Dumitru I. Caruntu, PhD, PE
Mechanical Engineering Department,
College of Science and Engineering,
University of Texas-Pan American,
1201 W. University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78541
Phone: (956) 381-2079 Fax: (956) 381-3527
Email: caruntud@utpa.edu
, caruntud2@asme.org
Journal papers:
Caruntu, D., 2009, Dynamic modal characteristics of transverse vibrations of cantilevers of parabolic thickness, Mechanics Research Communications 33 (3), 391-404.
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. Top25
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.
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.
Caruntu, D., 1998, Transverse vibrations of an annular plate of parabolical thickness, Revue Roumaine des Sciences Techniques. Série de Mécanique Appliquée 43 (1), 127-132, © Romanian Academy Press, Bucharest.
Caruntu, D., 1996, Relied studies on factorization of the differential operator in the case of bending vibration of a class of beams with variable cross-section, Revue Roumaine des Sciences Techniques. Série de Mécanique Appliquée 41 (5-6), 389-397, © Romanian Academy Press, Bucharest.
Caruntu, D., 1996, On bending vibrations of some kinds of beams of variable cross-section using orthogonal polynomials, Revue Roumaine des Sciences Techniques. Série de Mécanique Appliquée 41 (3-4), 265-272, © Romanian Academy Press, Bucharest.
Caruntu, D., Hefzy, M.S., Goel, V.K., Goitz, H.T., Dennis M.J. and Agrawal, V., 2003, Modeling the knee joint in deep flexion: Thigh and Calf Contact, Proceedings of 2003 Summer Bioengineering Conference, 459-460, © The Summer Bioengineering Conference Committee.
Conference papers:
Caruntu, D., 2008, IMECE2008-67633 3-D knee biomechanics, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2008, October 31 - November 6, Boston, Massachusetts, ASME-PUBLICATIONS, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Caruntu, D., 2008, IMECE2008-67727 On subharmonic resonances of geometric nonlinear vibrations of nonuniform beams, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2008, October 31 - November 6, Boston, Massachusetts, ASME-PUBLICATIONS, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Caruntu, D., 2008, DSCC2008-14287 On nonlinear forced response of nonuniform beams, Proceedings of ASME 2008 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, October 20-22, Ann Arbor, Michigan, ASME-PUBLICATIONS, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Caruntu, D., 2008, SMASIS08-599 On superharmonic resonances of nonlinear nonuniform beams, Proceedings of ASME 2008 Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems Conference, October 28-30, 2008, Turf Valley Resort, Ellicott City, MD, ASME-PUBLICATIONS, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Caruntu, D., 2007, IMECE2007-43805 On geometric nonlinear vibrations of nonuniform beams, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2007, November 11-15, Seattle, Washington, ASME-PUBLICATIONS, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Caruntu, D., 2007, DETC2007-35032 Transverse vibrations of rectangular plates of linearly varying thickness, ASME Proceedings of International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2007, 21st Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB), September 4-7 Las Vegas, Nevada, ASME-PUBLICATIONS, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Caruntu, D., 2007, DETC2007-35029 Knee joint modeling, ASME Proceedings of International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2007, 21st Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB), September 4-7 Las Vegas, Nevada, ASME-PUBLICATIONS, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Caruntu, D., 2006, IMECE2006-15334 Sensitivity of non-uniform beams in depositing mass process, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2006, ASME-PUBLICATIONS, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Caruntu, D., 2006, IMECE2006-15290 On transverse vibrations of rotating non-uniform beams, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2006, ASME-PUBLICATIONS, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Caruntu, D., Stroe, I., 2005, IMECE2005-80307 Nonlinear vibrations of non-uniform beams including inertia effects,” ASME Proc. of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2005, ASME PUBLICATIONS DE 118 (2), 975-982, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Caruntu, D., 2005, IMECE2005-80903 On transverse vibrations of rectangular plates of unidirectional parabolic thickness variation, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2005, ASME PUBLICATIONS DE 118 (2), 1009-1012, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Caruntu, D. and Shove, C., 2005, IMECE2005-82138 Overview of payload vibration isolation systems, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2005, ASME PUBLICATIONS DE 118 (2), 1149-1156, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Sorohan, S., Parausanu, I., Motomancea, A. and Caruntu, D., 2005, IMECE2005-82252 Dynamic analysis of composite plates, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2005, ASME PUBLICATIONS DE 118 (2), 1157-1160, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Parausanu, I., Sorohan, S., Gheorghiu, H., Hadar, A. and Caruntu, D., 2005, IMECE2005-82254 Improvement of the dynamic behavior of a fan using finite element method, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2005, ASME PUBLICATIONS DE 118 (2), 1161-1168, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Stroe, I. and Caruntu, D., 2005, IMECE2005-80290 Systems stability using weight functions method, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2005, ASME PUBLICATIONS DE 118 (2), 969-974, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Caruntu, D. and Shove, C., 2004, IMECE2004-61005 Launch and on-orbit payload vibration isolation, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2004, Technical Presentation.
