BALAKUMAR BALACHANDRAN is a Professor and Associate Chair of mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland, where he has been since 1993. He received his B. Tech. in naval architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology and his M.Sjn aerospace engineering and his Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research interests include nonlinear phenomena, dynamics and vibrations, and control. The publications that he has authored/coauthored include over 45 journal publications, a textbook entitled "Applied Nonlinear Dynamics: Analytical, Computational, and Experimental Methods" (Wiley, 1995), and a textbook entitled "Vibrations" (Thomson, 2004). He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Vibration and Control and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics.
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