Alexander Nadareyshvili, PhD
**** ********* ****, *********, **, 40514
ph.: 319-***-****, 859-***-**** E-mail: *****@****.***, *********.*************@*****.***
US person
Objectives: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineer with strong computational and development skills looking for position in
industry/national Lab/Universities.
Professional Profile
• Dynamic research professional with significant and progressive experience involving innovative engineering analytical
skills, finite element programming skills.
• Goal-driven achiever with strong organizational and analytical skills, demonstrated expertise in developing new
algorithms, and the proven ability to assume primary role in completing the projects successfully.
• Capable team player with exceptional interpersonal and collaborative skills to foster performance, along with a
demonstrated talent for analyzing complex programming problems.
• Motivated self-starter with the written communication skills, designing, developing and implementation skills along with
strong work ethic to make a significant contribution to any organization.
EDUCATION:
Moscow State University n.a. M.V. Lomonosov Ph.D. (1993-1997)
Field: Engineering & Applied Science
Moscow State Technical University n.a. N. E. Bauman MS (1982-1988)
Field: Mechanical Engineering
EXPERIENCE:
02/2013-07/07/2014
BELCAN Engineering Corporation Lexington, KY
* Principal Stress Analyst
Projects:
1. Sikorsky S61T, S70, S76 helicopter airframe and rotor components stress/fatigue analysis (NASTRAN/PATRAN,
Fatigue level 1, PASA, hand calc.).
2. Windshield structural analysis (PPJ project, FEMAP)
4. Shell seat units for Boeing 747, 787 aircraft analysis. Static Test plan (ZODIAK project, FEMAP, VB Macro)
11/2011-12/2012
Cobham Mission Systems, Davenport, IA, USA
* Sr. Structural/Stress Engineer/R&D
Project1. Air Refueling system (CDS) PDR/CDR project.
Duties: Stress/structural analysis of:
Hose reel stress and fatigue analysis by FEM and hand calculation (Bruhn, Nu, Shanley).
Design optimization of the CDS components.
KC-46 to CDS interface loads analysis.
Tools: Pro/Engineer, Nastran/Patran, ANSYS
Project2. Body Fuel Thank (BFT) for KC46 and KC-390 PDR project
Duties: Stress/structural analysis of:
BFT stress and fatigue analysis by FEM and hand calculation based on the Boeing Design Manual. KC-
46, KC-390 to BFT interface loads analysis.
Buckling, crippling, strength analysis of the panel (stiffeners, honeycomb structures).
Tools: Pro/Engineer, Nastran/Patran.
05/2010-09/2011
The Center for Computer Aided Design, University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)
* Postdoctoral Research Scholar.
Project 1. Planar redial extension for constitutive modeling of anisotropic biological soft
tissues. Regressive Analysis.(VB, ABAQUS). Publication [2]
Project 2. Image based stress analysis of coiled brain aneurism:
Duties: Principal executor of research projects (managed by Faculty and MD). 2 graduate students consulting scholar.
3DRA Image analysis of coil occluded aneurism growth: reconstruction of aneurism and coil mass geometry
(3D-Slicer).
Computer Aided Stress Analysis of aneurism based on “coil mass-blood” interaction (ANSYS) Generation
of publication [1]
Project 2. Computer Aided stress-strain and buckling analysis of the aortic graft stent.
Development of experimental method to determine a graft stent buckling pressure.
Computer Aided stress-strain and buckling analysis of graft stent (Pro-Engineer, ANSYS). Mutual
conformation of simulation and experiment
11//2008 –05/2010
The University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)
* Visiting Scholar
Project: Image-based simulation of heart valve dynamics.
Duties: Principal executor and co-developer of the new numerical method of computer simulation. Collaboration with 2
co-investigator-faculties.
CT Image analysis of heart valves: reconstruction of point cloud model of the heart valves. (MatLab)
Development of the Matlab programming code:
1. To employ a simple gray-scale-based binary segmentation method of extract points from CT image.
2. Point connectivity and Discrete surface algorithm to form of the point-cloud model of biomechanic- al system.
3. Integrate the developed Matlab code to the FEAP code.
Development of new numerical technics of integration of Hamiltonian system based on discrete- gradient
method (DGM). (FEAP code, UNIX machine)
Computer Aided Stress Analysis heart valves dynamics by new DGM development.Generation of publication [3, 4]
an extension of this method would be useful for crack and damage analysis.
