ASIDIC 2017 PRESENTER PROFILES
TECHNICAL SESSION 1A: STRUCTURAL CRASHWORTHINESS
Session Chairs: Mostafa Rassaian, Boeing Research and Technology; Michel Mahé, Airbus Commercial Aircraft.
9:00 Full Scale Drop Test of a Fokker F28 Forward Fuselage Section onto Soil
Justin Littell
NASA – Langley Research Center
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Justin Littell is a Research Engineer in the Structural Dynamics Branch at NASA Langley Research Center working in the area of Aircraft Crashworthiness. He has been working at the NASA Langley Landing and Impact Research Facility for approximately 9 years, where he conducts full scale, subscale and materials testing, with a particular interest in composite, sandwich and metallic components structures and vehicles.
His research interests include the research and development of novel energy absorbing materials and systems, along with the development of novel photogrammetric metrology systems and techniques. He has authored multiple journal papers and NASA Technical Memos in the areas of composites , full-scale crash testing and photogrammetry.
9:20 Experimental Drop Test of a Composite Regional Aircraft Fuselage
Luigi Di Palma
CIRA – Italian Aerospace Research Centre, Leonardo Company Airìcraft Division
- Experienced Lead Project Coordinator with a focus in the management of wide international multi-parties teams with a history of working in the research institutions and aerospace industry. Skilled in Project Management, System Engineering, Aeronautics Structure, Computer-Aided Design and Analysis (CAD-CAE), Materials processing, Aeronautics, Airworthiness, Research and Development (R&D). He has a Master in Computational Analysis (M.C.A.) focused in automatic calculation from Università of Perugia and a full Diploma of Laurea in Engineering from Università of Naples. Author of 30 international publication.s He has been Visit Professor at University of Naples and participate to the homologation of a new single turboprob A/C.
Currently he is the coordinator of two EU/Clean Sky 2 Core Partner projects aimed to develop main systems of the helicopter of Airbus Helicopters Compound and of the of Leonardo Helicopters Tiltrotor and responsible of other four R&D project at CIRA.
9:40 Full Scale Drop Test of a Composite Bussines Jet Fuselage Section
Gerardo Olivares, Robert Huckulak, Luis Manuel Gomez
NIAR – National Institute for Aviation Research
10:20 Test-Analysis Correlation of Airframe and ATD Responses for a Full Scale Drop Test of an F28 Fuselage Section
Martin S. Annett
NASA – Langley Research Center
- Martin Annett is a Research Aerospace Engineer within the Structural Dynamics Branch at NASA Langley Research Center. He received a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics from the University of Minnesota, and an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The George Washington University. He was previously employed at The Aerospace Corporation, Orbital Sciences Corporation, and The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He specializes in dynamic structural analyses, utilizing linear and nonlinear finite element analysis techniques. He has conducted shock, impact, and vibration tests for a variety of launch vehicle, spacecraft, crashworthiness, and injury biomechanics programs. Mr. Annett serves as the technical lead for impact dynamics with NASA’s Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology Project. Mr. Annett has been the lead test engineer on multiple full-scale helicopter crash tests conducted at NASA’s Landing and Impact Research Facility.
10:40 Crash Simulation of a Vertical Drop Test of Commuter Crass Aircraft Fuselage Section
Hiromitsu Miyaki, Takao Okada, Yuichiro Aoki
JAXA – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
11:00 Optimisation of Energy Absorbing Stages in Helicopters
Paolo Astori, Luca Bertoni, Ciro Spada, Roberto Ruiz Melian
Politecnico di Milano / Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- Paolo Astori , Politecnico di Milano:
2002-2003 Assistant professor at Technical University Delft, The Netherlands
2004 – now Assistant professor at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Specialization: aircraft systems and crashworthiness
11:20 A Review of Experimental and Numerical Activities on Composites Crashworthiness Performed at the University of Bologna
Francesco Rondina – PhD candidate
University of Bologna
- Francesco Rondina, University of Bologna, Italy.
Studied for the most part at the University of Bologna (Unibo), Italy, claimed to be the oldest university in the world (est. 1088).
Mr. Rondina gained his B.Sc. in energy engineering, studying energy generation systems, power plants, and renewable energy sources. In this period, he spent a semester in Iceland, attending courses at the Reykjavik University to improve his understanding of geothermal power plants and heat distribution systems.
