Amol Gaikwad
CAE Principal Engineer at Honda R&D America, Inc
- Role
- Cae Crashworthiness Engineer at Honda R&d Americas, Llc
- Location
- Columbus, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Amol Gaikwad
A passionate mechanical engineering professional with expertise in crash CAE simulations…
Experience
Cae Crashworthiness Engineer
Sep 2012 — Present · Columbus, OH, US
Analyzed vehicle structures for crash safety for full vehicle life cycle development • Working on multiple vehicle development program• Developed strategy and methodology to evaluate fuel system protection in frontal crash• Working on Frontal Crash CAE Analysis for new platform/vehicle structure development• Analyzing Full vehicle CAE model for Flat Frontal, ODB, SOT and Oblique barrier mode for different engine/transmission variation • Analyzed frontal SOT impact mode for new development platform and suggested Countermeasures to achieve performance target• Working with different functional and design group to improve crashworthiness performance to the target• Analyzed frontal SOT impact mode for new development platform and suggested Countermeasures to achieve performance target• Proposed design C/M for light weight cabin development project in frontal SOT to meet target performance• Analyzed CAE results and suggested design changes to improve Side Impact and Roof Crush performance• Demonstrated test to CAE correlation for side impact load cases by applying improved methodology• Developed SPR failure model in CAE for full vehicle analysis• Developed new CAE methodologies for wheel failure in small overlap test (SOT) to predict better response of virtual analysis• Extensive knowledge of MAT224 failure in LS-DYNA• Developed new methodology and standard procedure for IP impact modeling to improver correation between CAE and test• Developed CAE modeling technique and failure criteria for MIG welds on Aluminum structures and correlated to the test• Tested and developed material properties for different kind of Aluminum castings with failure criteria
Education
Savitribai Phule Pune University
BE, Mechanical Engineering
2001 — 2005
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
MS, Mechanical Engineering
2007 — 2008
Government Polytechnic, Pune
Diploma, Metallurgical Engineering
1997 — 2000
Skills
- Abaqus
- Pro Engineer
- Catia
- Madymo
- Finite Element Analysis
- Programming
- Ls-Dyna
- Engineering
- Modeling
- Nvh
- Autocad
- Nastran
- Hypermesh
- Cae
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