Reliability and Risk Assessment in Engineering / Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (PDF)

Dr. Vijay Kumar Gupta is currently working as a Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at PDPM-Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur. He has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. His research interests include smart structure, vibration, design, reliability, finite element analysis, mechatronics and robotics, etc. He has published more than 30 papers in refereed journals and conferences and one book. He is recipient of ISAME K. Suryanarayan Rao Memorial Senior Student Award for R&D in Smart Technology for year 2003. He is a member of ASME, SPIE, IEEE, SRESA and other professional bodies.







Dr. P.V. Varde was Associate Director of Reactor Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India and is Senior Professor, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai. He completed his PhD from IIT Bombay in 1996. He worked as post-doctoral fellow at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, South Korea in 2002 and was visiting professor at CALCE, University of Maryland, USA in 2012. His research interests are development of prognostic models for nuclear plants components in general and electronic components in particular. He worked as a consultant with several international organizations such as OECD/NEA (WGRISK) Paris, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, etc. He is a chief editor for International Journal of Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering. He has over 250 publications, which includes 10 conference proceedings/books, in national and international publications.



Dr. Pavan Kumar Kankar is an Associate Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore. He has over 14 years of teaching and research experience. He obtained his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. His research interests