Then, for his Master’s degree, Mr. Rondina moved to mechanical engineering to improve his knowledge in material technology and machine design. During this programme, he met Lorenzo Donati, Professor of manufacturing technology at Unibo, who offered him to write a Master’s thesis at the university of Dortmund, Germany. Here Mr. Rondina studied the microstructure evolution in extrusion process of aluminum beams, and graduated in October 2014.
After completing his M.Sc., Mr. Rondina continued his collaboration with Prof. Donati, applied for a Ph.D. scholarship, but this time specializing on Composite materials.
Together with colleagues, he participated in several projects regarding CFRP applications for automotive and aeronautics, gained experience in manufacturing, material testing, and numerical modeling.
Recently, he took part in the CMH-17 Crashworthiness group Exercise, thanks to the invitation by Dr. Mostafa Rassaian, and started working on the crash behavior and simulation of CFRP.
To this end,Mr. Rondina started a collaboration with ESI-software to validate and improve the numerical models for composite materials offered by their software Pam-Crash. Mr. Rondina will have an opportunity to present some advancement of their models, additions and improvements.
11:40 Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Crashworthy Composite Helicopter Subfloors
Ill Kyung Park
KARI – Korea Aerospace Research Institute
- Mr. Park has a PhD. in Computational Science from Seul National Universty in Korea, as well as an MS in Aerospace Engineering and a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He currently works as a Senior Researcher at Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).
2:00 Drop Test Certification Modeling of AFP Composites Fuselage, Considering Passenger Safety
F. Abdi
AlphaSTAR Corp / McNAIR Center, University of South Carolina
- Dr. Frank Abdi – is the Chief Scientist of AlphaSTAR Corporation (ASC) and has an extensive knowledge of the various DOD, NASA and Industry software packages providing detailed evaluation and technical guidance for the methods being proposed for analysis of low/high temperature composite structures. Dr. Abdi has a strong theoretical and experimental background in structural materials technology including the derivation and modification of theoretical equations, aeroelastic tailoring composite tapering), optimization, material design, fatigue, creep, fracture mechanics, structural mechanics, analysis of structures, and use of computers to implement these techniques. Dr. Abdi worked at Rockwell International for fifteen years where he was the manager of Advanced Program’s Controlled Configured Vehicle Research organization. Dr. Abdi has over 35 years’ experience in computer based modeling and code development for a range of applications associated with advanced structures, materials processing and composite mechanics with a unique background in finite difference and finite element as applied to aerospace components. At AlphaSTAR he has performed computational modeling and certification of DOE/Sandia -Advanced composite wind turbine blade design based on durability & damage tolerance, Ceramic Turbine blade design, composite overwrapped pressure vessel, and many other aerospace and automotive industry projects. Prior to ASC he worked at Boeing/Rockwell Aerospace where he was responsible for design and simulation of NASP (X-30), B-1B bird strike, Advanced Launch System (ALS), Boosted Penetrator, Swedish Fighter, Special Operation Aircraft (SOA), and shuttle redesign. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers in optimization, materials science and computational structural analysis, authored a book in process optimization and edited another book. Dr. Abdi received a B.S. and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan in 1974 and 1975 respectively, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Southern California in 1979. He is currently serving as adjunct Professor at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) department of Material science, and Imperial college department of mechanical engineering. He is the recipient of several awards: NASA software of the year (1999), R&D 100 (yr 2000), US Senate Tibbets award (yr 2001), NASA Columbia accident investigation (yr 2003) and R&D 100 (yr 2015).
2:20 Use of Advanced Non-Linear Dynamic Analysis Techniques for Engine Pod/Pylon Separation Due to Overload Crashworthiness Events
Alan Melling, Marwan Al-Khalil (Presented By Dr. Michel Mahé)
Airbus
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Dr. Michel Mahé is a Senior Expert for Dynamic Analysis at Airbus Commercial Aircraft. Additionally Michel is leading the Airbus Structural Analysis Expert Community.
Since joining Airbus, Michel has been spearheading diverse nonlinear FEA simulation solutions in the areas of both static and dynamic applications. His expertise has an emphasis on bird strike, tyre debris impact, open fan blade-out, hail, ballistics, crashworthiness and ditching.
