Amos Gilat, Ph. D., is a Mechanical Engineering Professor at the Ohio State University. Dr. Gilat's main research interests are in the area of plasticity, specifically, in developing experimental techniques for testing materials over a wide range of strain rates and temperatures and in investigating constitutive relations for viscoplasticity. The thrust of his research is on developing correlation between observed material response on the continuum scale and the actual deformation process on the microscopic scale. Dr. Gilat's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and Ford Motor Company.