Dr. Tony Murmu

Personal Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/drtonymurmu/

Postdoctoral Fellow
Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology
Mechanical, Aeronautical and Biomedical Engineering,
MSSI, Materials & Surface Science Institute,
University of Limerick, Limerick
Republic of IRELAND
www.ul.ie
http://www.ircset.ie/

Dr Murmu was earlier Postdoctoral Researcher in College of Engineering, Swansea University, Wales, United Kingdom.
http://www.swan.ac.uk/
http://engweb.swan.ac.uk/~adhikaris/students.html

Dr Murmu was also associated with Welsh Composites Centre (WCC), UK as Composites Research Officer
http://www.welshcomposites.co.uk/

Recent Publications:
"Nonlocal frequency analysis of nanoscale biosensors"
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical (2011)
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/sensors-and-actuators-a-physical/

"Nonlocal vibration of bonded double-nanoplate-systems"
Composites Part B: Engineering (2011)
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/composites-part-b-engineering/

"Mechanisms of Nonlocal Effect on the Vibration of Nanoplates"
Applied Physics Letters (2011) http://apl.aip.org/

"Nonlocal Vibration of Carbon Nanotubes with Attached Buckyballs at the Tip" Mechanics Research Communications (2011).
TOP25 sciencedirect.com article
http://top25.sciencedirect.com/subject/engineering/12/journal/mechanics-research-communications/00936413/archive/31/

Dr Tony Murmu is in Expert Registry in 'Nano Mission', Department of Science &Technology, India
http://nanomission.gov.in/

OVERVIEW:

Winner of "IRCSET (Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology)" Postdoc Fellow for 2011 (Ireland).
http://www.ircset.ie/

Dr Murmu is involved in scientific research for the last five years. He was in the Civil and Computational Engineering Centre (C2EC), School of Engineering, Swansea University as a Postdoctoral researcher from May 2010.
http://www.swan.ac.uk/

He was associated with Welsh Composites Centre (http://www.welshcomposites.co.uk/), UK from Jan 2011 to Oct 2011

Dr Murmu recieved his PhD in Nano-scale structures from Aerospace Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur, India, considered to be the leading engineering institute of India.
http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/

He obtained his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (B.M.E) and Master of Mechanical Engineering (M.M.E) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2004 and 2006 respectively.
http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/

Dr Murmu's 'h-index' - 10 (2009-2010)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index

Dr Murmu's email: murmutony@gmail.com

ResearcherID: A-9792-2009
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Newsletters:
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AWARDS:
For Postdoctoral research, Dr Murmu is funded from the Leverhulme Trust, UK.

During PhD and Master’s study, Dr Murmu was awarded Institute Scholarship, MHRD, INDIA.

Dr Murmu received the prestigious: The President of India Prize, 2010, awarded by the Govt. of India.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
1. Nonlocal Elasticity: Bridging Macrostructure to Nanostructures
2. Understanding structural behaviour at Nanoscale (CNTs and Graphene)
3. Nanocomposites
4. Differential Quadrature Approach to Mechanics
5. Mechanics of Functionally Graded Material

PUBLICATIONS :
(Most of the papers are available in:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/ ;
http://top25.sciencedirect.com/;
http://jap.aip.org/)

[1] C Y Wang, T Murmu and S. Adhikari, “Mechanisms of Nonlocal effect in the Vibration of Nanoplates”, Applied Physics Letters 98[15] (2011), pp. 153101:1-3

[2] Murmu, T. and Adhikari, S., "Nonlocal frequency analysis of nanoscale biosensors", Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical. (2011) (In-press)

[3] T. Murmu, S Adhikari and C Y Wang, Torsional vibration of carbon nanotube–buckyball systems based on nonlocal elasticity theory, Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 43[6] (2011), pp. 1276-1280

[4] T. Murmu and S Adhikari, Nonlocal vibration of carbon nanotubes with attached buckyballs at tip, (2011) Mechanics Research Communication 38[1] (2011), pp. 62-67

[5] Murmu T and Adhikari, S, Axial instability of double-nanobeam-systems, Physics Letters A. 375[3] (2011), pp. 601-608

[6] Murmu T and Adhikari, S, Scale-Dependent Vibration Analysis of Pre-stressed Carbon Nanotubes undergoing Rotation, Journal of Applied Physics, 108[12] (2010), pp. 123507:1-7.