Dr. Michel Mahé led the A350 Fuselage Crashworthiness Development paving the way for future aircraft composite structures certification by analysis. He has applied this approach to evaluate structural design concepts while jointly setting up certification by analysis supported by a test pyramid building block approach.
Michel additionally led the first operational application of complete aircraft nonlinear FEA detailed modelling, contributing to anticipate and de-risk the A350 roadmap to first flight and certification (static test campaign).
Dr. Michel Mahé has also been involved in several accident investigations, setting up and conducting specific dynamic analysis & testing. He’s presented the findings of these investigations at trial and in court proceedings.
Michel’s computational structural mechanics expertise draws upon several technical disciplines especially covering nonlinear FEA (both static and dynamic) and also covering progressive damage modeling. Michel is currently involved in transverse multiphysics projects bridging structure (airframe), aerodynamics, loads and aeroelasticity.
Dr. Michel Mahé has taken part in many national and international research projects including six EU funded projects. He has authored over 40 international journals and conference papers, and is a member of the scientific committee of several scientific organizations e.g. NAFEMS, 3AF, CMH17. Additionally, he is professor of computational structural mechanics at Supaero and Eurosae.
A graduate in Structural Mechanics from ENS Cachan in 1986, Dr Michel Mahé received his doctorate degree from Supaero in 1990. His PhD thesis is applied to nonlinear FEA of composite laminates.
3:00 Certification of Composite Aerostructures Against Impact Conditions Using Analysis Supported by Test
Nigel Pready
Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd.
- Nigel Pready. Group Leader – Structural Technology. Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd. Nigel is a Group Leader at Frazer-Nash Consultancy. He leads a team who provide structural analysis to a broad range of customers across multiple industries, including aerospace, power generation, defence and automotive. Nigel has been in this position for four years, prior to that he led a team in Airbus UK carrying out static nonlinear finite element analysis to support route cause investigation, design optimisation, and certification.
3:20 High End Scanning and Virtual Reality Visualizations Techniques for Aerospace Crashworthiness
Jeff Fisher, Gerardo Olivares
NIAR – National Institute for Aviation Research
TECHNICAL SESSION 1B: EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN COMPOSITES
Session Chairs: Javier Herrero, Boeing Commercial Airplanes; Joseph Pellettiere, FAA – Federal Aviation Administration.
3:40 Development of A Building Block Approach For Crashworthiness Testing Of Composites
Daniel O. Adams, Mark Perl
University of Utah
4:00 Material Characterization and Model Calibration for Aerospace Crashworthiness
Pawel B. Woelke, Badri K. Hiriyur, Juan G. Londono
VistaMat
- Juan G. Londono is a Project Engineer in the Weidlinger Applied Sciences practice of Thornton Tomasetti, (TT). At TT, his work spans on advanced finite element modeling for various engineering applications, research and development in applied/computational mechanics, technology transfer and software development. Juan is also a developer of the advance material failure modeling package VistaMat Suite. Juan received his PhD and MPhil degrees in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from Columbia University in 2017, Master’s degree from Florida International University, and Bachelor’s degree from Universidad Industrial de Santander. His dissertation work focused in developing novel constitutive models for damage regularization and characterization of viscoelastic materials.
4:20 Simulation of Dynamic Crushing of Composite Structures using two Intra-Laminar Damage Models Implemented in LS-DYNA and ABAQUS/Explicit
T. Feser, M. Waimer, D. Schueler, N. Toso-Pentecôte, J. Reiner, N. Zobeiry, S. Abouali, R. Vaziri
DLR – German Aerospace Center / University of British Columbia
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Reza Vaziri is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Scientific Director of the Composites Research Network at The University of British Columbia (UBC). He served as the Head of Department of Civil Engineering from 2008 to 2014. Dr. Vaziri’s research has been focused on the development of analytical and numerical modelling techniques to simulate the manufacturing process of composite structures as well as their fracture and damage behaviour under service loads including high intensity impact and crash loadings.
4:40 Crashworthiness Experiment and Stacked Shell Simulation of Composite Thin-Walled Circular Tubes Subject to Axial Compression
Haolei Mou, Xuehang Zhang, Congyao Ma, Jiang Xie, Zhenyu Feng
Civil Aviation University of China
- Mou Haolei, A lecturer of Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC), joined the Airworthiness Research Center (ARC) of CAUC after graduation in 2013. The current research is focused on structural impact dynamics, structural failure analysis, and airworthiness certification technology research of aircraft structures, mainly including the airworthiness requirements of crash safety, compliance verification methods, crashworthiness simulation technologies, crashworthiness test technologies, and so on. Until now, has published 10+ papers (first and corresponding author).
