Sitaram Rao Valluri (June 25, 1924 – January 23, 2019)[2] was an engineer and scientist noted for his work in metal fatigue.
[3] He completed his doctorate in 1954 at Caltech with a dissertation under Ernest Sechler[4] and stayed thereafter to continue his research work.
In 1963, he won the Wright Brothers Medal with George Bockrath and James Glassco for a paper on the relationship between crack propagation and fatigue in metals.
[5] He later returned to India and joined the Applied Mechanics Department of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where he distinguished himself as a teacher, an outstanding researcher and a pre-eminent authority in the field of metal fatigue.
[8] He was the founder President of the IISc Alumni association in 1976[9] and an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1971.