S. Mahalingam (engineer)

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Vidya Jyothi S. Mahalingam

Born	(1926-01-16)16 January 1926 Alaveddy, Ceylon
Died	3 November 2015(2015-11-03) (aged 89) Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Alma mater	Ceylon Technical College University of Sheffield
Occupation	Academic

Selvadurai Mahalingam (16 January 1926 – 3 November 2015) was a Sri Lankan Tamil mechanical engineer and academic.

Early life and family

Mahalingam was born on 16 January 1926 in Alaveddy in northern Ceylon.^[1] He was the son of Selvadurai and Nagamma Sellasaraswathy.^[2] When he was young his family moved to Malaya.^[1] He was educated at Maxwell School and Victoria College in Malaya.^[1] He returned to Ceylon aged 20 and joined Ceylon Technical College in 1946, graduating with a first class B.Sc.Eng. degree.^[1]^[3] He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Sheffield in 1956.^[1]

Mahalingam married Devaki.^[1]^[4]

Mahalingam joined the Engineering Faculty of the University of Ceylon (later University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, University of Peradeniya) when it was established in 1950.^[1]^[3]^[5] In 1958 he wrote highly acclaimed research paper on vibration, Vibration of Branched System: A Displacement Excitation Approach, which was published in the Journal of Applied Mechanics.^[1]^[5] Mahalingam received a D.Sc.Eng. degree from the University of London after which he was promoted to professor.^[1]^[5]^[6] After retirement in 1991 he served as an emeritus professor at the University of Peradeniya.^[6]^[7]

Mahalingam received the Vidya Jyothi honour in 2005.^[8] He died on 3 November 2015 at the private North Central Hospital in Jaffna.^[1]^[5]

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