Corporate Experience

• Meshed various parts of the vehicle and set up simulations on LS-DYNA for frontal and side crashes.
• Analyzed the effect of certain cost down initiatives on structural integrity of the car and occupant protection and provided suggestions for improvement.
• Developed a novel side impact sled simulation to replicate the kinematics of a full vehicle crash. I had full ownership of this project and built this setup from scratch. The aim was to find an alternative to full vehicle crash tests for side crashes to make it more cost effective. This setup will help in tuning various restraint parameters (airbags and seat-belts) using only the subsystems involved with side crashes, thus resulting in huge savings.

• We had a diverse team of four engineering students from Stanford and three graphic design students from Swinburne University, Australia working on this year long project sponsored by Panasonic.

Smart baby-proofing in homes

• The initial prompt given to us was to explore reconfigurable living spaces for millennials in line with Panasonic's smart home initiative.
• We developed a functional prototype of a dynamic baby-proofing system that would remain active by default but would deactivate in the presence of an adult in the vicinity.
• The motivation was to reduce the inconvenience caused by baby-proofing devices to millennial parents without compromising on the safety of the child.

Koko: Attachment to electric scooters for kids

• Halfway through the project, Panasonic changed the prompt and asked us to explore solutions in the field of mobility for millennials.
• We built a baby-carrier which could be attached to ride-share electric scooters and also be reconfigured to be pushed around like a regular stroller.

• Worked with the GE90 High Pressure Compressor team in GE Aviation at their R&D center - JFWTC, Bengaluru, India.
• Executed a crack propagation analysis to model high cycle fatigue failure of defective blades by introducing notches and holes in the existing blade design to examine their performance.
  
• Performed simulations using ANSYS to evaluate quantities critical to failure and crack propagation such as stress concentration factors and shift in frequencies of vibration.
• Estimated the number of functional cycles of the blade, thereby maximizing its life without compromising on safety.