5:00 Infrared Thermography for Damage Monitoring at High Strain Rates
J. Berthe, G. Portemont
ONERA – French National Aerospace Research Center
- Julien Berthe. A graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan in 2010, he received a Ph.D. degree from the Ecole Centrale de Lille in 2013. His research deals with the strain rate and temperature dependencies of organic matrix composite material behavior with two main aspects: the experimental characterization and the numerical modeling of such dependencies.
TECHNICAL SESSION 2A: AIRCRAFT DITCHING
Session Chairs: Nathalie Toso, DLR – German Aerospace Center; Wim Doeland, EASA – European Aviation Safety Agency.
9:00 Flexible Structures Response to Ditching Loads
J.T. Viana, G. Pastor and H. Climent
Airbus Defence and Space
- Juan Tomás Viana Lozoya is an Aeronautical Engineer (MSc) and has been working at Airbus Defence and Space since 2005 in the Structural Dynamics and Aeroelasticity Department. He has been involved in the certification of the A330-MRTT, A330-Freighter, C295 with winglets and A400M. In addition, he is directly involved in tasks of numerical simulation of high non-linear dynamic impacts, in particular in ditching simulations in the scope of the SMAES project.
9:20 Influence of Structural Deformations on Hydrodynamic Loads During Ditching
M.H. Siemann, D. Kohlgrüber, N. Toso
DLR – German Aerospace Center
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Dr. Martin Siemann works as research engineer at the Institute of Structures and of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Stuttgart, Germany.
In 2011, he received his Master degree in Mechanical- and Aerospace Engineering from Dresden University of Technology in Germany. Martin started dealing with explicit numerical simulation of impacts already during his studies and also conducted his final thesis on crushing of composite energy absorbers.
After joining DLR in 2011, Martin started working on numerical simulation of aircraft ditching within two international projects. In his PhD thesis, he investigated the structural behavior under aircraft ditching conditions both numerically and experimentally.
9:40 Full-scale Aircraft Ditching Prediction using Compressible Fluid-solid Interactive Strategy
Brandon Horton, Yangkun Song, Javid Bayandor
The State University of New York
- Dr. Javid Bayandor received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Since graduation, he has worked with research departments or divisions of several major aerospace organizations including Airbus, Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures (CRC-ACS), German Aerospace Center (DLR), and NASA. His research interests include collision dynamics and crashworthiness,
ballistics, advanced aircraft and spacecraft structures, aerospace design and optimization, high and reduced order unmanned aerospace systems and flight robotics. He is the author of over 100 peer reviewed publications and is the recipient of the prestigious ICAS John J. Green Award from the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences for his contributions to the field of Aeronautics. Professor Bayandor is the founder and director of CRashworthiness for Aerospace Structures and Hybrids Laboratory (CRASH Lab) at the State University of New York, and is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program lifetime fellow.Yangkun Song and Brandon Horton received their Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering in 2016 and 2017 from Virginia Tech, respectively. They are now CRASH Lab Postdoctoral Associates at The State University of New York. Their research and expertise focuses on impact mechanics, composites, and fluid-solid interaction.
10:00 Aircraft Ditching Simulation: A Comparative Analysis of Advanced Coupled Fluid-Structure Computational Methods
B. Langrand, M.H. Siemann
ONERA – French National Aerospace Research Center / DLR – German Aerospace Center
- Bertrand Langrand. A research scientist at ONERA in Computational Structural
and Solid Mechanics, his research activities are mainly related to crashworthiness
impact problems. His research has also been focused on material behavior characterization,
parameter identification, assembly modeling and Fluid/Structure interaction.
TECHNICAL SESSION 2B: HIGH VELOCITY IMPACT
Session Chairs: J. Michael Pereira, NASA; Javier Herrero, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
10:40 NASA ACC High Energy Dynamic Impact Analysis and Testing Overview
Mostafa Rassaian, Jenna Pang, Ken Hunziker
Boeing Research and Technology
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Dr. Mostafa Rassaian holds a PhD in Applied Mechanics from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and is a Technical Fellow in Boeing Research & Technology, Structures Technology, specializing in Impact Dynamics. Since joining Boeing, Mostafa has been leading diverse simulation solutions in the areas of dynamic events covering bird strike, hail, live fire, ballistics, open fan blade-out, and crashworthiness.
