Pavankumar K Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

India

Bengaluru Area, India

• Role and responsibility:
• Suggesting design changes of seat surfaces to meet H-point, Torso Angle and Comfort targets and participating in technical discussions.
• To find opportunities for efficiency improvement in current CAE process.
• New CAE method development.
• Technically guiding a team of 8 members (4-Direct,4-Suppliers) working on seat comfort projects.
• Managing the work load of the team along with manager, interacting with regional CAE teams on program updates and deliverables.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Role and responsibility:
• One of the two key members to start CAE Seat Comfort in General motors Globally.
• Assessed PAM-COMFORT tool capability to be added in to Global seat development process for the first time in General motors Globally.
• One of the key member in decision making to shift to CASIMIR/Abaqus solver along with North America CAE Seat Comfort expert.
• Insight in to the aspects of human anthropometry and it's impact on the seat comfort perception.
• Fair know how of Ergonomics tool Ramsis for occupant posture generation and occupant accommodation.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Role and responsibility:
• Multi-step sheet metal forming using Hyper-form in Ls-Dyna Explicit.
• Linear static analysis in Nastran.
• Non-Linear static analysis in Abaqus Standard.
• Meshing plastic components.Tools/Solvers: Nastran,Abaqus,Optistruct, Metal forming using Hyperform,LS-Dyna, Plastic parts meshing Using Hypermesh.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area And Florida, Miami

• Role and responsibility:
• Responsible for linear static analysis of aerospace interiors.
• Hex-meshing of Aerospace seating legs.Worked on hybrid meshing of legs and spreader seats of an airplane seat,linear static analysis using optistruct,seat dynamic testing using LS-dyan,stud pull off,food tray table.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Role and responsibility:
• Metal forming expert-Multi Step, One step, Spring back analysis for die compensation.
• Linear static analysis of car closures, Grab handles (AK-Steel, Steel Supplier for Ford,USA).
• Topology, Gauge and Topography optimization.
• Non linear static analysis of plastic components.
• Composite component analysis using Hyper-Laminate.

Bengaluru Area, India

Internship project- Tube hydro forming of T-Tube to improve the neck height (Using Hyper-form and Ls-Dyna)Hydro formed parts have lesser welds and the components integrity and performance, Maintenance issues and weight of component can be reduced.Project involves improvement of Hydro formed T-Joint neck height by variation of parameters like steel material.

M.E, Production

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering Production