Dumitru Caruntu, Ph.D., P.E.
Rank:
Assistant Professor
Contact Information:
Address:
The University of Texas-Pan American
Mechanical Engineering Department
1201 W. University Dr.
Edinburg, TX 78539-2999
Office: SCIE 3.124
Phone: (956) 381-2079
Fax: (956) 381-3527
Email: caruntud@utpa.edu
Website: http://www.utpa.edu/faculty/caruntud/
Education:
- PhD Mechanical Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 1999
- BA, MA Mathematics, University of Bucharest, 1995
- BS, MS Mechanical Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 1988
Research Interests:
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
- Biomechanics
- Modeling MEMS and NEMS
Selected Publications:
Caruntu, D., 2009, Dynamic modal characteristics of transverse vibrations of cantilevers of parabolic thickness, Mechanics Research Communications 33 (3), 391-404. PDF Top25 Hottest Articles
Caruntu, D., 2007, Classical Jacobi polynomials, closed-form solutions for transverse vibrations, Journal of Sound and Vibration 306 (3-5), 467-494. PDF
- Caruntu, D., 2005, Self-adjoint differential equations for classical orthogonal polynomials, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 180 (1), 107-118. PDF Top25 Hottest Articles
- Caruntu, D. and Hefzy, M.S., 2004, 3-D anatomically based dynamic modeling of the human knee to include tibio-femoral and patello-femoral joints, ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 126 (1), 44-53.
- Hefzy, M.S., Ebraheim, N., Mekhail, A., Caruntu, D., Lin, H., Yeasting, R., 2003, Kinematics of the human pelvis following open book injury, Medical Engineering and Physics 25 (4), 259-274. Top25 Hottest Articles
- Caruntu, D., 2000, On nonlinear vibration of nonuniform beam with rectangular cross-section and parabolic thickness variation, Solid Mechanics and its Applications 73, 109-118, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London.