Dr. Rassaian was the PI for the Crashworthiness Certification of 787 paving the way for future aircraft composite structures certification by analysis. He has applied this approach to evaluate the new structural design concepts of Automobili Lamborghini for side-pole impact for crashworthiness certification reducing car crash tests from 4 to 1.
Mostafa’s computational structural mechanics expertise draws upon many different technical disciplines of nonlinear FEA and progressive damage modeling. He is currently leading the development of laminate optimization analysis capabilities for design of non-traditional composite laminates. His developed FE-based structure-acoustic analysis methods and tools have been deployed across Boeing enterprise and implemented in LS-DYNA.
He is the Founder of the Analytical Standardization for Energy Absorption of Composite and Co-Chair of the CMH-17 Working Group on Crashworthiness. He is a member of the AIAA Structures Technical Committee and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA and Affiliate Professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the University of Washington. He holds 22 patents, with 5 pending and has authored over 50 journals and conference papers.
TECHNICAL SESSION 2C: HIGH VELOCITY IMPACT – BIRD STRIKE
Session Chairs: J. Michael Pereira, NASA; Javier Herrero, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
11:00 SAE Gelatin Bird Substitute
Julian M, Reed
Rolls Royce
- Dr. Julian Reed
- Is the Rolls-Royce Engineering Fellow for Impact and Structural Dynamics
- Key areas of expertise are bird strike, ice ingestion, fan and turbine blade off and non-linear contact/vibration
- Has worked for Rolls-Royce for 22 years and has been actively involved in the certification of all engines for the above subjects since 1996
- Is the Rolls-Royce representative for all bird strike rule-making activities
- Is the co-chair of the AIA bird committee
- Is the deputy chair of the EASA Open Rotor bird strike rule-making committee
- Is the chair of the SAE Artificial Bird committee
- Prior to 1996 worked for British Aerospace conducting research into bird strike onto aero structures
- Main interest outside work is restoring British motorcycles
11:20 Analysis of Bird-Strike under Blunt and Splitting Impact
S. A. Ritt, A. F. Johnson, H. F. Voggenreiter
DLR – German Aerospace Center
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Stefan Andreas Ritt received his engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing.) at RWTH Aachen, Germany. He works at the DLR Institute of Structure and Design, Stuttgart more than 10 years on high velocity impact simulation and testing both in scientific and industry projects. In DLR’s design organisation he was involved in certification projects for high velocity impact phenomena.
He has 5 years earlier experience in static stress of wing and high-lift structures.
11:40 Assessment of Modelling Tools for the Prediction of Bird-Strike on Aircraft Leading Edge Structure
David Delsart, Bertrand Langrand, Cloé Durupt, Vincent Jacques
ONERA – French National Aerospace Research Center / DASSAULT Aviation
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Bertrand Langrand. A research scientist at ONERA in Computational Structural
and Solid Mechanics, his research activities are mainly related to crashworthiness
impact problems. His research has also been focused on material behavior characterization,
parameter identification, assembly modeling and Fluid/Structure interaction.
1:00 Overview of Bird Strike Modelling, Testing, Current and Future Certification Approaches in Airbus Helicopters
Alice Vagnot, Florent Boyer, Johannes Markmiller
Airbus Helicopters
- Ms. Vagnot was hired in 2002 by Airbus Helicopters after being graduated from an aeronautical engineering school.
Her fields of expertise are: stress, crashworthiness of structural and fuel system parts, impact loads including ditching, bird and hail strikes, crashworthy seats, materials dynamic behavior, explicit numerical simulations.
Ms. Vagnot’s job within Airbus Helicopters is currently to manage the transnational “Research and Dynamics” team (7 people in France + 3 people in Germany) which aims at:
- certifying new developments in the above fields (both civil and military helicopters);
- proposing and managing research programs.
She is also an Airbus Group expert in the field “Ground loads & Crash”.
