Sunil V. Nimje is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (Deemed To be University), Pune India. He obtained his B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from Nagpur University India in 2000. He received M.Tech degree in Mechanical System Design from IIT, Kharagpur in 2009 and Ph.D in 2016 from DIAT, Pune. He has been a Scientist for Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) during 2002-2009. At DRDO, he was associated with design and development of fuzes and safety arming mechanisms for various sub munitions. He has also been an Engineer at G.E India Technology Centre, Bangalore (2010). He joined the faculty of Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (2010). His teaching areas include composite structures and Fatigue, fracture and failure analysis. His research areas are functionally graded structures, adhesively bonded joints, damages in FRP composite structures, and composite patch repair for damaged metallic/composite structures. He is a life member of Indian society for theoretical and applied mechanics. He has written more than 35 papers in international journals and conferences. His research has been funded by Aeronautics Research and Development Board (ARDB). Sashi Kanta Panigrahi (PhD, IIT Kharagpur) is working as Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune and heading the Department at present for the second term. He has worked as an International Visiting Academic with University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA). He has more than 28 years of wide and intensive teaching, research, training and administrative experience. His research works primarily in the areas of Analysis and Design of composite materials, Characterization of FRP composite materials, Finite Element Analysis of FRP composite materials and composite structures, Natural Fiber Reinforced Composite (NFRC) materials, Fracture Mechanics principle applicable to modelling and simulation of damages in orthotropic and isotropic materials and material characterization/Stress analysis/Solid Mechanics/Machine design. He has been working on the development of advanced finite element methods and nonlinear finite element analyses and modelling of engineering structures with functionally graded/monolithic adhesively bonded joints. He has published over 210 research articles in peer-reviewed scholarly research papers International Journals/Conferences including five books, one monograph and many conference proceedings including a series of lecture materials. He has been awarded with "BHARAT JYOTI" in the year 2012 and conferred as Fellow of different professional bodies which includes Institution of Engineers, Indian Society for Mechanical Engineering (ISME). He is a member of many International/National professional bodies and has been a frequent reviewer for many leading peer reviewed International journals of high standards. He has also served as Technical committee member or advisory board member for several National/International conferences.
