• Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • J.M. Forsyth Chair Professor
  • University Distinguished Professor
  • Regents Professor
  • Affiliated Faculty, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution, Mathematics, Multidisciplinary Engineering, and Ocean Engineering
  • Fellow, Michael E. DeBakey Institute, Texas A&M University
  • Senior Research Fellow, Texas Transportation Institute
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Kumbakonam Rajagopal

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., University of Minnesota – 1978
  • M.S., Illinois Institute of Technology – 1974
  • B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology – 1973

Research Interests

    • Continuum mechanics and its applications to non-linear materials

Certifications & Memberships

  • Fellow, The Indian National Academy of Engineering – 2010

Awards & Honors

  • Professional Achievement Award, Illinois Institute of Technology – 2021
  • Worcester Reed Warner Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) – 2021
  • Distinguished Professor Regents Professor Forsyth Chair in Mechanical Engineering
  • Honoris Causa, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy – 2019
  • President’s award for Distinguished Visitors, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva – 2016
  • Three (3) special issues, Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids honoring contributions to the field of mechanics – 2015
  • TUS President’s Award, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo – 2014
  • Honoris Causa, Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi”, Iasi – 2013
  • Honoris Causa, Charles University, Prague – 2012
  • Honoris Causa, University of Pretoria, Pretoria – 2010
  • Memorial Medal, Charles University, Prague – 2006
  • Archie Higdon Award, American Society of Engineering Education – 2005
  • Eringen Medal, Society of Engineering Science – 2004

Selected Publications

  • KR Rajagopal, A note on the linearization of the constitutive relations of non-linear elastic bodies, Mechanics Research Communications
  • K. R. Rajagopal, M. Zappalorto, Bodies described by non-monotonic strain-stress constitutive equations containing a crack subject to anti-plane shear stress, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 149, 494-499 (2018).
  • J Málek, K Rajagopal, K Tůma, Derivation of the Variants of the Burgers Model Using a Thermodynamic Approach and Appealing to the Concept of Evolving Natural Configurations, Fluids 3 (4), 69 (2018).
  • MR Nivitha, JM Krishnan, KR Rajagopal, Viscoelastic transitions exhibited by modified and unmodified bitumen, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 1-15 (2018).
  • AD Freed, KR Rajagopal, A promising approach for modeling biological fibers (vol 227, pg 1609, 2016), ACTA MECHANICA 229 (8), 3573-3573 (2018).
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