Simona Socrate d’Arbeloff Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Room: 3-334 Phone: 617.452.2689 Email: ssocrate@mit.edu Web: http://me.mit.edu/people/personal/ssocrate.htm

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995 
PhD, University of Rome, 1991
MSME, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990   
Laurea, University of Rome, 1986

Research Interests

• mechanical behavior of materials: development and numerical implementation of constitutive relationships, micromechanical modeling, fracture mechanics, structure-properties relations for heterogeneous material systems
• mechanics of soft biological tissue, woven and non-woven fabrics, and composites
• constitutive modeling of growth and remodeling in soft tissue
• innovative manufacturing, process modeling and simulation, finite element-based design methodologies

ISN Strategic Research Areas

• Strategic Research Area 03: Ballistic and Blast Protection

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