Caruntu, D., 2004, IMECE2004-62020 On non-axisymmetrical transverse vibrations of circular plates of convex parabolic thickness variation, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2004, ASME-PUBLICATIONS AMD 255, 335-340, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Caruntu, D., 2004, IMECE2004-61204 Exact solutions for transverse vibrations of beams and plates of parabolic thickness variation, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2004, ASME PUBLICATIONS DE 117, 605-612, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Spanu, C., Caruntu, D., Hefzy, M.S., Goel, V.K., Goitz, H.T. and Dennis M.J., 2003, Contact characteristics of the knee joint in deep knee flexion, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, September 25-27, Toledo.
Caruntu, D., and Hefzy, M.S., 2003, The function of the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments in knee extension exercise, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, September 25-27, Toledo.
Caruntu, D., Hefzy, M.S., Goel, V.K., Goitz, H.T., Dennis M.J. and Agrawal, V., 2003, Modeling the knee joint in deep flexion: Thigh and Calf Contact, Proceedings of 2003 Summer Bioengineering Conference, 459-460, L.J. Soslowsky, T.C. Skalak, J.S. Wayne and G.A. Livesay, eds., © The Summer Bioengineering Conference Committee.
Caruntu, D., Spanu, C. and Hefzy, M.S., 2003, The role of the cruciate ligaments in deep flexion, Proceedings of International Symposium on Ligaments & Tendons., 23, S.L-Y. Woo, F. Jia and Z-M. Li, eds.
Caruntu, D., Hefzy, M.S., Ebraheim, N., Mekhail, A., and Yeasting, R., 2002, IMECE2002-32617 Kinematics of the human pelvis following open book injury, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2002, ASME PUBLICATIONS BED 54, 427-428, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Nemunaitis, G.A., Horn, L.J., Hefzy, M.S., and Caruntu, D., 2002, IMECE2002-33713 Assistive technology and rehabilitation through the continuum health care, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2002, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, November 17-22, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Caruntu, D., and Hefzy, M.S., 2002, A three-dimensional mathematical dynamic simulation of the knee extension exercise: Effects of anterior cruciate ligament injury, Proceedings of the IV World Congress of Biomechanics, © Omnipress, Omnipro-CD™, Calgary, F:\pdffiles\papers\Normal 946.pdf. http://www.asb-biomech.org/abstracts.html
Caruntu, D., 2002, On transverse vibrations’ equation of annular plates of convex parabolic thickness variation, Contemporary Research in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Proceedings of USNCTAM14, Fourteenth US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 589, R.C. Batra and E.G. Henneke, eds., © Virginia Polytehnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, http://www.esm.vt.edu/usncam14/program.pdf
Caruntu, D., 2001, On axisymmetric vibration of annular plate of parabolic thickness variation by factorization of differential equation,” ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2001, ASME PUBLICATIONS DE 111, 341-344, H.R. Hamidzadeh, H. Rahnejat and A.C.J. Luo, eds., © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York.
Caruntu, D., and Hefzy, M.S., 2001, Three-dimensional dynamic modeling of the human knee to include tibio-femoral and patello-femoral joints, ASME Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2001, ASME PUBLICATIONS BED 51, 93-94, B.B. Lieber, editor, © The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York.
Caruntu, D., and Hefzy, M.S., 2001, Dynamic response of the knee joint during a simulated knee extension exercise, IFMBE Proceedings of the International Federation for Medical & Biological Engineering, IX Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing MEDICOM 2001 2, 600-603, R. Magjarevich, S. Tonkovic, V. Bilas and I. Lackovic, eds., © FER, CROMBES,Zagreb,Croatia. http://www.crombes.hr/MEDICON2001
Caruntu, D., 2000, Factorization method in transverse vibrations of rectangular plates of linear variable thickness, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2, 1053-1060, G. Guidati, H. Hunt, H. Heller and A. Hess, eds., © The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Caruntu, D., 2000, Factorization method in nonuniform pipes vibration, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2, 1115-1122, G. Guidati, H. Hunt, H. Heller and A. Hess, eds., © The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Caruntu, D., 2000, On bending vibration of cylindrical gear tooth, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2, 1091-1098, G. Guidati, H. Hunt, H. Heller and A. Hess, eds., © The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Caruntu, D., 2000, On bending vibrations of nonuniform beam of constant thickness and exponential width variation, 4th EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Conference, M. Poitier-Ferry, L.S. Toth, eds., Metz, France, June 26-30.