06/2005-11/2008
“Progresstech” ltd. (Moscow, Russia)
*Sr. Stress Engineer
Project1: Fuselage s tress and fatigue analysis of the airplane SuperJet 100 ; Project owner: Company
“SUKHOY”
Duties: 3 junior stress engineers team management
Analysis of fuselage designed construction (CATIA v 5)
Analysis and sort out of finite element models of whole fuselage/wing construction
Performance of static FEA calculation (NASTRAN/PATRAN) of global airplane model.
Hand calculations (members, Joints etc.).
Select the most stressed zones based on FEA analysis and engineering intuition.
Performance of Global-Local FEM static stress analysis most stressed zones (ribs, notch, fitting) to determine
stress concentration.
Fatigue analysis (MSC Fatigue, specific methods).
Stress analysis report generation.
Checking of reports (FEA and conventional analysis) generated by another stress engineers.
Project2: Analysis of Gas Turbine Blades by FEA (ANSYS): Combined thermal and structural analysis. Design
optimization.
01/2000- 06/2005
Mechanical-Engineering Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science. (Moscow, Russia)
*Senior Scientist
Project 1. Strength analysis of protective concrete construction of nuclear reactor during technogeneous disasters.
Project owner: Ministry of Nuclear Energy of Russia.
Duties: 3 junior research scientist team management.
Development of High speed deformation visco-elasto-plastic material model of armo-concrete material
Development of FE (LD-DYNAincorporated) based numerical a lgorithm o f simulation. Verification of the model by
test problem and laboratory experimental results.
Numerical simulation of nuclear reactor’s protective shell failure at airplane crash and explosion of nuclear
reactor. Stress and damage analysis of the protective shell.
Publication [5-7]
Project 2. Static and Dynamic stress-strain analysis of tire (military application)
Project owner: Ministry of Defense of Russia
Duties: Principal executor.
Development of mathematical model: Nonlinear governing equations of tore shell deformation
Analytical solution of governing equations (static case)
Project 3. Erosive failure of turbojet blade under hydraulic loading of fluid colliding particles. Application to the turbojet
PS-90A2.
Project owner: Company “Aerodvygotel” ltd.
Duties: 3 junior research scientist team management
Development of mathematical model: Governing equations of fluid-solid impact dynamics. Development of
numerical integration method of governing equations. Analysis of convergence and accuracy of numerical
method.
Lab. experiment of erosive failure of aluminum samples.
Test problem. Model verification: comparison with test problem lab. experimental results
Applied problem: Erosive failure of turbojet blade.
Stress analysis and optimization of blade and disk of turbojet PS-90A2. Durability analysis.
Publication [8]
Project 4. Mathematical modeling of eye damage at impact interaction with splinter.
Duties: Principal executor. Collaboration with 2 lead scientists.
Computer Aided (LS-DYNA) analysis of penetration of splinter through the eyeball. Definition of mechanical and
physical conditions of damage of eyeball based on stress-strain analysis of cornea and sclera.
Publication [9].
Project 5. Dumping role of the cerebral ventricles at impact loading
Duties: 2 junior research scientist team management
Development of experimental device and methods of measurement to determine share deformations in gel-based
structural analog of brain tissue.
CT image-based reconstruction of skull-brain geometry and FE meshing.
Computer Aided (ABAQUS) stress-strain analysis of brain model: optimization of constitute model of brain tissue
based on the experimental results
Publication [10]
Project 6. Design Optimization of the anchor for pre-stressed armo-concrete construction
Project owner: Company “CTC”
Duties: 2 junior research scientist and 1 research assistant team management
Development of anchor geometry (Autocad).
Development of experimental tools and methods of measurement of the “anchor-concrete” deformation. Computer
Aided Stress-strain analysis of “anchor-concrete”. Correction of the computational model. Constructional
parametric optimization of anchor in pre-stressed “armo-concrete” (ANSYS). Experimental Stress-strain test of
Anchor.
Publication [11].
09/1997-11/1999
S. Rustaveli State University. (City of Batumi, GEORGIA).
*Lecturer
Duties: Teaching of Course of Discrete Mathematics: numerical method in mechanical engineering
Teaching of 2 classes of 25-100 undergraduate students.