[7] Murmu T and Adhikari S, Nonlocal Transverse Vibration of Double-Nanobeam-Systems, Journal of Applied Physics, American Institute of Physics (AIP) archival journal 108[8] (2010), pp. 083514:1-9

[8] Murmu T and Adhikari S, Nonlocal effects in the longitudinal vibration of double-nanorod systems, Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 43[1] (2010), pp. 415-422

[9] Pradhan, S. C and Murmu T., Small Scale Effect on the Buckling of Single-Layered Graphene Sheets under Bi-axial Compression via Nonlocal Continuum Mechanics, Computational Materials Science, Volume, 47(1), (2009) 268-274.

[10] Murmu T. and Pradhan, S. C., Vibration Analysis of Nano Single - Layered Graphene Sheets Embedded in Elastic Medium Based on Nonlocal Elasticity Theory, Journal of Applied Physics, American Institute of Physics (AIP) archival journal, 105 (2009), 064319

[11] Murmu T. and Pradhan S C, Thermal effect in the stability of embedded carbon nanotubes, Computational Materials Science, 47 (3) (2010) 721-726.

[12] Murmu T. and Pradhan, S. C., Buckling analysis of single-walled carbon nanotubes embedded in an elastic medium based on nonlocal elasticity and Timoshenko beam theory and using DQM. Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 41(7) (2009) 1232-1239.

[13] Murmu T. and Pradhan, S. C., Thermo-mechanical Vibration of a Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Embedded in an Elastic Medium based on Nonlocal Elasticity Theory Computational Materials Science, 46(4) (2009) 854-859.

[14] Pradhan S. C and Murmu T., Vibration analysis of a single-walled carbon nanotubes embedded in an elastic medium based on nonlocal elasticity and Timoshenko beam theory, Journal of Applied Physics, American Institute of Physics (AIP) archival journal, 105 (2009) 124306 (Selected for the volume 20, issue 1 (2009) of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale, Science & Technology)

[15] Murmu T. and Pradhan, S. C., Buckling of Bi-axially Compressed Orthotropic Plates at Small Scales, Mechanics Research Communications, 36(8) (2009) 933-938.

[16] T Murmu and S. C Pradhan, Vibration Analysis of Nanoplates under Uniaxial Prestressed Conditions via Nonlocal Elasticity, Journal of Applied Physics, American Institute of Physics (AIP) archival journal 106 (2009) 104301.

[17] Murmu T. and Pradhan, S. C., Small scale effect on the free in-plane vibration of nanoplates by nonlocal continuum model, Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 41(8) (2009) 1628-1633.

[18] Murmu T and Pradhan, S. C., Small-Scale Effect on the Vibration of Nonuniform Nanocantilever based on Nonlocal Elasticity Theory, Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 41(8) (2009) 1451-1456.

[19] Pradhan, S. C. and Murmu T, Application of nonlocal elasticity and DQM in the flapwise bending vibration of a rotating nanocantilever, Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 42(7) (2010) 1944-1949.

[20] Pradhan, S. C. and Murmu T, Differential Quadrature Method for Vibration Analysis of Beam on Winkler Foundation based on Nonlocal Elastic Theory, Journal of Institution of Engineers (India), Mechanical Engineering Division, 89 (2009) 3-12.

[21] Murmu T and Pradhan, S. C., Vibration and Buckling Analysis of Nano-Scale Beams via Nonlocal Elasticity and Timoshenko Beam Theory: A Differential Quadrature Approach, Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies, 62(1) 2010 40-54.

