Raffaella De Vita, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Engineering Science and Mechanics Department

Virginia Tech
305 Norris Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24060

Phone:  540-231-5905

E-mail: devita@vt.edu
http://www.esm.vt.edu/~devita

EDUCATION:

	M.S., Mechanical Engineering; University of Pittsburgh, 2003
	Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2005

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

	Continuum mechanics with emphasis on solid mechanics
	Constitutive modeling of nonlinear elastic, viscoelastic, and liquid crystals biological systems
	Cardiovascular mechanics, mechanics of ligaments and tendons, cellular mechanics

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

	De Vita, R., Slaughter, W. S., A Structural Constitutive Model for the Strain Rate Dependent Behavior of Anterior Cruciate Ligaments, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 43(6): 1561-1570, 2006.
	De Vita, R., Leo, D. J., Woo, K. D., Nah, C., A Constitutive Law for Poly(Butylene Terephthalate) Nanofibers Mats, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 102(6): 5280-5283, 2006.
	De Vita, R., Slaughter, W. S., A Constitutive Equation for the Failure Behavior of Medial Collateral Ligaments, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 6(3): 189-197, 2007.
	De Vita, R., Slaughter, W. S., A Stochastic Constitutive Model for the Ligament Mechanical Failure, Proceedings of the XXth Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics, August 1-5, 2005, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
	Hopkinson, D., De Vita, R., Leo, D. J., Failure Pressure of Bilayer Lipid Membranes, Proceedings of SPIE: Smart Structures and Materials, February 26-March 2, 2006, San Diego, California, USA.
	De Vita, R., Hopkinson, D., Sundaresan, V. B., Leo, D. J., Continuum Modeling of Bilayer Lipid Membranes, Proceedings of MRS: Mechanics of Nanoscale Materials and Devices, April 17-21, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA.
	De Vita, R., Slaughter, W. S., A Structurally-Based Model for Ligamentous Tissue, Proceedings of DURACOSYS, September 10-13, 2006, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.

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