09/1988 -12/1992
Rocket Space Corporation «Energy". (Korolov, Moscow Sub.,Russia)
*Mechanical/stress Engineer-Researcher
Duties: stress analyst.
Stress analysis of orbital space stations (whole construction): 3D beam based frame structure static and dynamic
analysis.
Hand and computer calculations. Experimental data processing of dynamic response of the space station.
Correction of the computational model.
Generation of reports
SKILLS:
Analysis: 3D Non-linear Finite Element Analysis, Stress-strain Analysis, Fatigue and durability Analysis, Finite Element
Programming, Metal Forming Processes, Composites, Contact Mechanics, Thermo-mechanical (Stress and Heat Transfer)
Analysis, Large Strain Analysis, Mesh Generation Techniques
Programming: Fortran 90, VB, MATLAB Environment
Software: LS/DYNA3D, ANSYS, COSMOS, PATRAN/NASTRAN, FEMAP, Icepak, Marc,
Adams, MS Office, Operating Windows and UNIX, Pro-Engineer, CATIA V5, SolidWork, MatLab, 3D-Slicer
Languages: Fluent Russian, Georgian
AWARDS:
1. Fulbright Grant 2008-2009
2. Grant of the RUSSIAN FOUNDATION FOR BASIC RESEARCH: project # 07-01-00555-а
3. Grant of the RUSSIAN FOUNDATION FOR BASIC RESEARCH: project # 08-01-00088-а
4. Diploma of the Best Report of the XV International Conference of Young Scientists; Moscow, 2003.
SELECTED PUBLICATION:
D. Hasan, A, Nadareyshvili, A. Hoppe, M. Raghavan “Aneurism sac growth as the etiology of cerebral
1.
aneurysm recurrence after successful coil embolization”. Journal STROKE, 2012;43:866-868
2. M. Raghavan, A. Nadareyshvili, J. Lu “ Planar redial extension for constitutive modelling of anisotropic biological soft
tissues”. International Journal of Structural Changes in Solids, volume 3, number 2, June, 2011, pp.23-31
3. A. Nadareyshvili, K. Chandran, J. Lu “Image-based point cloud Hamiltonian dynamic analysis for biomechanical
systems” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering. 2011 ;27(10):1507-1523
4. A. Nadareyshvili, K. Chandran, J. Lu “Imaged-based explicit Dynamic Simulations in biomechanics”. 10th
International Conference on Dynamical Systems – Theory & Application//Lodz, Poland, 2009.
5. A. Nadareyshvili “Mathematical model of post-critical behavior of the 3D solids at high speed impact dynamical
loading”. Rare Attractors and Rare Phenomena in Nonlinear Dynamics// International Symposium RA08, Riga,
2008. pp. 78-82
6. Nadareyshvili A.I., Petushkov V.A. “ Mathematical modeling of nonlinear deforming and failure process of 3D
bodies at high speed interactions”; Mathematical modeling, vol. 16, No 11. pp. 18-24, 2004. Moscow.
7. Nadareyshvili A.I., Petushkov V.A., Frolov K.V. “Mathematical modeling of bearing capacity and failure of
constructions at high-speed impact”, Engineering & Automation Problems, Vol. 1, pp. 3-10, 2004.
8. Nadareyshvili A.I., Petushkov V.A. “Failure of elastic-plastic solid by high-speed fluid-gas continuum impact”// Journal
Math. Simulation, // Russian Academy of Science, v.12, #10.
9. Nadareyshvili A.I., Petushkov V.A., Frolov K.V. “Mathematical modeling of eye damage at impact interaction with
splinter” Russian Journal of Biomechanics. 2005, vol. 9, No 4 pages 24-31.
10. Nadareyshvili A.I., Petushkov V.A., Frolov K.V. “Dumping role of the cerebral ventricles at impact”, Russian
Journal of Biomechanics. 2006, vol. 10, No 4, pp 31-36.
11. Ananydze G. A., Nadareyshvili A.Y., Petushkov V.A., Frolov K.V. “Optimization of the anchor for pre-stressed armo
concrete”. Engineering & Automation problems. No 1, pp. 5-10, 2006.