Nagaraja Iyyer

Dr. Nagaraja Iyyer has 41 years of experience in aircraft structures engineering and application program development. The majority of his experience has been in supporting the US Navy in its aircraft structural life surveillance programs and service life assessment and extension programs for various aircraft. Dr. Iyyer has conducted numerous risk assessment studies to support safety of flight decisions for various aircraft components. His current interests are in developing reliable life prediction models for engineers and management, identifying and mitigating age-related problems, and developing new damage detection techniques. Dr. Iyyer has won many awards during his career, including the 2006 Naval Air Warfare Center Division’s Area Commander’s Award for his groundbreaking development of a probabilistic risk assessment methodology and metrics to quantify the risk of continued US Navy P-3 flight operations.