[22] Murmu T and Pradhan, S. C., Buckling Analysis of Beam on Winkler Foundation by using MDQM and Nonlocal Theory, Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies, 60(3) (2008) 206-215.

[23] Pradhan, S. C. and Murmu T, Thermo-mechanical vibration of FGM sandwich beam under variable elastic foundation using differential quadrature method Journal of Sound and Vibration, 321(1-2) (2009) 342-362.

[24] Pradhan, S. C. and Murmu T., Small Scale Effect on the Buckling Analysis of Single-Layered Graphene Sheet Embedded in an Elastic Medium Based on Nonlocal Plate Theory, Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 42 (2010) 1293-1301. (Book chapter request by http://intechweb.org)

[25] T. Murmu, J Sienz, S Adhikari, Cris Arnold, Nonlocal Buckling of Bonded Double-Nanoplates, Journal of Applied Physics, 2011 (in-press)

[26] T. Murmu, S Adhikari, Nonlocal vibration of bonded double-nanoplate-systems", Composites Part B: Engineering, 42[7] (2011), pp. 1901-1911

International Conference Proceedings:-

27. Shit J, Murmu T, Kumar B M, Chanda A, Nag D, "Study of Small Grain-Size Alumina Ceramics Subjected to Different Magnitudes of Impact Loading: A Fracture Mechanics Approach", Proceedings of the ISAMPE, National Conference on Composites- December 2008, INCCOM-7, Pages 339-345

28. Murmu T. and Pradhan, S. C., Vibration Analysis of Nonuniform Nano-size Beams based on Nonlocal Elasticity Theory and Differential Quadrature Method, Ninth International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICoVP), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 19-22 January 2009, IV B, pg 48.

29. Murmu T. and Pradhan, S. C., Differential Quadrature Model for Stability Analysis of Nano-Scale Structures based on Nonlocal Timoshenko Beam Theory, The Second International Conference on Frontiers in Nanoscience and Technology (Cochin Nano-2009) 3-6 January 2009 Cochin, India. SPP 29, pg 83

30. Murmu T. and Pradhan, S. C., A Modified Differential Quadrature Approach for Beam Vibration under Two-Parametric Elastic Foundation. IISc Centenary – International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (IC-ICAME), Bangalore, India, July 2-4, 2008.

31. Pradhan, S. C. and Murmu T. , Differential quadrature approach for dynamic analysis of beams based on nonlocal elasticity model, Fifth ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems, 24 – 26 July 2008, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Paper ID 9.

32. Pradhan, S. C. and Murmu, T., Thermo-Mechanical Analysis of FGM Sandwich Structures with Differential Quadrature Element Method, International Conference On Multiscale Modeling And Simulation (Icmms’08)’ 2 –4 January 2008, Indian Institute Of Science Bangalore, India

33. Murmu T. and Pradhan, S. C. Thermo-Mechanical Vibration Analysis Of Fgm Beam Using Differential Quadrature Method, Proceedings, International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Applications in Engineering, Technology and Sciences, 13-14 January 2008, Saurashtra University, Rajkot-360005. Gujarat (India), Vol 1, No 1, pp 1-6.

34. Murmu T. and Pradhan, S. C., Analysis of FGM structures with modified differential quadrature method, Proceedings, Fourth International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics (ICTACEM 2007), IIT Kharagpur, 27-29 December 2007, paper No 34, pp 89-91

Reviewer of International Journals Articles

- Journal of the Royal Society Interface
- International Journal of Nanoscience
- NANO
- Physica E, Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
- Super lattices and Microstructures
- Computational Material Sciences
- Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures
- Composites B: Engineering
- Journal of Nanomaterials
- Composites Structures
- Journal of Applied Physics
- Thin Solids Films

Contact Information

Homepage:	http://www.tonymurmu.page.tl/
Address:	Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick (www.ul.ie) Republic of IRELAND
Telephone:	+353871159598 (mobile, Ireland)