| Rangachar Narayana Iyengar | |
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R N Iyengar
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| Born | June 2, 1943 Mysore, India |
| Residence | Bangalore, India |
| Citizenship | India |
| Nationality | India |
| Fields | disaster mitigation, Structural Dynamics, Random Vibration, nonlinear systems, Earthquake Engineering, Railway Track-dynamics, Rainfall Modeling, History of Science |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, India |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Science (Ph.D.) Indian Institute of Science (M.Sc.(Engg.)) |
| Doctoral advisor | K.T.S. Iyengar |
Professor Rangachar Narayana Iyengar (Kannada: ರಂಗಾಚಾರ್ ನಾರಾಯಣ ಐಯಂಗಾರ್) is a renowned civil engineer from India. He was with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for about four decades. He has been the director of Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee (1994–2000). He is currently a Raja Ramanna Fellow, Editor of 'SADHANA' published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and the Director, Center for Disaster Mitigation (CDM) at Jain University, Bangalore.[1] Apart from his contributions to Engineering, he is also widely recognized for his work in History of Science.
He is a fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences, India. He was awarded the Alexander Von Humbolt Fellowship (Senior 1978-80, 1992 and 1997). He is the recipient of the Sir M Visvesvaraya award (Government of Karnataka 1996) for senior scientists for lifetime contributions to science and technology. He has held visiting positions at the Purdue University, Brooklyn Polytechnic, New York and Distinguished Schimdt Visiting Chair, Florida Atlantic University (1995). He has lead field investigations after the Khilari (1993), Chamoli (1999) and Kutch (2001) earthquakes. He has been a consultant to various industries and research & development organizations in India including NPC, IGCAR, DRDO, RDSO, BHEL and Kerala State Government.
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R N Iyengar joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore as Masters student and obtained his M.Sc. (Engineering) (1966) and PhD (1970) from IISc. His PhD thesis on stochastic modeling of earthquake loads was the first doctoral thesis in the country in the area of random vibrations. He joined IISc as a faculty member in 1969 and became a Professor in 1986. Until his reteirment, he was the KSIIDC Chair Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and also Professor in Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
After his retirement from IISc, he has been associated with the Jain University , Bangalore and is instrumental in setting up Underwriters Laboratories-Jain Fire Laboratory, India (UL-JFL) which he heads now. The UL-JFL is a state-of-art engineering laboratory devoted to fire safety education and research that will promote industry academia interaction, contributing to mitigation of fire hazard in the Indian habitat.
Professor Iyengar's fields of expertise have encompassed the areas of structural dynamics, random vibrations, earthquake engineering, disaster mitigation, railway track dynamics, rainfall modeling and history of science. He has inspired several generations of students in the above areas of research. He has supervised 11 PhD students.
He has published nearly 100 papers in leading refereed journals across the globe.