Product Engineering duties within Mattr composites businesses including Xerxes, Hydrochain, and Flexpipe.Xerxes: dual-contained, underground storage for fuel, water, wastewater and stormwaterHydrochain: stormwater management including pretreatment, filtration, storage, and conveyanceFlexpipe: a high-pressure and temperature, corrosion-resistant composite for gathering, recovery, injection or water transportationMattr’s work started over 50 years ago, formerly as Shawcor and now rebranded as Mattr, and continues to grow through the acquisition of these market-leading brands. Mattr is a materials technology company broadly serving critical infrastructure markets, including transportation, communication, water management, energy and electrification. We operate through a network of global manufacturing facilities. Our two business segments, Composite Technologies and Connection Technologies develop products, equipment, and systems solutions that enable responsible renewal and enhancement of infrastructure that truly has a generational impact.

Expanded Product Engineering duties to include supporting Xerxes

Expanded duties to manage simulation and high-performance computing (HPC) resources

Product Engineering duties within Flexpipe, supporting also Manufacturing and Applications group

►Fundamentals & Application of FEM in Mech. Analysis (Fall 2015)-Strong/weak form, principle of virtual work, Galerkin's & FE method formulation, 1/2/3D elastostatics, global stiffness matrix and assembly, isoparametric formulation, Gaussian quadrature, integration order, classical/shear deformation theory in beams/plates, linear buckling and geometric stiffness matrix-Instructors: R. Perera, A. Carnicero►Advanced Nonlinearities (Winter 2016)-Path following techniques, stability and nonlinear buckling, linearized deformation gradient, Green/ Almansi strain tensor, Cauchy and 1st/2nd Piola-Kirchoff stress tensor, total/updated Lagrangian formulation, plasticity and von-Mises/Tresca/Drucker-Prager yield surface, hardening/flow rules, strain energy density function, isotropic/(in)compressible hyperelasticity, viscoelasticity and combined Maxwell/Kelvin-Voigt models, Prony series, viscoplasticity, Saint Venant solid combined network models, rate dependent plasticity, creep-Instructors: A. Fraile, L. Hermanns►Dynamic Analysis (Fall 2016)-SDOF systems: (un)damped response, base/force excitation, general dynamic loading (convolution integral, Duhamel Integral, Piecewise Exact Method), damping estimation. MDOF systems: consistent/ lumped mass matrices, static condensation, Hamilton’s Principle, Lagrange Equations. Modal analysis: real- and complex-valued mode decomposition, superposition, Rayleigh damping, eigenvalue extraction methods. Harmonic Excitation: coupled equations of motion or mode superposition, FRFs, mass participation factors, truncation error. Response Spectrum and Power Spectral Density: single- and multi-point RS analysis, generation of response spectra, modal combination rules and correlation, random excitation. Introduction to rotordynamics and explicit dynamics.-Instructors: A. Fraile, L. Hermanns►Thesis (Fall 2017 & Winter 2018)-"High Performance Carbon Fiber Composite Road Bike Design with the FEM"-Supervisor: R. Perera