1:20 Computational Modeling of Bird Strike Impacts on Aircraft Structures: Results and Conclusions
James Mathis
Southwest Research Institute
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Mr. Mathis comes from Southwest Research Institute where he manages experimental and computational programs involving dynamic structural response due to explosive blast and impact. His primary area of expertise is high speed diagnostics and customized instrumentation for dynamic events to support collection of high quality data for validation of computational models. Mr. Mathis is the lead test engineer at the Large Gas Gun Facility at SwRI where he conducts full scale bird strike testing to support R&D efforts and FAA/EASA certification tests. Mr. Mathis is proficient in the use of many analysis tools including finite element methods and hydrocodes for design of experiments, and pre-test predictions. His most recent work has focused on the physics and measurement of soft-body impact response and simulations of those impacts on aerospace structures to support the path toward bird impact certification by analysis.
1:40 Experimental and Computational Simulation of Bird Impacts on Flat and Sharp Objects
J. Michael Pereira, Martin S. Annett
NASA Glenn Research Center / NASA Langley Research Center
- Michael Pereira, Ph.D. Mike Pereira serves as the technical lead of the NASA Glenn Research Center Ballistic Impact Facility. He has had over 25 years of experience working in the field of Structural Mechanics and Dynamics and conducts research in the areas of high rate loading of structures and materials. He received his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University and his Ph.D. degree from the Case Western Reserve University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1989. He has published over 80 technical articles, including 20 articles in refereed journals. He has received several distinguished honors, including the NASA Medal for Exceptional Service, the NASA Space Flight Awareness Honoree Award and a Commendation from the Department of the Army.
TECHNICAL SESSION 2D: HIGH VELOCITY IMPACT – HAIL STRIKE
Session Chairs: Mostafa Rassaian, Boeing Research and Technology; Nathalie Toso, DLR – German Aerospace Center.
2:00 Study of the Impact Behavior of Simulated Hailstone
P. Deconincka, M. Bourcierb, K. Soobbarayenc, P-L. Héreila, A. Philipb, A. Combescurec
Thiot-Ingenierie
2:20 Hail Impact on Transparent Ceramic Samples
Roger Schäfer, Markus Janewers
IABG mbH
- Dr.-Ing. Roger Schäfer
Head of Department: University Kassel
Professional qualification
2010- Present: Head of Department “Protection, Impact & High-Risk-Testing” at IABG Lichtenau
2006-2010: Program Manager for Impact- and Pyroshock- Testing at IABG Lichtenau
2006: German Science Award German Aerospace Center (DLR) – Institute for Aeroelasticity, Göttingen
2005: Dr.-Ing. at University Kassel (Fluid-structure interaction during re-entry)
2005-2006: German Aerospace Center (DLR) – Institute for Aeroelasticity, Göttingen
2000-2005: Scientist at German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute for Structures and Design, Stuttgart
2:40 Experimental Investigation of High Velocity Ice Impacts on Carbon Fiber Composite Laminates
Guanglan Liao, Wei Chen, Gang Luo
NUAA – Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Wei Chen, devoted to the investigation of Aero-engine structural strength and vibration, the design of aerial piston engine, the structural impact dynamicsand impact damage of aero-engine, the airworthiness requirements of aero-engine, and the multidisciplinary numerical analysis and simulation technology. He is honored as the member of professional group on aeronautic propulsion technology of People’s Liberation Military Commission Army equipment development department, member of new unconventional engine technologygroup of AAXX committee of experts, committeeof power branch of Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics, council of Jiangsu society of Aeronautics and Astronautics,committeeof Structural dynamics professional committeeof Chinese Society for Vibration Engineering, committeeof Flexible pipe technology committee in the national standardization technical committee piping accessories, The director of the institute of vibration engineering in jiangsu province, member of Academic Committeeof Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power System, editorial board member of “Journal of Aerospace Power” and “Aero-engine”.
He is hosting in several research projects of National 973 Plan, and the NationalNatural Science Foundation. He hosted and participated in over 30 research projects including the innovation fund of General Armaments Department, AAXX plan, NationalNatural Science Foundation，Aeronautical Science Foundation of China，National Defense Preliminary Research Projectsand . He got a second prize and third prize of a Provincial Prize for Progress in Science and Technology. His more than 10 patents were applied and over 5 patents have been authorized; his more than 40 papers were published, of which over 20 papers were indexed by SCI, EI and ISTP.
