Namas Chandra (born April 17, 1952) is the retired Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director, Center for Injury Bio-mechanics, Materials, and Medicine at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
He was the director of the Trauma Mechanics Research Initiative and the BioMechanics and Materials Laboratory at UNL.
[1] Chandra's research interests included materials science, mechanics of materials and structures, molecular dynamics, superplasticity, composites, and thermal properties of composites.
[1] His research was on the mechanics of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and their effects on brain tissue.
Chandra's study of traumatic brain injury (TBI) was primarily for the United States military, a major sponsor of the research initiative.