Dr. Ghulam Ashraf Ul Harmain is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, India. He has served as the Head of the Department and Dean of Research in addition to various important positions at NIT Srinagar. He has been actively involved in teaching and research for the past 35 years in the areas of advanced computational mechanics, fracture and fatigue in structures, thermo-elasticity, tribology and maintenance, large elasto-plastic deformations and experimental solid mechanics.