Marcel Bos Email & Phone Number

Hoogerheide, North Brabant, Netherlands

Marknesse, The Netherlands

Marknesse, Flevoland, Netherlands

Marknesse, The Netherlands

Within the Gas Turbines & Structural Integrity department I have various responsibilities:(1) Manager of various programs related to the sustainment of military aircraft fleets(2) Domain expert on structural integrity(3) Acquisition

In 2005 I became the ICAF National Delegate for The Netherlands and in 2017 I was elected General Secretary. ICAF is an international professional association which aims to encourage contacts between people actively engaged in aircraft structural integrity problems and to exchange information, experience, opinions and ideas concerning aeronautical fatigue.

Leiden, The Netherlands

• Initially employed as a structures engineer, I soon became involved with many other aspects of space as well, including parachute systems, aerodynamic design and testing, system engineering, dynamic simulations.
• Guided Artillery Munition project
• Fokker 100 damage tolerance evaluation
• Fokker 70 gust loads calculations
• Fatigue consultancy
• Ariane-5 Booster Recovery System

Melbourne, Australia

During my one-year employment at ARL (the name then used by DST-G) I was responsible for specimen fatigue testing and the development and implementation of a fatigue crack closure model, reported in "Critical appraisal of the McDonnell Douglas closure model for predicting fatigue crack growth", M.J. Bos, ARL-STRUC-R-444, September 1991

Rijswijk, The Netherlands

In my position as a conscript officer in a weapon effectiveness programme I was involved with the study and modelling of the response of naval structures to blast loading, and the design & testing of blast resistant doors

Master’S Degree, Aerospace Engineering, Passed With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Active within student society "Sint Jansbrug". Practical training at Canadian Astronautics Ltd, Ottawa.Thesis.

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