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Athens Metropolitan Area

Athens Metropolitan Area

• Responsible for stress analysis and sizing optimization of aerospace structures (primary, secondary, and tertiary) and support equipment according to ECSS structural design requirements.
• Developed and verified high-fidelity global and local finite element models to derive internal loads and perform detailed static stress analysis.
• Performed various types of finite element analysis to ensure structural integrity for the above structures under the most critical load events throughout their lifetime:
• Linear Static
• Linear Buckling & Modal Analysis
• Nonlinear Static & Buckling Analysis

Greater Volos Area

• Designed and sized a metallic MGSE (Mechanical Ground Support Equipment) dedicated to the maintenance of the AH-64 Apache main transmission system.
• Analyzed and interpreted official engineering drawings, assisting military helicopter mechanics with the assembly and disassembly of critical components (tail rotor dampers) on Bell UH-1 helicopters.

Patras, Western Greece, Greece

• Performed thermo-mechanical analysis on a morphing airfoil using Abaqus/CAE, demonstrating the capability of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) actuators on large-scale wind turbine blades.
• Developed a Matlab tool to define the optimal mounting positions for SMA actuators on the morphing mechanism, improving its kinematic and structural response.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computational Mechanics

Specialization in the division of Computational Structural Mechanics. ‣Focus Areas: Mechanics of Materials, Computational Techniques and.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Mechanical Engineering And Aeronautics

Specialization in the division of Applied Mechanics, Technology of Materials and Biomechanics. ‣Focus Areas: Structural Analysis.