Valeria La Saponara, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering


Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616-5294

Phone: 530-754-8938
Email: vlasaponara@ucdavis.edu

Research Interests

Applied mechanics of composite materials:

  • Manufacturing and Design
  • CAD/CAE Modeling
  • Destructive testing (under impact, static, fatigue and temperature loading)
  • Nondestructive testing (C-scan and contact ultrasounds) and structural health monitoring


News
2007 NSF CAREER Award

In this project, I will be collaborating with Dave Horsley, assistant professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, UC Davis, Lijuan 'Dawn' Cheng, assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis, and Wahyu Lestari, assistant professor of Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Renee Maldonado, director of the Student Development and Recruitment Program of the College of Engineering, UC Davis, will assist with the educational plan of the CAREER.