Jia Lu

Research Highlights

Joined the College of Engineering: 2001

Education:
Ph.D., Solid Mechanics, University of California-Berkeley, 1999
M.Eng., Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, 1988
B.S., Applied Mechanics, Beijing Institute of Aeronautics, 1985

Special Fields of Knowledge:
Biomechanics; Continuum Mechanics; Finite Elasticity; and Finite Element Methods

Research Interests:
Vascular Mechanics; Inverse problem; Computational biomechanics

Selected Publications:
Hyunggun Kim, Krishnan B. Chandran, Michael S. Sacks, and J. Lu, "An Experimentally Derived Stress Resultant Shell Model for Heart Valve Dynamic Simulations," Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 35, 30-44, 2007

J. Lu, X. Zhou, and M.L. Raghavan, "Inverse Elastostatic Stress Analysis in Pre-Deformed Biological Structures: Demonstration Using Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms," Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 40, 693-696, 2007

J. Lu, X. Zhou, and M.L. Raghavan, "Computational Method for Inverse Elastostatics in Anisotropic Hyperelastic Solids," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2007 (in print)

J. Lu and L. Zhang, "Physically motivated invariant formulation for transversely isotropic hyperelasticity," International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 42, 6015-6031, 2005

Lu, J., "Exact expanisions of arbitrary tensor function F(A) and their derivatives,"International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 41, 2004, pp. 337-349

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships:
ASME, USACM