Novel Defence Functional and Engineering Materials (Ndfem) Volume 2: Engineering Materials for Defence Applications

Dr. N. Eswara Prasad joined DRDO in 1985 after obtaining a B. Tech. and Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. He retired in September 2022 after serving the Indian Ministry of Defence for more than three decades as an Outstanding Scientist of DRDO. Dr. Prasad has contributed immensely to the development of several defence systems, including fighter aircraft structures, engines, missiles, naval propulsion, and personal protection systems. He has been instrumental in awarding 14 defence production technologies to over 40 Indian industries. Dr. Eswara Prasad is internationally known for his research on fatigue, fracture and life extension behaviour of several aero, structural and functional materials, with over 750 wide-ranging publications; 12 government white papers; 17 international edited books/conference proceedings, including Aluminium - Lithium Alloys: Processing, Properties and Applications and a 2-volume Reference Work Aerospace Materials and Material Technologies. He has been Chairman, President or Member of 10+ national committees and bodies and received 15+ national and international awards and 70+ honours and recognitions. These include fellowships of 6 national and international science and engineering academies/institutions, notably Founder Fellow of the Indian Structural Integrity Society (FInSIS) and Fellow of the Asia Pacific Academy of Sciences (FAPAM).
Dr. Russell Wanhill is emeritus Principal Research Scientist, Aerospace Vehicles Division, Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR), in the Netherlands. He holds two Doctorates, one from the University of Manchester (1968) and the second from the Delft University of Technology (1994). He joined the NLR in 1970, and since then has investigated fatigue and fracture of all classes of aerospace alloys. He is co-author of the book Fracture Mechanics (1984), which ran into a second edition; co-author with Simon Barter of themonograph Fatigue of Beta Processed and Beta Heat-treated Titanium Alloys (2012); co-author and co-editor for the book Aluminium - Lithium Alloys: Processing, Properties and Applications (2014); co-author and co-editor for the 2-volume series Aerospace Materials and Material Technologies (2017); co-author of the monograph Corrosion and Stress Corrosion Testing of Aerospace Vehicle Structural Alloys (2018); and co-author of the monograph Fatigue Crack growth Failure and Lifing Analyses for Metallic Aircraft Structures and Components (2019).
Dr. Dipak Kumar Setua obtained his M.Sc. (Chemistry) in 1981 and Ph.D. (Polymer Science and Rubber Technology) in 1985, both from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. Subsequently, he joined as a research scientist and spent more than 3 decades at the Defence Materials and Stores R & D Establishment (DMSRDE), Kanpur, India. Furthermore, Dr. Setua served DMRSRDE and DRDO as a DRDO Fellow until 2022. He spent 2 years (1989-91) at the Institute of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Ohio, Akron, USA, as a visiting scientist and remained Director of the Advanced Centre of Research on High Energy Materials (ACRHEM), University of Hyderabad, India, during 2013-14. Some of the of his research include short fibre-rubber composites, polymer blends and compatibility, polymer characterization, magneto-rheological elastomer, and design and development of polymer-based composites and nanocomposites and products for personal protection, aerospace systems and bio-medical applications. Dr. Setua has published more than 100 archival papers, several patents and book chapters. He has also received many prestigious honours and awards.

Dr. N. Eswara Prasad於1985年加入DRDO，當時他從印度理工學院班納拉斯印度大學獲得了學士學位和冶金工程博士學位。他在2022年9月退休，作為DRDO的傑出科學家，為印度國防部服務了三十多年。Prasad博士在多個防禦系統的開發中做出了巨大貢獻，包括戰鬥機結構、發動機、導彈、海軍推進和個人防護系統。他在向40多家印度工業授予14項國防生產技術方面發揮了重要作用。Eswara Prasad博士以其對多種航空、結構和功能材料的疲勞、斷裂和壽命延長行為的研究而享譽國際，發表了750多篇廣泛的論文，12篇政府白皮書，17本國際編輯的書籍/會議論文集，包括《鋁-鋰合金：加工、性能和應用》和一部2卷本的參考工作《航空材料和材料技術》。他曾擔任10多個國家委員會和機構的主席、主席或成員，並獲得了15多個國家和國際獎項以及70多個榮譽和表彰，其中包括6個國家和國際科學和工程學院/機構的會士，特別是印度結構完整性學會（FInSIS）的創始會士和亞太科學院（FAPAM）的會士。

Dr. Russell Wanhill是荷蘭皇家航空中心（NLR）航空器部門的名譽研究科學家，他擁有兩個博士學位，一個來自曼徹斯特大學（1968年），另一個來自代爾夫特理工大學（1994年）。他於1970年加入NLR，自那時以來一直研究各類航空合金的疲勞和斷裂。他是《斷裂力學》（1984年）的合著者，該書出版了第二版；與Simon Barter合著的專著《β處理和β熱處理鈦合金的疲勞》（2012年）；《鋁-鋰合金：加工、性能和應用》（2014年）的合著者和合編者；《航空材料和材料技術》（2017年）的合著者和合編者；《航空器結構合金的腐蝕和應力腐蝕測試》（2018年）的合著者；以及《金屬飛機結構和零部件的疲勞裂紋增長失效和壽命分析》（2019年）的合著者。

Dr. Dipak Kumar Setua於1981年獲得M.Sc.（化學）學位，並於1985年獲得印度理工學院（IIT）卡拉格普爾分校的聚合物科學和橡膠技術博士學位。隨後，他作為研究科學家加入了印度坎普爾的國防材料和儲存研究與發展機構（DMSRDE），並在那裡度過了三十多年。此外，Setua博士還擔任DRDO研究員，直到2022年。他在1989年至1991年期間作為訪問科學家在美國俄亥俄州阿克倫的阿克倫大學聚合物工程研究所工作，並在2013年至2014年期間擔任印度海得拉巴大學先進高能材料研究中心（ACRHEM）的主任。他的研究領域包括短纖維橡膠複合材料、聚合物共混和相容性、聚合物表徵、磁流變彈性體以及基於聚合物的複合材料和納米複合材料的設計和開發，以及用於個人防護、航空航天系統和生物醫學應用的產品。Setua博士發表了100多篇存檔論文，多個專利和專書章節。他還獲得了許多重要的榮譽和獎項。