Randolph
(540) 231-7467 (Ran)
csandu@vt.edu
Corina Sandu has been involved in modeling and simulation since 1993. During her graduate studies she developed powertrain models for the National Advanced Driving Simulator, and specialized in modeling multibody dynamic systems, simulating off-road vehicles, and their interaction with unprepared terrain. Her current research concerns vehicle dynamics, tire modeling, stochastic methods to efficiently incorporate uncertainties into multibody dynamics models, soil and off-road terrain modeling, and terramechanics for wheeled and tracked vehicles. She is currently developing a state-of-the-art indoor terramechanics rig with capabilities for testing on hard surfaces, soft soil, and ice.
Dr. Sandu graduated with an Engineer Diploma from the Mechanical Engineering Department at Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, Romania, in 1991. For graduate studies she attended the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Iowa where she specialized in Vehicle Dynamics and Multibody System Dynamics. Dr. Sandu obtained her M.S. degree in 1995 and her Ph.D. in 2000. Between 1999 and 2003 she worked at Michigan Technological University as a visiting/research faculty. Since 2003 Dr. Sandu has been an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Since September 2004, she has also been the Director of the Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory.