Haimhausen, Bavaria, Germany
With over 19 years of experience in CAE across automotive, aerospace, and medical industries, I excel in both cross-functional team and individual settings. I specialize in devising innovative solutions to optimize product performance, simulation processes, and methods. Known for my ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently in a fast-paced environment, I possess expertise in CAE modeling of various materials and a deep understanding of mechanical and structural interaction mechanisms. I have a keen eye for detail, ensuring precision in every aspect of my work, while also maintaining a holistic perspective to achieve overarching project goals.
-Leading and significantly contributing to the development and implementation of an integrative FEA material modeling strategy for polymers (NFRP, SFRP), metals (sheet, extrusion, casting), and brittle glazing materials to improve FEA prediction quality from coupon to system level within Special Projects Group. -Developing and implementing new testing and characterization standards for polymers, metals and brittle materials to generate enhanced FEA material cards. -Leading, defining and significantly contributing to the development and implementation of a comprehensive validation process for hardware test and FEA simulation results at coupon and component levels. Defining test scenarios incl. measurement setups (DIC, laser, video etc.) with internal and external labs. -Establishing an automated QA process for material cards. -Expanding the crash polymer material database by 500%. -Educating CAE teams on material modeling of polymers and metals. -Successfully motivating and educating material suppliers to provide high-quality material cards according to the Apple standard. -Leading and significantly contributing to various FEA model builds of parts and complex assemblies with Special Project Group. -Being responsible for virtual product design across multiple safety load cases UNECE-R127, EUNCAP, FMVSS201. -Contributing to improve Vision Pro safety performance. Validating/Correlating hardware vs. simulation drop test scenarios, deriving measures to close the gap. -Contributing to implicit and explicit FEA model build of Vision Pro.
- Led the development of future BMW Group strategy for virtual modeling of polymer parts in crash load cases. - Managed material data availability for virtual modeling projects. - Developed and implemented the BMW Group Standard GS 91021 for "Determining material properties for crash simulation". - Led material modeling initiatives focused on polymer parts, utilizing advanced simulation techniques to analyze structural performance and behavior under various loading conditions. - Developed and implemented simulation process chains to account for variations in mechanical properties induced by material-specific manufacturing processes. - Implemented quality management measures in virtual modeling projects. - Developed methods and facilitated the integration of new materials and processes. - Led the implementation of a machine learning/artificial intelligence approach, utilizing OpenCV object detection, to extract supplementary data from safety hardware tests.
- Spearheaded efforts to enhance CAE prediction accuracy, focusing on hardware-free vehicle development in pedestrian safety and low-speed crash scenarios. - Implemented advanced CAE methods for virtual functional design. Developed and enforced CAE modeling conventions and standards to streamline simulation processes. - Improved transparency between simulation results and hardware testing outcomes to facilitate data-driven decision-making. - Enhanced Specification Sheet content to align with virtual functional design requirements.
Responsible for the virtual functional design of exterior parts for pedestrian safety (UNECE-R127, EUNCAP, CNCAP) and low speed crash (US part 581 - bumper standard and RCAR) of the following BMW and MINI cars:
-Consulting for aerospace, automotive and medical industry with focus on material modeling e.g. - Quasi-static and dynamic buckling analysis of cylindrical shells under axial and torsional loading scenarios (EADS/Airbus) - Simulation of ageforming of integral AlMgSc fuselage panels (Premium Aerotec/Airbus/EADS) - Simulation of stretchforming of Al fuselage panels (Airbus/EADS= - Contributed to EU NADIA Project (2006–2010), developing the MAGMASoft–CrachFEM interface to integrate casting process data into LS-DYNA crash simulations for defect-sensitive light alloy components.