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Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, specifically holding the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship within the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics in the Cockrell School of Engineering. His research focuses on the mechanical behavior of materials, particularly at high strain rates. He has contributed extensively to the understanding of fracture in nominally brittle materials and the phenomena associated with shear banding in polymeric materials. Additionally, he investigates phase transformation processes in shape memory alloys, offering insights that have implications across various engineering applications.
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