Mechanical Engineer Gas Turbine

Luca Giacobone (Mechanical Engineer)

La Spezia, Italy, 17th of December 1982

Place/date of birth:

Country of residence: England

Residence address: Flat 48 – Jessop Court

Ferry Street

BS16HP

Bristol (UK)

Mobile: 075********

Email: ******@******.**

Luca Giacobone (Mechanical Engineer)

Personal Profile

I am an experienced mechanical engineer with vast experience in gas turbines. As part of the thermal

team I get on with all the team members setting up personal goals and very focused and determined in

achieving them. I am considered within my team and by the management of my company as a very

well organised person and keen on learning new technical skills.

I have granted a SC (Security Clearance) from the UK Ministry of Defence which is valid until

February 2017.

I am working towards the Imeche chartership, the Academic Review has been successfully passed and

an interview to become a Chartered Engineer will be conducted shortly.

Academic Experience

(BSc) Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of Genoa in 2006

(MSc) Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of Genoa in 2009

Thesis for the MSc has been awarded with the “GSE Scholarship 2011 - Italian Quality Committee”,

the ceremony was held by the President of the Italian Republic into his official residence (Quirinale

Palace, Rome) in January 2012.

Professional Experience

Assystem UK Ltd, Bristol, Gas Turbines Department, Senior Thermal Engineer, March 2012 to

present

As a part of the Thermal Team, I am Team Leader of the Bristol team (3 engineers) and within the Gas

Turbine Department, I have developed my experience within the following technical skills:

•Thermo-mechanical analysis on aircraft engines.

•Thermal matching exercise by using test data.

•HPC & IPC tip clearances analysis.

•Axial and radial displacement analysis.

•Combustion chamber, Combustor Chamber Outer Casing, Inter-Case, HPC casing 2D & 3D

thermal model creation.

• FEM and modelling of cooling system through specific tools.

• Strong experience in NX (UG) Modelling and Meshing.

• Technical reports writing and Power Point presentations of the results.

• Assystem UK Technical Signatory Approval Authorisation for Gas Turbines in the following

categories:

• Checking of Thermal Reports

• Technical Communication Approval

• Present a lecture on “3D Thermal Modelling”

CFD Engineering, Genoa, Thermal Engineer, August 2009 to February 2012

As a part of the small team of consultants I have developed my experience within the following

technical:

• 2D & 3D Thermal analysis.

Luca Giacobone (Mechanical Engineer)

• Gas turbine blades and vanes cooling systems design

• Software development.

• Technical Literature.

2D & 3D Thermal analysis

• Research on heat transfer coefficient correlations available on technical literature and fit for

thermal analysis purpose

• Thermal loads assessment with in-house code, used for gas turbine parts.

• Solid experience in Solid Edge for 2D & 3D modelling of gas turbine static and rotating

components

• Combustion Chamber 3D Thermal Modelling.

• Technical reports writing and Power Point presentations of the results.

Gas turbine blades and vanes cooling systems design

• Gas turbine blades and vanes cooling systems design and modelling.

• Combustion Chamber cooling system design and modelling.

• Solid experience in Solid Edge for 2D & 3D modelling of gas turbine static and rotating

components

• Technical reports writing and Power Point presentations of the results.

Software development

• Development of programming language to calculate heat transfer for gas turbine static and

rotating components.

• Macro in APDL to apply thermal and structural loads onto Ansys FEM

• Macro in Octave to automate the pre and the post-processing for thermal analyses.

Technical literature

Bozzi L., Giacobone L., Perrone A., 2012, “Procedure for Calculation of Component Thermal

Loads for Running Clearances of Heavy-duty Gas Turbines”. Proc. for ASME Turbo Expo 2012,

June 11-15, Copenhagen, Denmark; (GT2012-68184)

A paper which describes an integrated procedure to assess thermal loads and, consequently, running

clearance for a Heavy Duty Gas Turbine. The two procedures for heat transfer analysis and evaluation

of clearances have been validated against experimental data in several operating conditions. In

particular, relative and absolute movements of rotor and turbine casing have been measured by proxy-

meter probes located into the turbine bearing casing.

From:

ASME Turbo Expo 2012: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition

Volume 4: Heat Transfer, Parts A and B

Copenhagen, Denmark, June 11–15, 2012

Course Attended

Combustion Chamber Thermal Modelling – September 2010 – CFD Engineering Srl (course held

by UNIFI, University of Florence)

Gas Turbine Blade & Vane Cooling System– October 2010 – CFD Engineering Srl (course held by

UNIFI, University of Florence)

Fracture Mechanics – October 2011 – CFD Engineering Srl

Luca Giacobone (Mechanical Engineer)

Several Mechanical Integrity Lectures – Assystem UK Ltd

Acusolve Training Course – 09th July 2013 – Assystem UK Ltd

SC03 Stress Training Course – 09th July 2013 – Assystem UK Ltd

Ansys Mechanical APDL Introduction Part 2 – 18-19th June 2014 – Assystem UK Ltd

IT Experience

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux

MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

CAD

Solid Edge (3 years of experience)

Unigraphics NX7.5 (3 years of experience)

FEA

SC03 (thermal and displacement analyses) (3 years of experience)

Ansys Workbench (3 years of experience)

Languages

Italian: Native

English: Advanced:

FCE Certificate – First Certificate in English – (CEFR Level B2: vantage) – June 2012

CAE Certificate – Certificate in Advanced English – (CEFR Level C1: operational proficiency) –

June 2013

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