senior FEA engineer
Resume:
Atalolo Dagba
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Cell : 313-***-**** Email : abohph@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE
Lead CAE Analyst position
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Strong and diversified experience in Applied Mechanics (non linear/ stress
analysis and impact problems) -FEA codes (LS-DYNA, RADIOSS, PAMCRASH,
NASTRAN, ABAQUS, LS_POST, HYPERMESH )
TESTING and CORRELATION
?Technical Specialist Engineering Company May11-Jan13
(HYPERWORKS-LS-DYNA-RADIOSS-ABAQUS)
Focus Weight Reduction design, manufacturing and performance
(participation in ) AKSTEEL-FORD
Side impact and roof crush / ultra high strength steel and Optimization of
Ford Fiesta AKSTEEL-FORD
Pedestrian safety: Adult and Child Head-form development and Hood
Optimization AKSTEEL-FORD
Inertial Relief and curb forces on a military vehicle (ABAQUS)
BENTELER
Full bus J45000 frontal crash and Curb impact
Motor Coach Industries
? CAE crash Engineer Ford /Bartech Contract position
Sept10-May11
Frontal / offset crash of full vehicle- (HYPERWORKS-RADIOSS)
?Application Development Engineer Shape Corp
Mar10-Sept10
Cold rolled steel and bumper design /
Development of Pedestrian legform ;Test and simulation
?Training Multi Body dynamics ( Adams..) @Altair (MI)
Mar09
?Advanced Development Engineer @Hydro Automotive Structures (MI)
Jul08-Dec08
in charge of special projects Design of structures in aluminum for
car and integration
( Bumper, engine cradle..) (HYPERWORKS LsDYNA)
?Senior Design Analyst @Benteler Automotive (MI)
Apr01-Jun08
Implementation of IT high performance environment for crash
analysis
FEA analyst and Assistant manager for crash test lab (HYPERWORKS
LsDYNA)
Ultra high strength steel - Post forming heat treated and hot
stamped automotive structures
for frontal and side impacts protection : door beam, A/ B-pillar
reinforcement, bumper.
Design constraints: energy absorption, vibration, crack/ failure
/Weld/Heat Transition zone
Component design - FEA evaluation - Subsystem definition /
Integration into full car -
Correlation with test results for quasi static and dynamic impact (
FMVSS, CMVSS, IIHS )
- Project examples:
o Door Beam programs for major auto OEM: GM GMX265,
GMT345, 381, 9xx.;
Chrysler -DS program
o TRB (tailored roll blank or variable thickness blank based
structures :B-pillar reinforcement ) MK and PM program for
DCX / spot-weld and failure analysis
o Bumpers Nissan L42H, Mazda J61...Ford F150 Body
reinforcement for roof crush
? Senior Project Engineer on contract @ GM Technical Center Warren (MI)
Sep95-Apr01
for ESI & EASI Engineering (HYPERWORKS LsDYNA- PAMCRASH)
Full car frontal and side impact analysis including dummies
- W-Car ( Impala, Grand Prix, Monte Carlo) platform side impact
Safety Analysis
Correlation with Test Results (CTR) HIII and SID dummies from
FTSS
Improvement in LINCAP, FMVSS214 and Dynamic Pole impact
Airbag development : Sensing and firing time ; bag shape,
folding pattern influence
and inflator type. Subsystem development for quick analysis
turn around
- Integration study frontal crash : Corvette (Pamcrash), U-Van
? Consulting Engineer Self Employed
Jan91-Aug95
Transportation industry projects ( PAMCRASH)
- Toyota Technical Center (Higashi Fuji, Japan)
Side impact study of CAMRY car model
- Mitsubishi Motor Corporation (Okazaki, Japan)
Frontal full car crash including HIII dummies and driver airbag.
