Sitaram Rao Valluri

Sitaram Rao Valluri (b. June 25, 1924) is an engineer and scientist noted for his work in metal fatigue.[1] He completed his doctorate in 1954 at Caltech with a dissertation under Ernest Sechler[2] and stayed thereafter to continue his research work. In 1963, he won the Wright Brothers Medal with George Bockrath and James Glassco for a paper on the relationship between crack propagation and fatigue in metals.[3] He later returned to India and served as director of the National Aerospace Laboratories for 19 years and was elected to the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1971.

References

  1. Metal Fatigue (1962) Engineering and Science 25(9), 12-13.
  2. Valluri, S.R. (1954) Some studies in the fundamental parameters of fatigue, PhD dissertation.
  3. Valluri, S.R., Glassco, J.B., and Bockrath, G.E. (1963) Further Considerations of a Theory of Crack Propagation in Metal Fatigue, SAE Technical Paper 630386, doi:10.4271/630386.

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