Dumitru Caruntu, Ph.D., P.E.

Rank:

Associate 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) 665-2079

Fax:     (956) 665-3527

Email: caruntud@utpa.edu

Website: http://www.utpa.edu/faculty/caruntud/

Education:

• P.E., Mechanical Engineering, National Society of Professional Engineers, 2007
• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 1999
• M.A., B.A., Mathematics, University of Bucharest, 1995
• M.S., B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 1988

Research Interests:

• Nonlinear Dynamics
  
• Biomechanics
• Modeling MEMS and NEMS
  

Selected Publications:

• Caruntu, D., Knecht, M., 2011, On nonlinear response near half natural frequency of electrostatically actuated microresonators, International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics 11 (4), 641-672.
• Caruntu, D., 2009, Dynamic modal characteristics of transverse vibrations of cantilevers of parabolic thickness, Mechanics Research Communications 33 (3), 391-404. 1st of Top 25  4th of Top 25
  
• Caruntu, D., 2007, Classical Jacobi polynomials, closed-form solutions for transverse vibrations, Journal of Sound and Vibration 306 (3-5), 467-494.
• Caruntu, D., 2005, Self-adjoint differential equations for classical orthogonal polynomials, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 180 (1), 107-118. 5th of Top 25
  
• Caruntu, D., 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. 17th of Top 25
  
• 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.