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Dr. Simona Socrate

Senior Lecturer
MITx Digital Learning Scientist, Digital Learning Lab

Primary DLC

Department of Mechanical Engineering

MIT Room: E25-406
(617) 452-2689
https://openlearning.mit.edu/about/our-team/simona-socrate

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Mechanical Behavior of Materials
Development and Numerical Implementation of Constitutive Relationships, Micromechanical Modeling, Fracture Mechanics, Structure-Properties Relations for Heterogeneous Material Systems
Mechanics of Fabrics, Composites, Soft Biological Tissue
Innovative Manufacturing: Flexible Fabrication, Sheet Forming, Process Modeling and Simulation, Finite Element Based Design Methodologies

Research Summary

Dr. Socrate has an extensive background in core mechanics competencies such as the foundations of continuum mechanics, micromechanical modeling of materials, and numerical simulation. Recently, she has begun to apply the tools of micromechanical and constitutive modeling to soft biomaterials such as cartilage. She brings expertise in constitutive modeling of soft materials such as polymers and biomaterials, advanced computational mechanics and analysis of manufacturing processes.

Recent Work

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