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Dr. K.L. Murty Professor North Carolina State University Department of Materials Science & Engineering Email: murty@ncsu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Applied Physics, Cornell University, 1970
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, 1967
M.S., Physics, Andhra University, India, 1963
B.S., (Hons) Physics, Andhra University, India, 1962


Research Interests

Mechanical metallurgy, failure analysis, corrosion and stress corrosion cracking, structure-property relations, embrittlement of nuclear pressure vessel steels, formability of metals, superplasticity, development of crystallographic texture and the resulting anisotrophic properties, mechanical integrity of electronic packaging materials, dynamical behavior of point and line defects in solids using nuclear magnetic resistance.

Selected Publications

• Khaled M. Youssef, Ronald O. Scattergood, K. Linga Murty, and Carl. C. Koch , “Ultra tough nanocrystalline copper with a narrow grain size distribution,” Applied Physics Letters (2004) in print.
  
  
• Y. Zhou, B. Devarajan and K.L. Murty, “Short-Term Rupture Studies of Zircaloy-4 and Nb-Modified Zircaloy-4 Tubing using Closed-End Internal Pressurization,” Nucl. Eng. Design, 228 (2004) pp. 3-13.
  
  
• M.D. Mathew and K.L. Murty, “Nondestructive Monitoring of Structural Materials using Automated Ball Indentation (ABI) Technique,” Nucl. Eng. Design, 228 (2004) pp. 81-93.
  
  
• K.L. Murty, “Effect of c/a-ratio on Crystallographic Texture and Mechanical Anisotropy of hcp Metals,” in proceedings of THERMEC'2003, Madrid , Spain , July 7-11, 2003 ; Materials Science Forum, Vols. 426-432 (2003) pp. 3575-3580.
  
• G. Samba Siva Rao, P.S. Godavarti, S.T. Mahmood and K. Linga Murty, “Plastic Instability and Mechanical Anisotropy of Textured Zinc,” Journal of Testing and Evaluation, JTEVA, Vol.30, No.3, 2002, pp. 197-207.