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Dr. N. G. Nair
is the Founder, Proprietor,
Chief designer and Consultant
of NGN Composites. He is a renowned
teacher, researcher, consultant,
designer and product developer
with well over 46 years of professional
experience out of which 37 years
are in the field of composites.
Born in 1939 in India, he graduated
in Civil Engineering in 1961,
and got his Post graduate and
doctorate degrees in Structural
Engineering from Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore, and Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT),
Kanpur respectively.
He worked as Junior Engineer
and Lecturer during 1961-65
in Kerala. His work in the field
of Composites started in 1970
while he was employed as Senior
Technologist at Pilkington Brothers
Ltd., England. He later joined
the Indian Institute of Technology
Madras (IITM) in 1975 as Assistant
Professor of FRP Research Centre
(renamed as Composites Technology
Centre in 1987). He was promoted
to professor level in 1977 and
was the Head of the Centre since
1979 until retired in 2001.
His technical responsibilities
at IITM included teaching, research
guidance, sponsored research,
industrial consultancy and continuing
education programme. Dr. Nair
guided 12 Ph.D., 11 M.S., 60
M.Tech and 54 B.Tech students.
He taught composites to 2000
students and trained well over
1200 engineers from industry.
He developed the Centre as one
of the top 5 facilities in India
for composites and formulated
the first Post graduate programme
in Composites Technology in
India.
Dr. Nair started NGN Composites
in 2001.
Areas of expertise include Composite
Materials Research and Development,
Process Development, process
modeling and Process Design,
Composite Materials Science,
Structural Mechanics and design,
Design of composite Products
and Structures and Testing and
Quality control.
Worked on the development of
plastic and ceramic matrix composites,
silicon carbide fibres and whiskers,
glass fibre reinforced cement,
flake composites and polymer
concrete. Worked on more than
20 manufacturing processes and
designed and developed more
than 100 composite products.
He was operating for the benefit
of industry a composites test
facility at IITM with facilities
for well over 120 quality control
tests.
Developed an algorithmic approach
for product design, based on
which design algorithms for
several products have been formulated.
Dr. Nair was closely associated
with the National defense and
industrial R&D Programmes
in Composites. He served as
coordinator of India-Japan Collaboration
on Composites and as Head of
the Materials Panel of Naval
Research Board, Govt. of India.
He is a life member of Materials
Research Society of India (MRSI)
and the recipient of the MRSI
Medal, 1997 for his contributions
to composites research. He was
felicitated in 2004 for his
contributions to Defense R&D.
Dr Nair is the Founder Chairman
of FRP Institute and the Honorary
Editor of FRP TODAY, the only
Journal on Composites published
in India. He is closely associated
with the composites industrial
developments in India.
All activities
of NGN Composites are carried
out under the direct guidance
of Dr. N. G. Nair.
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