Pradeep Rohatgi
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Pradeep K. Rohatgi | |
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| Born | 14 August 1943 |
Pradeep K. Rohatgi (born 14 August 1943) is a professor of materials engineering, and director of the Center for Composites at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
In India Institute of Technology, Kanpur he pioneered incorporating renewable materials such as coir(fiber from coconut shell), banana and sial plant fiber into composites. "The solidification processing of metal-matrix composites: The Rohatgi Symposium." [1] This first creation of a cast metal matrix composite material is considered a landmark in the 11,000-year history of metal casting[2] Rohatgi served as founding director of the Regional Research Laboratories (CSIR) at Trivandrum and Bhopal, and as a professor at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he worked on incorporating renewable materials such as coir (fiber from the coconut shell), and banana and sisal plant fibers into polymer composites.[3]
