award, the [[Alexander von Humboldt Foundation|Alexander von Humboldt]] (Germany) Research Award and several other honours and awards. He has been conferred [[Doctor Honoris Causa]] by the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] and Mercator Professorship of [[Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft|DFG]] and DRDO Academy excellence award.

Gupta is Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy,<ref name="INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail"/> Indian National Academy of Engineering,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.inae.in/search-fellow/|title=Search for Fellows|website=Indian National Academy of Engineering|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref> National Academy of Sciences, India<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=G|title=The National Academy of Sciences, India - Fellows|website=www.nasi.org.in|access-date=2019-07-04|archive-date=21 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021102942/http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=G|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the Third World Academy of Sciences.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twas.org/directory/gupta-narinder-kumar|title=Gupta, Narinder Kumar|website=TWAS|language=en|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref>

The esteem that Gupta enjoys nationally and internationally is shown by the fact that conferences to honour his contributions were held on his 60th and 70th birthday in India in 2002 and 2012, On his 65th birthday in Bochum, Germany, in 2007, and was honoured on 70th in Singapore in 2012. Special issues of the ''International Journal of Impact Engineering'',<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-impact-engineering/special-issues|title=International Journal of Impact Engineering}}</ref> ''Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy'' and ''Defence Science Journal'' were devoted to his birthdays. These issues received contributions from highly regarded international scientists. A special issue to honour his contributions has been published by the ''International Journal of Impact Engineering'', in 2017.<ref name=":1" />

Gupta has been named as one of five Honorary Members<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iitd.ac.in/content/prof-n-k-gupta-nominated-honorary-member-intl-soc-impact-engg|title=Prof. N. K. Gupta nominated as honorary member of Intl. Soc. Impact Engg. {{!}} Indian Institute of Technology Delhi|website=www.iitd.ac.in|access-date=2019-07-03}}</ref> - honoured as one of the top five world scientists in the area of impact mechanics - by the International Society of Impact Engineering.

In 2019 Prof. Gupta is awarded prestigious "DRDO Academy Excellence Award"

==Personal==
Gupta and his wife Rashmi Gupta, have two sons, Shivanshu and Shalav.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

==Selected publications==
* N. K. Gupta and S. K. Sinha (1990); "Collapse of a laterally compressed square tube resting on a flat base". ''International Journal of Solids and Structures'', '''26''', 601‑615
* N. K. Gupta and A. Meyers (1992); "Considerations of translated yield surfaces". ''International Journal of Plasticity'', '''8''', 729‑740
* N. K. Gupta and V. Madhu (1997); "An Experimental Study of normal and oblique impact of a hard core projectile on single and layered plates". ''International Journal of Impact Engineering'', '''27''', 901 – 918
* N. K. Gupta, (2002) "IMPLAST symposia and large deformations – a perspective", ''International Journal of Impact Engineering'', '''27''', 901 – 918
* O. T. Bruhns, N. K. Gupta, A. Meyers and H. Xiao (2003), "Bending of an elastoplastic strip with isotropic and kinematic hardening". ''Archive of Applied Mechanics'', Volume '''72''', pages 759–778, 2003
* N. K. Gupta and Nagesh, (2006) "Collapse mode transitions of thin tubes with wall thickness, end condition and shape eccentricity", ''International Journal of Mechanical Sciences'', '''48''', 210–223
* N. K. Gupta, M. A. Iqbal and G. S. Sekhon (2007), "Effect of projectile nose shape, impact velocity, and target thickness on the deformation behaviour of thin aluminium targets", ''International Journal of Solids and Structures'', '''44''', 3411–343
* N. K. Gupta, N. Mohamed Sheriff and R. Velmurugan, (2007) "Experimental and numerical investigations into collapse behavior of thin spherical shells under drop hammer impact", ''International Journal of Solids and Structures'', '''44''', 3136–3155
* M. Klaus, H. _G. Reimerdes and N. K. Gupta (2012), "Experimental and Numerical investigations of residual strength after impact of sandwich panels", ''International Journal of Impact Engineering'', '''44''', 50–58
[[File:Distinguished mechanical engineering educator award.jpg|thumb|Distinguished mechanical engineering educator award being given by the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi]]

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