Pratap Nandakumar

MRB Technical Lead authoring the Standard Operating Procedures, Structural Repairs Manual Contributing to Design for Manufacture, Testing, Certification, Reliability, and Maintainability Establishing the technical documentation for the Project Gated Reviews: Preliminary & Critical Liaising between the Design Organization and Production Organization for New Product Development through First Part Qualification and First Article Inspection

Airbus A350 XWB and A320neo Nacelle MRB Stress Analysis using MSC Nastran / Patran and BJSFM Revised the ADL with updated GFEM loads of Boeing 787-8 Nacelle Reproduced of the Certification Analysis Records as per UTC Aerostructures Standards Investigated the damages on the in-service aircraft and justified proposed design repair solution Signed 31 Repair Approval Documents on Metallic & Composite structures of Airbus A300, A320 Sharklet, A330 & A380 Educated 18 Analysts on Airbus Static, F & DT Methods

Conducted material characterization as per CMH-17 on the Woven Carbon Fabric Epoxy prepreg, UD Carbon Fabric Epoxy prepreg, and Fiberglass Epoxy prepreg specimens with Strain Gages Performed quasi-static and dynamic tests of thermoplastic specimens (PEEK) on MTS® electromechanical and MTS® servo-hydraulic test frames using MultiPurpose TestWare® (MPT™) and TestWorks® software Taught Composite Fabrication Techniques to the personnel from Airbus, Boeing, Spirit Aerosystems & Bombardier

Mechanics of Laminated Composites Continuum Mechanics Advanced Mechanics of Materials Mechanics of Damage Tolerance Finite Element Analysis Vibration Analysis Theory of Elasticity

Fluid Machinery Dynamics of Machinery Design of Machine Elements Manufacturing Process Control Engineering Operations Research Mechatronics Automotive Engineering Quality Management Computer Integrated Manufacturing Composite Materials Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems