Surjya Kumar MaitiSurjya Kumar Maiti is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has more than thirty-five years of teaching and research experience and has published nearly 100 papers in national and internatonal journals. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and worked as postdoctoral assistant at the University of Cambridge for two years (1981-1983). He has taught courses on solid mechanics, strength of materials, stress analysis and pressure vessel design at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His areas of research include fracture mechanics, finite element and boundary element methods, structural health monitoring and stress corrosion cracking. Read More Read Less