Name

Vinay Dayal

Contact Information

Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
2351 Howe Hall
Ames, IA  50011-2271
515-294-0720
515-294-8216
vdayal@cnde.iastate.edu

CNDE Responsibilities

Vinay Dayal is Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Faculty Associate in the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation at Iowa State University.  He received his B. Tech. in Aeronautics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (1972), M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from University of Missouri-Rolla (1982), and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University (1987).  He has been teaching and conducing research at ISU since January, 1989.  Prior to that he was a researcher and teacher at North Carolina A&T State University of Greensboro.  He was a Scientist at Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bangalore, India (1972-1982) and worked in the field of experimental and theoretical stress analysis of aerospace structures.  He has extensive experience in photoelasticity, Moire, holography, and strain gaging.

Dayal’s current research interests are in nondestructive evaluation and wave propagation in composite materials; design, fabrication and testing of composite structures and optical fiber embedded “smart” composite structures.

More information about Vinay Dayal can be found at: 
http://www.aere.iastate.edu/faculty/dayal.asp