Digvijai Singh
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Born | Fluid film lubrication | 11 December 1934
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Digvijai Singh (11 December 1934 – 20 July 2018) was an Indian mechanical engineer and a former vice chancellor of the
Biography
Born on 11 December 1934 in the Indian state of
Legacy
Singh's early researches during his doctoral studies were funded by
Singh sat in the board of directors of the International Road Federation from 1991 to 1994 and, as a founder member of the World Interchange Network, he served as a director of the organization from 1993 to 1996.[4] He was the secretary of the Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA) during 1993–94 and was a member of the Science and Engineering Council of the Department of Science and Technology during 1983–88 and 2000–03. He has been associated with several global and national bodies as a member; governing body of the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (1997–99), committees of World Road Association, Central Board of Railway Research (1986–89, 1998-2000), National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration laboratories (1998-2000), Committee on Auto-Fuel Policy (2001–02) and Apex Committee on Road Construction and Transportation Equipment (2001–04) are some of them. He was a member of the board of governors of the Engineering Council of India (2002–07) and presided the Tribology Society of India from 1998 to 2000. He was the Lead Person of the Fly Ash Mission (FAM) of the Department of Science and Technology and chaired its Technology Advisory Group during 1993–99.[9] He was also the chairman of programme advisory committee on the National Science and Technology Management System (1997–2003) and served as the national coordinator of the engineering sciences section of the Indo-Russian Integrated long term programme of cooperation in Science and Technology. He was closely associated with the Indian National Academy of Engineering; he has chaired the Engineering Education Forum of the academy[16] and is a member of its Forum on Engineering Interventions for Disaster Mitigation.[17]
Death
Professor D. V. Singh died in New Delhi on 20 July 2018.[citation needed]
Awards and honors
The
The Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow in 1981
Selected bibliography
- Tayal, S. P.; Sinhasan, R.; Singh, D. V. (1981). "Analysis of hydrodynamic journal bearings with non-Newtonian power law lubricants by the finite element method". Wear. 71 (1): 15–27. .
- Jain, S. C.; Sinhasan, R.; Singh, D. V. (1983). "Consideration of viscosity variation in determining the performance characteristics of circular bearings in the laminar and turbulent regimes". Wear. 86 (2): 233–245. .
- Soni, S. C.; Sinhasan, R.; Singh, D. V. (1985). "Non-linear analysis of two-lobe bearings in turbulent flow regimes". Wear. 103 (1): 11–27. .
- Prabhakaran Nair, K.; Sinhasan, R.; Singh, D. V. (1987). "A study of elastohydrodynamic effects in a three-lobe journal bearing". Tribology International. 20 (3): 125–132. .
- Singh, D. V.; Sinhasan, R.; Pal, Roshan (1989). "Performance characteristics of an ungrooved big-end bearing with misalignment". Tribology Transactions. 32 (2): 234–238. .
See also
Notes
References
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