Jia Lu
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Researcher
Center for Computer Aided Design
2137 Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Telephone: (319) 335-6405
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, Plasticity, Finite Element Methods.
Present 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, 35(30-44), 2007.
- Lu., J., X. Zhou, and M. L. Raghavan, "Inverse elastostatic stress analysis in pre-deformed biological structures: demonstration using abdominal aortic anuerysms. Journal of Biomechanics, 40(693-696) 2007.
- Lu., J., X. Zhou, and M. L. Raghavan, "Computational method for inverse elastostatics in anisotropic hyperelastic solids," International for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2007.
- Lu, J., and L. Zhang. "Physically motivated invariant formulation for transversely isotropic hyperelasticity," International Journal of Solids and Structures, 42(6015-6031) 2005.
- J. Lu, "Exact expansions of arbitrary tensor function F(A) and their derivatives," International Journal of Solids and Structures, 42 (337-349) 2004.
Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: Member of ASME.