- Sollac (La Defense, France) French special steel company
High strength steel use in small size car design (SMART)
Front rail and side structure optimization
Full car analysis with HIII dummy ; Side impact with Eurosid
Suspension system analysis using explicit code in quasi static
- Gec Alsthom (Belfort, France)
Crash of TGV ( high speed train) chassis impacted by moving
rigid wall and CTR
Crash of TGV against a rigid wall
- ESI- Engineering Systems International (Rungis, France)
PAMCRASH new version Quality Assurance
- Ecole Centrale Nantes Laboratoire de Crash (France)
Design of Energy Absorbing components (steel, aluminum and composite
material)
for railway structures
?Crash Analysis Group Lead Engineer @ ESI Engineering (Rungis France )
Jan87-Dec90
In charge of :
Pamcrash user support (US) and User Training (UT) 3 months
including
. software installation / interface
. introduction to impact and code theoretical
background
. component and full car frontal crash analysis and
CTR )
Customer Engineering Study (ES) on site
Activity Base : Japan
FIAT ES + CTR CRF Orbassano Italy 6
months
TOYOTA UT TMC Toyota City Japan 3
months
DAIHATSU UT DMC Ikeda Japan 3
months
SUBARU ES FHI Ohta Shi Japan 2months
HONDA US HTC Utsunomiya Japan 1 month
MAZDA ES MMC Hiroshima Japan 3
months
HYUNDAI UT HMC Ulsan Korea 3
months
?Senior Application Engineer @ ESI Engineering (Rungis France)/
PAMCRASH Jan85-Dec86
Full Frontal crash of car model BX (CTR) Peugeot
1987
Full Frontal crash of car model Polo (CTR) Volkswagen
1986
Drop Test Simulation.: Nuclear reactor by-product container CEA-DAM
1985
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique DAM France
?Research and Development Engineer @ ESI Engineering (Rungis France )
Jan82-Dec85
- Constant time step algorithm in hydrocode by Dr Haug and Dagba
- Implicit and explicit integration applied to industrial crash
analysis
- Hydrocode (EFHYD/PAMCRASH, DYNA, RADIOSS) benchmark
by JRC (Joint Research Committee- EEC) Box beam crash
- Ship collision : Evaluation of deformation energy in various ship
collisions with a tanker
Analytical evaluation method in collaboration with Dr
Wierzbicki of MIT
FEA Validation with EFHYD /PAMCRASH
- Helicopter fuel tank protection in a low speed crash event
(Aerospatiale -Marseille France)
?Application Engineer @ ESI - COTRAV Versailles France
Sept80-Dec81
- Programming:
. Oil extraction pump determination on field computer (
POMTIG)
(TOTAL) Issy les Moulineaux France
- Nuclear reactor safety
. Linear and non-linear implicit analysis ( ASME safety rules for
nuclear reactor)
Softwares: TEDEL, ARGUS/ PAMNL/ NOVNL, PIPDYN
Nuclear Reactor pipe and connection system creep fatigue,"banana" effect analysis
(Modal analysis/seismic and thermal loads)
Surregenerateur Superphenix Novatome Le Plessis Robinson
(France)
Reacteur Cadarache / Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique
DEMT Saclay
? EDUCATION
- Master in Mechanical Engineering
Jul80
Diplome d'ingenieur en mecanique de l'Ecole Nationale Superieure
de Mecanique
Nantes (France) now Ecole Centrale Nantes
- BSc. Mechanical Engineering
Jun78
Maitrise de Mecanique de l'Institut de Mecanique des Fluides
(IMF) /
Universite d'Aix Marseille France
? OTHERS
- Languages : English & French fluent Spanish : average Italian :
basic
- Computer language Basic, Fortran
- PATENTS:
. US patent .7066509 B2
June 27, 2006
Energy absorption impact system and method for vehicle
bumpers and the like.
. US patent 7093886 B2 Aug 22,
2006
Vehicle door beam with reinforced tab and method for making
the same.
- PUBLICATION
. Numerical techniques, experimental validations and
industrial applications of structural impact and
crashworthiness analysis with supercomputers for the
automotive industries (Zurich 1986)
(Proceedings of the International Conference on
Supercomputer Applications in the automotive industry)
Chedmail et Al, E. Haug, A. Dagba
. Industrial simulations using the PAMCRASH code
(Supercomputing in engineering structures
Computational mechanics 1989)
E. Haug, A. Dagba, J. Clinckemaillie, F. Aberlenc
- REFERENCES:
Supervisor: Joseph Kollaritsch Engineering manager
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Colleague: Alix Cauvin Lead Engineer
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Supervisor: Tim Parr Director of Engineering
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Customer Shawn Morgans Body Structure Technical
Leader abohph@r.postjobfree.com
Global Core Manager
Cell/Pager: 313-***-****
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