Somnath Sawant

About Somnath Sawant

Master\'s in design engineering with 15+ Years of experience in CAE Crash and Occupant Restraint Safety. Experience in managing Full Vehicle Structural Crash worthiness and Safety as per FMVSS, ECE & NCAP (USA, EUROPEAN, CHINA & ASEAN) standards. Worked alongside with clients from UK, China & India in developing design to meet product requirements. Worked on Side Occupant safety & child occupant safety & correlated with physical tests for EuroNCAP, USNCAP, 214, IIHS & ECER regulations.Exclusively worked on PAB & KnAB Restraint Development regarding Integrity, Coverage,Compatibilty,Deployment(Throw & coverage), Windscreen Damage,Out of Position (OOP) Assessments & Vehicle Safety cascades for Jaguar Land Rover.Handling team of Crash & Safety engineers to drive the design to meet structural crash worthiness and occupant safety requirements for Frontal, Side, Rear, and Pedestrian & Low Speed Impact TestsWorked with OEM\'s like Jaguar & Land Rover (JLR), VOLVO, VINFAST, PSA (PEUGEOT), DONGFENG, Navistar, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, ELECTRAMECHANICA & NOVELIS etc.Experience in full vehicle CAE analysis to assess failures and identified root cause for failures. Countermeasures provided to avoid failures and further meet regulatory & NCAP requirements.Worked on Electric vehicles development for various customers in China, further meeting CNCAP 5-STAR ratingWorked on Body development with mix materials i.e, Aluminum Underbody (with Extrusions & Castings on BIW), and top hat with steel. Optimizing Body load path for meeting frontal, side & rear impact test cases in order to meet NCAP requirementsWorked on Occupant 50th%ile & 05%ile Dummy Models) & Restraint models to see effectiveness of restraints, interior trims and further to evaluate occupant injuries. Optimizing restraints to minimize occupant injuriesGood Knowledge of FMVSS, ECE & EURONCAP, CNCAP & BNVSAP) RegulationsCAE Softwares:• Solvers: Ls-Dyna, MSC. Nastran• Preprocessors: Altair Hypermesh, Hyperstudy & Oasys Primer• Post-Processors: Altair Hyperview, Hypergraph, D3plot, T/his, Ls-Prepost etc.

Experience

1. Senior Team Lead

   Tata Technologies

   Apr 2015 — Present

   Currently working on Passive Restraint development i.e. Airbag Integrity, deployment, correlation, compatibility & commissioning of Passenger & Knee Airbag. Responsible for World SID, ES2re, SID-II, Q10 and Q6 Dummy injury evaluation for side crash regulations such as IIHS, USNCAP (POLE & MDB), EUNCAP (POLE & MDB),Far side (Pole & MDB) & AseanNCAP Regulations. Achieved better correlation between CAE & Physical Test for Q10 & Q6 Child Occupant in Frontal MPDB & Side AE MDB impact load cases. Achieved better correlation between CAE & Physical Test for Occupant in Side Pole impacts for EuroNCAP, USNCAP & FMVSS214 Side Pole impacts. Achieved better correlation between CAE & Physical Test for Occupants in Side MDB impacts for EuroNCAP, AseanNCAP Side MDB impacts. Evaluated Occupant Performances in all the side Pole & MDB impacts for ECE, FMVSS, USNCAP, EuroNCAP, and IIHS for US & UK markets. Achieved better structural correlation between CAE & Physical Tests in Side Pole & MDB impacts as per ECE, FMVSS, EuroNCAP, USNCAP & IIHS protocols. Worked in the past on Frontal, side & Rear structural development from scratch like Benchmarking & Load Path development in the Initial phase. Handled Battery sub-system load cases like Squeeze, Drop, shock, Bollard bump, Misuse/pot hole & standing load cases where analyses were done in Implicit LS-Dyna & Explicit LS-Dyna software. Worked exclusively on slow speed load cases like RCAR, ECER42 & FMVSS Part 581 & Quasi-static load cases like Roof Crush Strength, Static Door Intrusion & Seating Load cases. Co-ordination with client & extended team on design countermeasures & convincing them on the aspects of Cost & Packaging space. Worked exclusively on Battery level load cases like Squeeze, Bollard Bump, Drop, Shock, Stiffness, Misuse Pot whole & Standing Load etc.

Education

• Institution of Engineers of India (IEI), Kolkata

  Bachelor in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

  2007 — 2010

• SPPU EDUTECH FOUNDATION

  Master's Degree, Design and Visual Communications, General

• Saraswati Vidyalaya,koregaon

  High School

  1996 — 1999

• K.B.P. Plytechnic,Satara

  Diploma in Production Technology

  1999 — 2002

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Master's in Design Engineering , Mechanical Engineering

Skills

• Vehicles
• Finite Element Analysis
• Hypermesh
• Automotive
• Nastran
• Cae
• Engineering
• Catia
• Product Development
• Ptc Creo
• Ls-Dyna
• Automotive Engineering
• Abaqus
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing