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K. Linga Murty |
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Director
of Graduate Programs
Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Professor of Materials Engineering
office: 1110 Burlington Engineering Laboratories
phone: 919.515.3657
fax: 919.515.5115
e-mail: murty@ncsu.edu
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| education: |
B.Sc. (Physics)
1962, Andhra University, India
M.Sc. (Physics) 1963, Andhra University, India
M.S. (Materials Science) 1967, Cornell University
Ph.D. (Materials Science) 1970, Cornell University |
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I have been interested
in the deformation, creep, fatigue and fracture behaviors of nuclear
core and pressure boundary materials, with particular emphasis on
structureproperty relationship and effects of radiation exposure.
I am also interested in radiation-enhanced hydrogen transport into
steels used for radioactive waste containers and the subsequent
embrittlement with reference to their integrity. We are actively
pursuing studies on the effects of fabrication processes on crystallographic
texture and the resulting anisotropic mechanical properties of Zircaloy
cladding, with application to the understanding of pellet-cladding
mechanical interaction. One of the major areas of my research is
on the basic deformation mechanisms in materials, and I have been
developing model creep equations to predict the in-service materials'
deformation behavior. In addition, I am interested in the micro
mechanisms of macroscopic crack propagation. These studies involve
mechanical testing, sub structural studies using electron microscopy
and basic deformation model development. One of the research areas
underway is the effect of crystallographic texture, stacking-fault
energy and crystal structure on the anisotropic mechanical deformation
and creep of hexagonal close-packed metals. Other research areas
include in-site NMR studies of the dynamical behavior of point and
line defects in materials during deformation, ball indentation for
non-destructive evaluation of materials' condition in-service and
mechanical integrity of electronic packaging materials. |
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