Judha Purbolaksono is currently working with University of Malaya for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was born in a small town, Ngawi, Jawa Timur, Indonesia. Alhamdulillah, he is presently given an opportunity to sit in the Editorial Board Member for Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis (CSEFA), Elsevier B.V. After graduating from a high school (SMA Negeri 3, now named SMU Negeri 2) in Ngawi (in 1989), he pursued a further study and alhamdulillah received a bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 1995. Then, he joined Indonesian Aircraft Industries Ltd. (PT. IPTN/ Dirgantara Indonesia/ Indonesian Aerospace Ltd), Bandung, Indonesia as a Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics engineer from 1995 to 1999. Alhamdulillah, while working with PT. IPTN, he was given a sponsorship by Ministry of National Education, Indonesia, through URGE (University Research for Graduate Education) programme for pursuing master degree in Mechanical Engineering at Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), Indonesia (completed in 1998). In October 1999, alhamduluillah, he was awarded a prominent PhD studentship from the Queen Mary and Westfield Research Council, University of London, and alhamdulillah he successfully accomplished his PhD in Computational Mechanics in 2003.  Prior to joining Universiti Tenaga Nasional in July 2004, he was working as a visiting researcher at Inter University Center, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. With the permissions of Allah SWT, he has been grateful to have some articles and works in the areas of failure analysis, fracture mechanics, finite element and boundary element, computational structural mechanics and structural modeling. Nothing exists without the wills of Allah SWT. He is hoping some of his works are useful and beneficial to the people working in the respective fields, insya Allah. He is seeking more spiritual life referring to the principles in Islam (Al-Quran and Sunnah Rasul), insya Allah. His idol is Prophet Muhammad SAW, the messenger of Allah and the greatest ever person in the world. Oh Allah, bestow blessings upon Prophet Muhammad and his family, companions and allies. Let us always refer to Al-Quran and Sunnah Rasulullah to guide our daily life while the end of the world is approaching .