Engineer Product Development

Ricardo Franklin Mendes de Andrade

Brazilian, *1 years old, married

Av. Heitor Villa-Lobos, 620/174

*****-*** - *** **** *** Campos – SP - Brazil

Tel: 55-12-330*-**** Cel: 55-12-981**-****

act9n4@r.postjobfree.com

Education

D.Sc. Structural Dynamics – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1997. Thesis: “Development of a System for the Experimental Determination of Frequency Response Functions using Single and Multiple Excitation”.

M.Sc. Structural Dynamics – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1989. Thesis: “Dynamic Response Analysis of a Tension Leg Platform Small Scale Model”.

B.Sc. Civil (Structural) Engineer - Federal University of Espírito Santo, 1986.

Work Experience

Embraer – Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica - São José dos Campos-SP

Product Development Engineer

Since September 1999 up to current date

Main Activities:

Planning and coordination of the Certification campaign of aircrafts

Planning and coordination of the Loads and Aeroelasticity test campaign of aircrafts

Coordination of Ground Vibration Tests, In-flight Load Tests, Flight Flutter Tests, and Buffeting Loads Survey

Specialist in instrumentation with straingages, accelerometers, pressure scanners, and pressure transducers applied to aircraft structures

Analysis and correlation of experimental and numerical results using modal analysis techniques

Participation in R&D issues, including loads and aeroelasticity wind tunnel tests, instrumentation development, and analysis techniques implementation

Designated Representative of the Brazilian Airworthiness Authority (ANAC) on behalf of structural dynamic analysis, flutter, buffeting, vibration, and tests.

COPPE/UFRJ - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro-RJ

Research Professor

August 1997 – September 1998

Publications

Dynamic Response Analysis of a Reduced Scale of a TLP, Ney Roitman, Ricardo F.M. de Andrade, Ronaldo C. Batista, Marine Structures, volume 5, number 6, England, pp.491-513, 1992.

Dynamic Response Analysis of a TLP Reduced Scale Model, Ricardo F.M. de Andrade, Ney Roitman, Ronaldo C. Batista, Gilberto Ellwanger, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Offshore Engineering, Pentech Press, London, pp.210-224, 1990.

Development of a System for the Estimation of FRFs using MIMO Technique, Ricardo F.M. de Andrade, Carlos Magluta, Ney Roitman, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Offshore Engineering, Computational Mechanics Publications, England, pp.429-443, 1997.

IT

Experience with Windows, DOS, UNIX, MS Office, MS Project

Programming Languages: FORTRAN, Lab View

Catia basics, MSC Nastran and FEMAP

Language Skills

Portuguese: Native

English: Fluent

German: Fluent (PNdS)

French: Basics

Spanish: Basics

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