Caruntu, D., 2000, On axisymmetrical vibrations of annular plate of quadratic thickness variation, Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquim on Computational Methods for Shell and Spatial Structures, IASS-IACM 2000, 296.pdf, M. Papadrakakis, A. Samartin and E. Onate, eds., © ISASR-NTUA CD™, Athens, Greece.
Caruntu, D., 2000, On transverse vibrations of rectangular plate of unidirectional linear thickness variation, Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquim on Computational Methods for Shell and Spatial Structures, IASS-IACM 2000, 113.pdf, M. Papadrakakis, A. Samartin and E. Onate, eds., © ISASR-NTUA CD™, Athens, Greece.
Caruntu, D., 1999, Factorization method in bending vibrations of rotating nonuniform Euler-Bernoulli beams, Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 2053-2058, F. Jacobsen, editor, © The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Caruntu, D., 1999, On nonlinear vibrations of gear tooth, Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 3261-3268, F. Jacobsen, editor, © The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Caruntu, D., 1999, Nonlinear forced response on nonuniform beam with rectangular cross-section and parabolic thickness variation, Proceedings of the EUROMECH Third European Nonlinear Oscillations Conference (3rd ENOC), http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~mps/ENOC/proceedings/Caruntu/, H. True and M.P. Sorensen, eds., © Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Stroe, I., Ceausu, V., and Caruntu, D., 1998, Rotating machinery with variable angular velocity, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Dynamics of Rotor Systems, 24-26 June, Kamenets-Podolsky, Ukraine, 26-28.
Caruntu, D., 1998, On nonlinear vibration of nonuniform beam with rectangular cross-section and parabolic thickness variation, Proceedings of IUTAM / IFToMM Symposium on Synthesis of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, 24, E.E. Lavendelis and M.V. Zakrzhevsky, eds., © Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia.
Caruntu, D., 1998, On bending vibrations of nonuniform pipes with constant thickness, Proceedings of the 15th ECPD International Conference on Material Handling and Warehousing, 3.149-3.153, D.N. Zrnic, eds., © University of Belgrade, Belgrade.
Caruntu, D., 1997, Factorization method in bending vibrations of nonuniform beams, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mechanical Transmissions and Mechanisms, 232-234, © China Machine Press, Beijing.
Stroe, I., Ceausu, V., and Caruntu, D., 1997, On nonplanar beam vibrations including the effects of shearing force and cross-section rotation, Proceedings of the 7th IFToMM International Symposium on Linkages and Computer Aided Design, Theory and Practice of Mechanisms SYROM ‘97 2, 345-350, © Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Caruntu, D., 1997, Factorization method in annular plates vibrations, Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 2855-2862, C.H. Hansen and G. Vokalek, eds., © The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
Books:
Voiculescu, D. and Caruntu, D., 2000, Mécanique Analylitique, © Printech Press, Bucharest (in French).
Caruntu, D. and Voiculescu, D., 1999, Mécanique Générale / Statique, © Printech Press, Bucharest (in French).
Stroe, I., Caruntu, D., Boiangiu, M., Motomancea, A., Dragomirescu, C., Bugaru, M., Crăifăleanu, A., Alecu, A., Iliescu, V., Untăroiu, C., Carp-Ciocârdia, C. D., Voiculescu, L., 2000, Analytical Mechanics / Applications, 2nd Edition, © Printech Press, Bucharest (1st Edition 1997).
Stroe, I., Caruntu, D., Iliescu, V., Voiculescu, L., Alecu, A., Crăifăleanu, A., Dragomirescu, C., Carp-Ciocârdia, C. D., Boiangiu, M., 2000, Kinematics / Applications, 2nd Edition, © Printech Press, Bucharest (1st Edition 1994).
Stroe, I., Carp-Ciocârdia, C. D., Motomancea, A. , Predoi, M. V. , Crăifăleanu, A., Alecu, A., Voiculescu, L., Buracu, V., Iliescu, V., Caruntu, D., Dragomirescu, C., Boiangiu, M., 2000, Dynamics / Applications, 2nd Edition, © Printech Press, Bucharest (1st Edition 1996).
Stroe, I., Buracu, V., Carp-Ciocârdia, C. D., Motomancea, A., Iliescu, V., Alecu, A., Caruntu, D., Voiculescu, L., Dragomirescu, C., Boiangiu, M., Deleanu, D., 2000, Statics / Applications, 3rd Edition, © Printech Press, Bucharest (1st Edition 1993, 2nd Edition 1996).
Simion, F.P., Alecu, A., Boiangiu, M., Bugaru, M., Caruntu, D., Iliescu, V., Orăşanu, N., Predoi, M., Ţărnă, D., Untăroiu, C., 1998, Mechanics for Engineers / Applications, © Bren Press, Bucharest.