SUSHIL SINGH

Address: *** **** ****** **********, ** 35401 (open to relocate anywhere on

my own expenses)

Tel : 205-***-**** E-mail : abki8q@r.postjobfree.com[pic]

OBJECTIVE: Seeking opportunity as a stress engineer.

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SUMMARY:

- 6 years of hands on experience in hand calculations and problem trouble

shooting in stress analysis, vibration, thermal, fatigue and damage

tolerance analysis of aircraft structural components.

- Proficient in using MSC.PATRAN/NASTRAN, ANSYS, LS-DYNA and ABAQUS FEA

software and CATIA V5 CAD software

- Energetic self-starter with excellent analytical, organizational and

leadership skills. Creative thinker capable of understanding the details

and seeing the "big picture".

- Ability to meet deadlines and manage competing priorities under pressure.

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EDUCATION:

- PhD. - The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, August 2010

Major: Engineering Science and Mechanics.

- M.S. - The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, May 2009

Major: Engineering Science and Mechanics.

- B.Tech - Indian Institute of Technology, India, July 2004

Major: Aerospace Engineering.

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WORK EXPERIENCE:

Research Assistant, July 2007 - August 2010

Stress Analysis Lab

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Duties and Responsibilities:

Job responsibility includes fatigue and damage characterization, and life

prediction of composites under mechanical/environmental loading condition.

- Analytical modeling: Damage modeling of composites using cohesive zone

modeling and debond growth in inhomogeneous materials. Fatigue

modeling of metals to compute cycles to failure given initial flaw size,

perform fatigue testing of test articles to develop S-N

curves, hysteresis loop, high cycle and low cycle fatigue, and residual

stress analysis.

- FEA Modeling: Progressive damage modeling of composites and metals in

ABAQUS using UMAT subroutine.

- Bench mark testing: Viscoelastic shear creep, fatigue, tensile,

compression, flexure, short-beam, thermal-oxidation and SEM.

- Achievement: Developed a multi-scale mechanism based model to predict the

life of composite material subjected to mechanical/environmental loading

condition. Predicted fatigue life of metals under mechanical loading from

S-N curve.

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Research Assistant, July 2005 - May 2007

Structure Lab

Indian Institute of Technology, India.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Involved in development of optimal design of fastening system (steel

material) by enhancing the fatigue life of components.

- Hand Calculation: Root cause analysis and inspection of cracks and damage

of fastening system, 3-D beam analysis and optimization using the genetic

algorithm (GA) tool in MATLAB. Prepared and submitted reports regarding

crack propagation and damage development, necessary actions to be taken

in case of equipment failures and their safety while in use.

- FEA Modeling: Fatigue and damage tolerance modeling and life predciton

using ANSYS.

- Achievement: By optimization the shape of railway track fastening system

54% increase in fatigue life was achieved and 22% cost reduction was

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Research Engineer, July 2004 - May 2005

Structure Lab

Indian Institute of Technology, India.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Designing and modeling of Aircraft Arrester Barrier System (hydraulic

system) for 40 ton aircrafts and performing design reviews, and provide

design recommendations.

- FEA modeling: Simulation of the engagement process in LS-DYNA using

dynamic and transient analysis.

- Hand Calculation: Evaluating designs for possible stress limitations and

suggesting improvements by finding the new design parameters.

Coordinating with outside vendors, helping them in the analysis and

checking their stress reports.

- Cost Estimation: Recommended design modifications to ensure structural

integrity and cost estimations.

- Achievement: Using deliverable code successful arrestment was performed

for SU30MK.

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Intern Engineer, May 2004 - July 2004

Structure Lab

Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore, India.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Job responsibility includes modeling and designing rotor blade with

laminated piezoelectric actuator for vibration control using MSC.NASTRAN.

- FEA modeling: Performed normal mode analysis, transient mode analysis,

frequency mode analysis and stress analysis of the rotor blade in

MSC.NASTRAN.

- Achievement: Successfully reduced the vibration of rotor blade by

significantly amount.

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COMPUTER SKILLS

- CAD: CATIA V5, AutoCAD

- CAE: MSC PATRAN/NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA and Elfini

- Office Applications: Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)

- Programming: C, FORTRAN, MATLAB[pic]

HONOUR AND AWARDS

- Best Ph.D. graduate research award, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics,

UA, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2009.

- Golden Key International Honor Society for outstanding academic

achievement, UA, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2008.

- Academic Excellency award, Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of

Technology, Kanpur, India, 2007.

PUBLICATIONS[pic]

- Roy, S., Singh, S., Scheoeppner, G.A., Modeling of evolving damage in

high temperature polymer matrix composites subjected to thermal

oxidation, Journal of Materials Science, 2008, 43, 6651-6660

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