CAE resume

Nikhil U. Taralekar

**** **** *** *** #****, Detroit, MI 48201

313-***-**** ***************@*****.***

Objective: Seeking a position in Mechanical Engineering with interest in Finite Element Analysis/CAE and Product Design.

Proficient using CAE tools like Hypermesh, Optistruct, and ABAQUS

Experience in static linear, nonlinear analysis and also dynamic nonlinear analysis

Experience Using Ls-Dyna, for automotive Crashworthiness and Occupant safety

Hands-on experience creating mechanical design drawings using SolidWorks and Catia

Strong team collaboration skills and also capable of handling multiple projects at a same time

EDUCATION

Masters of Science, Mechanical Engineering May 2015

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA G.P.A.: 3.33

Bachelor of Engineering, Production Engineering June 2012

Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India G.P.A.: 3.40

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Designing Softwares : CATIA, Solidworks, Unigraphics

CAE and FEA Tools: Hypermesh, Optistruct, ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS- DYNA

MS Office Suites: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

EXPERIENCE

Information Services, Academic/ Administration Building, Wayne State University (June 14 – May 15)

Technical Support - Student Assistant

Responsibilities:

Assisted Alumni and Development affairs with technical expertise.

Trouble shooting problems caused in office equipment.

Handled network troubleshooting, new software installation, hardware inventory management and Data verification/validation

Miven Mayfran Conveyors Pvt. Ltd., Hubli, Karnataka, India (March 13 – July 13)

Project Engineer

Duties

Designing Conveyor according to clients’ requirements.

Analyzing and testing of conveyor prototype.

In addition was also responsible in installing conveyor on client’s site, Training client’s operators, and providing break down solutions.

Bosch India Ltd., Nashik (May 11 – June 11)

Assisted designing and manufacturing process of specialized gauges (Messplatz) and validating gauges capability.

Also worked on assembly line of CRI and DSLA nozzles.

GRADUATE ACADEMIC PROJECTS

1)Predicting the fatigue life of solder balls in completely filled and bare chip flip-chip packages to understand the effects of underfill material with both linear and nonlinear material properties. (Static) ( Jan 14 – May 14)

•Hypermesh 11 was used for meshing and Post processing was done in Abaqus 6.10

•Meshing was done in coarse, fine and very fine models and then results were compared.

2)Establishing a relationship between friction coefficient and plastic strain per pass, and the uniformity of the strain per pass for different corner fillet radius equiangular extrusion process. ( Dynamic Nonlinear) ( Jan 14 – May 14)

•Hypermesh 11 was used for meshing and Post processing was done in Abaqus 6.10

3)Designing and modelling full assembly of automobile clutch. (May 14 – June 14)

In which Unigraphics was used for modelling and assembling different parts of clutch assembly to make final model.

4)Assessment of Crashworthiness of vehicles and potential injury in Frontal Crash as tested by NHTSA- FMVSS 208 & NCAP. (Aug 14 – Sep 14)

The project aims at identifying the capacity of the vehicle structure to absorb crash energy in frontal crash as tested by NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) using FMVSS 208(Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards) and NCAP (New Cap Assessment Program).

Studied the vehicle behavior after impact for its crash pulse, energy balance, deformation, velocity profile and rigid barrier force. Validated test results by comparing them with results available for FMVSS and NCAP with NHTSA using LS-Prepost as post-processor.

Results from both the procedures FMVSS 208 & NCAP were graphically compared to infer the general trend distinction. Some of them include mass v/s avg. acceleration, mass v/s barrier force, and mass v/s max. crush of vehicle

5)Rollover crash simulation-quasi static roof crush and dynamic drop test. (Sep 14 – Dec 14)

Aimed at severity of rollover crash on critical components of a full vehicle.

Full car model of Ford Taurus 2004 was re-meshed with components of probable degree of critical rollover crash simulation and an introductory run of 1ms was simulated to confirm successful run.

Analyzed the behavior of the critical components of a car involved in quasi static roof crush as in FMVSS 216 and Dynamic drop test as in MALIBU II procedure, using LS-Dyna and Hypermesh solver package.

Formulated crush specific sensitive components For Dynamic Roof Crush, using Taguchi Array, by altering yield stress of 5 components.

6)Modeled a vehicle S-rail & analyzed its behavior under impact with rigid wall along with examining the relation between reaction force and time at various impact velocities. Assessed the effect induced by strain hardening in S-rail on the reaction force. (Aug 14 – Sep 14)

UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS

1)Project Title – Product Designing and manufacturing of a multipurpose and cost effective agricultural implement.

Focused on replacing manual labor, currently used in performing various operations, by the machine. It also focused

on performing a wide range of operations using a single machine by using different attachments. The modeling was

done using CATIA V5R16. ANSYS was being used for stress analysis. Force and stress calculations were done by

Analytical method. (Nov 11 – April 2012)

2)Mini Project - Built a working model demonstrating the ‘Differential gear mechanism’. The model is now used in the ‘Theory of Machines’ laboratory to demonstrate the working of epicyclic gear trains and differential gear mechanism to the forth coming batches (Jan 10 – April 10)

SEMINARS AND PAPERS PRESENTED

1.)Cost and quality improvement of butterfly valve body casting using full mold casting process ( presented in second National Conference at SVNIT, Surat)

2.)Research paper on Fiction Stir Welding.

3.)Casting simulation

4.)Case study on designing of master grip chuck.

REFERENCES

1.)Dr. Trilochan Singh

Professor, Director Mechanical Engineering Graduate Studies

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

Phone: 313-***-**** (office)

2.)Prof. Min Jie

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

Phone: 313-***-**** (office)

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