Narinder Kumar Gupta (born 22 August 1942 in Mirpur, Jammu and Kashmir, India, (now in Azad Kashmir)), also known as N.
K.
Gupta is Professor of Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi.
Gupta works in the area of large deformations of metals and composites at low, medium and high rates of loading.
His researches stimulate the development of constitutive behaviour of materials, understanding of the basic mechanics of large deformation, design for crashworthiness of road and air vehicles, design for safety in defence applications and in design of metal forming processes.