R&D Engineer

Chunbo (Sam) Zhang, Ph.D.

**** */* * ******* Glen Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064

******.***.*****@*****.***; 702-***-**** T

Legal Status U.S. Permanent Resident (EB-1 Extraordinary Ability)

Areas of Expertise

5 years of experience in R&D project management and completion

6 years of experience in manufacturing process improvement, structural/mechanical/thermal analysis and materials mechanical/thermal testing

8 years of experience in numerical simulation and analysis with Finite Element Modeling (FEM) & Discrete Element Method (DEM)

3D CAD/CAM/CAE

Additive manufacturing technologies and their applications

Solid/Structural/Fracture mechanics, fatigue failure and metallurgical analysis

Structural (Stress/Strain), thermal, vibration, contact, fracture/fatigue FEM

Static/dynamic linear/non-linear multi-physics FEM and analysis

Modeling and analysis of granular materials using FEM & DEM

Welding technologies and processes

CFD modeling and analysis

Professional Experience

R&D Engineer, Fusion Science & Technology Center at University of California, Los Angeles, February 2013 – August 2016

Design, testing, FEM and DEM of fusion solid breeder (granular/cellular) blanket

Project Leader, Utah State University, 2006 - 2013

Effect of post-weld heat treatment on creep rupture properties of Grade 91 steel heavy section welds (2010 - 2013)

Coupled thermal-structural analysis and design of interconnect for 3D integrated circuits (ICs) (2008 - 2009)

Laser repair of GTD-111 superalloy (2008 - 2010)

Ultrasonic consolidation of metal-matrix composites (2006 - 2009)

Key Investigator, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Design of the DSP-controlled GMAW welding machine (2004 - 2006)

Education Background

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Utah State University, August 2011

M.S., Materials Processing Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, March 2003

B.A., Materials Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, June 2000

Computer Skills ANSYS (APDL, Mechanical, Thermal, Fluent, CFX), Abaqus, SolidWorks, CATIA, COMSOL, Matlab, Python, Femap with NX Nastran, Solid Edge and LAMMPS (LIGGGTHS)

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