Romesh Batra

Dr. Batra's publications are available on Google Scholar.

Selected publications:

• G. J. Nie, R. C. Batra, Analysis and material tailoring of functionally graded linearly elastic orthotropic incompressible material cylinders under combined loads, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, https://doi.org/10.1080/15376494.2025.2608933, 2026.
• S, William, Z., Mostafa, J. Krometis, R. C. Batra, T. Iliescu, R. De Vita, Deep learning reduced order models of vaginal tear propagation, J. of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 170, Art. No. 107074, 2025. 
• R. C. Batra, G. J. Nie, Material tailoring of linearly elastic functionally graded rubberlike cylinders under combined radial expansion extension and twisting deformations, J. Elasticity, 157, Art. No. 60, 2025.
• K. A. Fairclough, R. C. Batra, Torsion and Extension of Functionally Graded Mooney-Rivlin Cylinders, J. Elasticity, 157, Art. No. 4, 2025. 
• R. C. Batra, K. A. Fairclough, Coupled Torsion and Inflation of Functionally Graded and Residually Stressed Mooney-Rivlin Hollow Cylinders, Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 30, 1161-1187, 2025. 
• A. Farzam, R. C. Batra, R. K. Kapania, First failure load of rectangular laminated and sandwich plates using isogeometric analysis, AIAA J., 62, 4115-4126, 2024.
• G. Nie, R. C. Batra, Analytical solutions and material tailoring for combined radial expansion and twisting of functionally graded orthotropic hollow cylinders, Thin-Walled Structures, 202, Art. No. 112115, 2024.
• R. C. Batra, Loading Devices and Non-classical Boundary Conditions, J. Elasticity, J. Elasticity, 155, 41-50, 2024.
• G. Gopinath, R. C. Batra, Comparison of local, gradient-enhanced and integral form of continuum damage approaches to strain localization in fiber reinforced composites, Composite Structures, Vol. 329, Art. No. 117737, 2024.
•  Alejandro Pacheco-Sanjuan, Romesh C. Batra, Insights into the auxetic behavior of graphene: A study on temperature dependence of Poisson’s ratio and in-plane moduli, Carbon, Vol. 215, Art. No. 118416, 2023.

• 2026, Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors
• 2019, Belytschko Medal, US Association of Computational Mechanics
• 2018, Symposium at the 18^th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics honoring Romesh Batra, Chicago, 2018
• 2018, Member of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Panel on Mechanical Science and Engineering (Platform Mechanics team leader)
• 2017, Member of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Panel for Lethality and Protection
• 2017, Fulbright Specialist in Solid Mechanics, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India, Dec. 2017 – Jan. 2018
• 2016, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award
• 2016,   Alumni Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising
• 2016, Alumni Achievement Medal for Academic Excellence, School of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
• 2015, ASME Honorary Member Award
• 2013, Fulbright Specialist in Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Thapar University, Dec. 2013
• 2011, Fellow of the US Association of Computational Mechanics
• 2011, Virginia Outstanding Scientist Award (https://www.smv.org/storage/app/media/PDFs/virginiasoutstandingscientists.pdf)
• 2010, SCHEV (State Council of Higher Education of Virginia) Outstanding Faculty Award (http://www.schev.edu/index/institutional/outstanding-faculty-awards/award-recipients/previous-award-recipients)
• 2010, Selected for inclusion in the ISI List of Highly Cited Authors
• 2010, Lee Hsun Research Award, the Institute of Metals Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2009, Engineering Science Medal, Society of Engineering Science
• 2007, College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service 
• 2006, D.Sc. (Honoris Causa), Thapar University, India
• 2005, Honorary Professor, Lanzhou University of Technology, China
• 2005, College of Engineering Alumni Award for Outreach Excellence
• 2004, Honorary Professor, Nanjing Univ. of Science & Technology, China
• 2004, Alumni Award for Excellence in Research
• 2003, Frank J. Maher Outstanding Faculty Award, ESM Department
• 2002-2006,     Member of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Panel on Survivability & Lethality
• 2000, Eric Reissner Medal, International Society of Computational Engineering Science (ICCES)
• 1998, Fellow, Society of Engineering Science, Inc.
• 1997, College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research
• 1996-2000, Member of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Panel on Armor & Armaments
• 1993, Elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars
• 1992, Alexander von Humboldt Award for Senior Scientists
• 1992, Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education
• 1991, Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics
• 1990, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, Faculty Excellence Award, Missouri University of Science and Technology (MUST), Rolla
• 1986, Halliburton Excellence Award, School of Engineering, MUST

• Johns Hopkins University: Ph.D., Mechanics and Materials, 1972
• University of Waterloo,:M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, 1969
• Punjabi University (India): B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1968