Stress/Fea/mechanical

OBJECTIVE

To obtain an immediate permanent position in the field of analysis and design .

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• FEM Packages : Ls-Dyna, NASTRAN, ANSYS, ABAQUS, Hypermesh, Patran,FEMAP

• CAD Tools: Pro-Engineer, AutoCAD, Solid works, Catia V4/V5

• Programming Languages: C, C++, FORTRAN, Mat lab, Maple, MATCAD.

• O/S Platforms: Solaris, Irix, Windows, Linux.

• Parallel Computing: Message Passing Interface (MPI), OpenMP.

STRESS EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• 8 years experience in finite element analysis, 4 years in classical hand analysis

• NVH, Material and Geometric non-linearity, Quasi-static, dynamic, linear static, Explicit and Implicit solvers.

• Expertise in Solid, Shell modeling, assembly of components, static and dynamic analysis.

• Template, Macro and Translators for Hypermesh and Ansys.

• Implementation of parallel codes for numerical simulations.

• FMVSS Standards.

• Damage Tolerance.

• Fatigue Analysis.

• Hand Calculations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Boeing , WA Jan 2009-Present

Stress Engineer

• Stress Analysis of Secondary Support Structures for Electrical, Flight Deck and Environment Control System installations for 747-8, 777 and 767 Aircrafts using classical hand calculations.

Heath Tecna, WA June 2006-Dec 2008

Stress Engineer

Responsibilities include stress and structural analysis of various secondary structures for Airbus A380/A330/A340, Boeing 737/747/777.

• Perform Stress Analysis for interior structures such as partition panels, class dividers and closets.

• Analyze and validate structural components via hand calculations and finite element analysis using NASTRAN and FEMAP.

• Identify required structural modifications and coordinate the same with design and systems engineering teams.

• Interface loads calculation using NASTRAN and FEMAP for flight/ground and emergency landing loads.

• Developing Analysis and testing methodologies for Composite panel structures.

• Develop and document technical reports to support the analysis performed.

Spirit Aerosystems (Boeing, Wichita) Aug-2005-June 2006

Stress Engineer

Responsibilities included stress and structural analysis of various primary structures, primarily on Section 46 and Section 44 of Boeing 737-900ER and 737-800FPB.

• Perform Stress analysis of aircraft primary structures which included Keel beam, shear ties, stringer clips, window belt region and window belt attachments, keel beam splice and large cuts such as access door cutouts and APU cutouts..

• Analyze and validate structures via hand calculations accounting for flight/ground and emergency landing loads to support SRM.

• Perform Fatigue analysis of aircraft primary structure such as keel beam, window belt region and window belt attachments, access door cut outs and APU cut outs.

• Identify structural modification and coordinate the same with design and systems engineering teams.

• Develop and document technical documents to support analysis performed.

Lohitsa Inc Oct 2004-Aug 2005 CAE Engineer on contract to Nissan

Responsibilities included modeling and analysis of Body in White and panels.

• Low frequency modeling of BIW and closures for NVH studies using NASTRAN

• Roof crush and Door sag. using PAMCRASH.

• FMVSS 207 and FMVSS 210, Seat belt pull both front and rear seat.

• Outer panel stiffness analysis for closures using ABAQUS.

• Throttle Body Analysis using Nastran for Robert Bosch.

• Frequency Response of Fuel Rails for Bosch.

ACM2E Research lab at University at Buffalo 2001-Sept 2004

Research Assistant

• Finite Element Analysis of Shaken Baby Syndrome. To establish a clear difference between the injury criteria occurring during an impact and non-impact head injury.

• Implementation of implicit and explicit finite element codes for solving time dependant problems in serial and parallel.

• Implementation different non-linear material models into the finite element codes. Materials handled were isotropic hardening, kinematic hardening and poroplasticity.

• Part of the team involved in the analysis of child restraint systems using madymo.

Plexion Technologies India 2000-2001

Team Leader

• Frontal impact: Responsible for coordinating the assembling of components and set up of analysis for a full car crash.

• Modeling and Analysis of various automotive and heavy machinery components.

• Team building and training activities.

DSQ Software India 1999-2000

Design Engineer

• Performed Stress and Failure analysis of Volvo trailers.

• Was responsible for leading a team that involved in Analysis of support arm, driving axle for Ingersoll-Rand.

• Headed a team involved in Modeling of Engine Block, Cylinder head for Mercury marine

• Involved in design and optimization of Connecting rod for Mercury Marine. Responsible for buckling analysis of the same.

Altair Engineering India 1998-1999

Project Engineer

• Built Finite Element models of various automotive components like Lower control arm, Knuckle joint, Upper control arm for Ford.

• Developed templates and input translators for Hypermesh.

• Support for Altair Hyperworks suite of products.

• Bench marking and testing of Element Partition Method and other meshless methods.

EDUCATION

University at Buffalo 2001-Sept 2004 Masters in Mechanical Engineering, GPA 3.5/4.0.

Concentration: Finite Element methods and its applications to Biomechanical Systems.

BMS College of Engineering. Bangalore, India 1994-1998

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering.

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• Finite Element Analysis of Shaken Baby Syndrome : First Injury Biomechanics Symposium-Columbus Ohio- May 2005.

• New Algorithm development for long duration problems such as shaken baby syndrome : Seventh US national conference for Computational Mechanics- Albuquerque, New Mexico

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