3:00 Investigation of Hailstone Impact Damage on Composite Wing Leading Edge
Cody Godines, Frank Abdi, Vincent Pieuchot, Shahram Aivazzadeh
AlphaSTAR Corp / Université de Bourgogne
- Dr. Frank Abdi – is the Chief Scientist of AlphaSTAR Corporation (ASC) and has an extensive knowledge of the various DOD, NASA and Industry software packages providing detailed evaluation and technical guidance for the methods being proposed for analysis of low/high temperature composite structures. Dr. Abdi has a strong theoretical and experimental background in structural materials technology including the derivation and modification of theoretical equations, aeroelastic tailoring composite tapering), optimization, material design, fatigue, creep, fracture mechanics, structural mechanics, analysis of structures, and use of computers to implement these techniques. Dr. Abdi worked at Rockwell International for fifteen years where he was the manager of Advanced Program’s Controlled Configured Vehicle Research organization. Dr. Abdi has over 35 years’ experience in computer based modeling and code development for a range of applications associated with advanced structures, materials processing and composite mechanics with a unique background in finite difference and finite element as applied to aerospace components. At AlphaSTAR he has performed computational modeling and certification of DOE/Sandia -Advanced composite wind turbine blade design based on durability & damage tolerance, Ceramic Turbine blade design, composite overwrapped pressure vessel, and many other aerospace and automotive industry projects. Prior to ASC he worked at Boeing/Rockwell Aerospace where he was responsible for design and simulation of NASP (X-30), B-1B bird strike, Advanced Launch System (ALS), Boosted Penetrator, Swedish Fighter, Special Operation Aircraft (SOA), and shuttle redesign. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers in optimization, materials science and computational structural analysis, authored a book in process optimization and edited another book. Dr. Abdi received a B.S. and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan in 1974 and 1975 respectively, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Southern California in 1979. He is currently serving as adjunct Professor at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) department of Material science, and Imperial college department of mechanical engineering. He is the recipient of several awards: NASA software of the year (1999), R&D 100 (yr 2000), US Senate Tibbets award (yr 2001), NASA Columbia accident investigation (yr 2003) and R&D 100 (yr 2015).
TECHNICAL SESSION 2E: AIRCRAFT INTERIORS – SEATS
Session Chairs: Michel Mahé, Airbus Commercial Aircraft; Wim Doeland, EASA – European Aviation Safety Agency.
3:40 Smarter Testing through Dynamic Simulation
Jan M Leon, Kabir Mohammed, Shawn Li
The Boeing Company
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Jan M Leon: Structural Analysis Engineer at The Boeing Company
Aerospace: Boeing BCA Seats dynamic simulation; NASA Glenn Research Center
Automotive: General Motors
Areas of Interest: Impact Analysis, Material Characterization, DoE/Sensitivity Analysis. Airbags
4:00 Seat Cushion Substitution on Large Transport Aircraft
Paolo Astori, Enzo Canari, Andrea Scialpi
Politecnico di Milano / EASA – European Aviation Safety Agency / Testori Aero Supply
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Mr. Andrea Scialpi
Certification Engineer, Production Manager and Maintenance manager for Testori Aero Supply an Italian Production Organization approved by EASA ( European Aviation Safety Agency) as DOA (Design Organization) with approval certification EASA.21J.0350 for Cabin Interior Modifications and Repairs (STC, Major, Minor), as POA (Production Organization) with approval certification EASA Part 21 G IT.21G.0014 for Aircraft/Helicopter Cabin Interior and PART 145 (Maintenance Organization) with approval certification EASA Part 145 IT.145.0385 for Aircraft/Helicopter Cabin Interior Components
In the recent past coordinated the Testori Aero Supply team that developed, in cooperation with Politechnic of Milan, the first EASA approved STC (Supplemental Type Certificate) for seat cushion replacement on a 16g certified aircraft, implementing a test method based on guide lines contained in FAA DOT AR-05-5-1 document.
