Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Principal engineer with consistent success in product development and product optimization. I combine my vast theoretical background, field test experience and advance numerical analysis skills with available manufacturing methods in order to deploy state of art products.
1. Lead structural engineer for manufacturing plant of NISSEN Group. Interface and collaborate with management and marketing staff. Implemented LEAN within product development process. 2. Designed and implemented remote crash-testing facility with data acquisition and post-processing to enable testing capabilities with very low investment. 3. Developed 100kmh steel truck-mounted attenuator (TMA) for NCHRP 350 standard and min. fatigue strength of 1,000,000 cycles Resulting in pending patents P.415378, P.419821 and PCT/IB2016/057739. Organized and coordinated certification tests. 4. Developed modular high-level (~7 m) variable message sign (VMS) trailer, Pharos 2.0 for current Swiss and German road requirements including five crash simulations in LS-Dyna.
1. Coordinated 1,000,000 cycles life-time product testing at 6Hz and 15mm amplitude of the TMA (started at Auburn University) 2. Performed numerical crash simulations for high-level (~7m) variable message sign (VMS) trailer, Pharos, using LS-Dyna and resulting in seven cases including 1300 kg sedan, 12 t truck and 40 t semi-trailer truck. 3. Developed a lightweight (~100 kg) aluminum warning board for EU standards for TTMA-100 using finite element analysis and CAD software starting from concept through workshop drawings.
Research Activities: 1. Supervised by Dr. D. L. Sicking, served as principal engineer for the design of a 100kmh steel truck-mounted attenuator (TMA) for MASH standard, including the following: o provided backup oversight to field test coordination and validation; o performed FEA of rigid bogie impact test and serviceability fatigue; 2. With Dr. A. S. Nowak, conducted an update study on structural engineering load factors for cut and cover tunnels based on Metrolinx Design Criteria Manual (DCM) for the city of Toronto. Project included reliability analysis using current statistical parameters for load and resistance and was based on 17 representative structures. 3. With Dr. A. S. Nowak, as co-principal investigator, worked on Project ALDOT 930-870 focusing on WIM based live load for Alabama bridges using data from 34 million trucks: o supervised a group of graduate research assistants; o developed MATLAB codes to process database; Course Instructor: 1. Structural Analysis (CIVIL 3610) in the Department of Civil Engineering for senior undergraduate students, in the spring of 2014. 2. Online graduate course, Reliability of Structures, taught from Auburn University for the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Technology and Life Sciences, Bydgoszcz, Poland from October 2013 through June 2015.
1. Supervised by Dr. D. L. Sicking, calibrated finite element model for aluminum mobile crash cushion for NCHRP 350 standard based on two rigid bogie crash tests. 2. Supervised by Dr. A. S. Nowak, developed statistical parameters for bridges for service life beyond 100 years (Project SHRP2 R19B) for o live-load model for different average daily truck traffic and time periods using weight-in-motion database; o for load-induced fatigue categories used in AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specification. 3. Supervised by Dr. A. S. Nowak, worked on new specifications for structural supports for highway signs, luminaires and traffic signals (Project NCHRP 10-80): o conducted fatigue resistance analysis for high mast luminaires (~30 m); o estimated statistical parameters for current wind load.