My Publications
Books
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Breakthroughs!
P. Ranganath Nayak and John M. Ketteringham, Breakthroughs! Rawson Associates 1986 ISBN 0-89256-294-3. 2nd edition, 1987. 3rd edition,1994.
This is my first book. In it John Ketteringham and I tell the stories of blockbuster innovations such as Post It notes, the microwave oven, and the VCR, and the people that produced them. Hard copies of Breakthroughs! can be found on the web. Or you can download a free electronic copy from this website.
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Product Juggernauts
Jean-Philippe Deschamps and P. Ranganath Nayak, Product Juggernauts, Harvard Business School Press 1995 ISBN 0-87585-341-7
I wrote this with Jean-Philippe Deschamps. In this book, we describe how companies can enhance competitive strategy through new product innovation.
Product Juggernauts, and more information about it, is available at amazon.com.
Selected peer-reviewed publications
P. Ranganath Nayak, Line Admittance of Infinite Isotropic Fluid-Loaded Plates. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1970; 47 (1): 191-201
P. Ranganath Nayak, Random Process Model of Rough Surfaces in Plastic Contact. Journal of Lubrication Technology, Trans. ASME 1971; 93 (3): 398-407
P. Ranganath Nayak, Surface-Roughness Effects in Rolling Contact. Journal of Applied Mechanics, Trans. ASME 1973; 39: 456-460
P. Ranganath Nayak, Contact Vibrations. Journal of Sound and Vibration 1972; 22 (3) 297-322.
P. Ranganath Nayak, Random Process Model of Rough Surfaces. Wear 1973:305-333.
P. Ranganath Nayak, Some Aspects of Surface Roughness Measurement. Wear 1973: 3: 165-174
P. Ranganath Nayak, Contact Vibrations of a Wheel on a Rail. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 1973; 28 (2) 277-293
P. Ranganath Nayak, Linearized Contact Vibration Analysis, IUTAM Symposium on the Mechanics of the Contact between Deformable Bodies (Enschede, The Netherlands, August 20-23, 1974).
The Proceedings of the Symposium, edited by A.D. de Pater and J.J. Kalker, have been published by Delft University Press, 1975.
P. Ranganath Nayak, The Challenge of Urban Growth to Indian Local Government. 1960 Berkeley Article by P. R. Nayak, ICS.