Continuing Airworthiness Director for TRTO Agency, a small airline based in MALTA (AOC-MT-043) operating Business Jets and one Airbus A320
Consultant for SGI Aviation in Amsterdam, Engineering Services providers for Leasing Companies, Airlines, MRO, since 2009
From 1992 to 2014 hold various management position in the airlines technical management field, among which we can mention:
CAMO Post Holder and Maintenance Director for Air Four SPA 2010-2014
Maintenance consultant for Smart Lynx Italia, branch of Smart Lynx Ltd 2009
VP Technical Operations and Post Holder Maintenance the “new Livingston “merged between Lauda Air SpA and Livingston SpA 2002-2009
Deputy Technical Director, Continuous Airworthiness Responsible and Engineering Manager of Lauda Air SPA. 1992-2002
4:20 Range Of Stature Of ATD’s
Hyunsok Pang, Mike Haycraft, Daniel Londonson, Kevin Keeslar
AmSafe
- Hyunsok Pang
Education: Bachelor of Science :
INHA UNIVERSITY in KOREA (Mechanical Engineering) – 1984
Master of Science :
INHA UNIVERSITY in KOREA (VIBRATIONS) – 1987
Ph.D :
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO (ROBOTICS & CONTROLS) – 1994
Work Experience
SAMSUNG AEROSPACE (1995 – 1996) : Developed CHIP MOUNTER
HYUNDAI ELECTRONICS (1996 -1998) : Airbag System Integration
TNO-MADYMO USA (1998-2002) : MADYMO Application Engineer
KEY SAFETY SYSTEMS (2002 – 2008) : Airbag System Integration
HUMANETICS (2008 – 2014) : FE DUMMY DEVELOPMENT (Material Modeling)
AMSAFE (2014 – Present) :
Currently working for airbag & seatbelt development and airbag sensor calibration
4:40 Development of an Aeronautical Crashworthy Seatfor the Fatal Head Injuries Using Design of Experiments
F. Liccardo, B. Vitolo, S. Cicatiello, F. Marulo, A. Vanacore, F. Caputo, M. Guida
GEVEN / University of Naples
- Bonaventura Vitolo
Bonaventura Vitolo, graduated from University of Naples “Federico II” with master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, specialized in structure behaviours, computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics and space. Since 2008 he supports the design of Aircraft Interiors through the use of Finite Element codes and computer simulations of aircraft seat and occupant(s) in crash environment. He has been heavily involved in several tasks related to the calibration and use of FEM material models to design and assess the crashworthiness of innovative cushion systems for application in Commercial Aviation as well as the design, development and numerical characterization of specific energy absorbing devices for application in pilot seats for small (CS-23/Part 23) airplanes. Since 2014 he aims at studying solutions for Cabin Interiors in order to meet the recently changed air transport requirements. Relevant tasks are concerning the development and design of major cabin items with respect to the human perception, through engineering models and virtual reality, as well as the application of new environmental friendly materials and innovative technologies for Noise&Vibration reduction. Currently he is the technical focal point of several R&D projects devoted to achieve an improved and optimized cabin environment with the aim of increasing passenger’s well-being.
Salvatore Cicatiello
Salvatore Cicatiello with master’s degree in Materials Engineering, since 2009 Lab Manager (Head of laboratory test). Main activities and responsibilities are: Dynamic seat testing (by Seattle & Safety impact sled FAA / EASA / ENAC approved) in accordance with CS 23.25 for TSO C127a. Head path analysis for the safety passenger evaluation; Static seat testing to certificate aircraft seat in order to FAR25 for TSO C- 39b; Testing conventional (steel, resin, aluminum alloys and metals in general) and unconventional (honeycomb, carbon fiber and composites in general) material; Flammability tests (vertical 12/60; smoke density & toxicity; oil burner test according to CS 25 appF/ABD0031 , BSS7239, ASTM662E, AC20.135; AITM 2.0002;2.0009;20007;3.0005; Strain gauge applications and data analysis for material behavior characterization.
TECHNICAL SESSION 2F: AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS – LANDING GEAR
Session Chairs: Michel Mahé, Airbus Commercial Aircraft; Wim Doeland, EASA – European Aviation Safety Agency.
5:00 Landing Gear Impact: Numerical and Experimental Drop Test Validation
M. Castaldo
Magnaghi Aeronautica
- Martina holds an aerospace degree from Federico Secondo University in Naples (Italy).
She started her professional career seven years ago as a performance engineer with Magnaghi Aeronautica, the Italian leading company for Landing Gear design and manufacturing.
She’s currently in charge of several Landing Gears and Hydraulic Actuation Systems simulation activities.