Cerritos, California, United States
Materials and Processes (M&P) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) professional with extensive education and industrial experience in comprehensive problem solving, designing, modeling, fabrication, testing, and failure analysis of components and systems. Areas of expertise in materials and process include: - Aluminum alloys, titanium alloys, superalloys, high strength steels, ceramics, refractory, composite materials, and coatings. - Materials selection and material properties. - Metal manufacturing process development including forging, heat treating, investment casting, welding, brazing, induction heating and machining. - Additive Manufacturing (AM) of metals with Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) and Direct Energy Deposition (DED) methods. - Riser and gating design for investment casting, sand casting and die casting. - Materials testing (tensile, hardness, fatigue, fracture toughness, creep, corrosion and stress rupture) - Alloy and process development, design allowables development, and MMPDS. - Generation of first-article and production test plan, material and process specifications. - Failure analysis, hand-on skill with optical and electron microscopy and EDS. - Residual stresses measurement, stress prediction, stress relieve technique and machine distortion. - NDT and destructive testing, quality assurance and control. - Advanced statistical analysis, Design of Experiment, and Artificial Neural Network. Areas of expertise in FEA analysis and modeling include: - Structural Finite Element Analysis (FEA) with Abaqus, NX Nastran, Ansys, and MSC.Marc. - Static and transient thermal analysis, heat transfer coefficient determination. - Static and dynamic structural analysis of component and assembly, coupled stress and thermal analysis. - Tool stress, wear, damage and life analysis. - Crack and fracture prediction. - CFD and electromagnetic analysis and multi-physics modeling. - Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), CALPHAD, and phase field modeling. - Process modeling on forging, casting, heat treating, induction heating, welding, AM and machining. - Pre and post processing in Altair HyperWorks, Altair HyperMesh, Cubit, and Bolt. - User subroutine and script development in Fortran, Python, APDL and C. - CAD design in Catia, NX, Creo, and Solidworks - GD&T - Proven communication and project management skills