Santosh Phanindra K

CAE Crash And Occupant Safety Engineer, Innovator,Mentor

Experienced Sr. CAE Analyst with 9+ years of experience in vehicle development simulations for various OEMs. and possess extensive background in engineering principles, project leadership. • Bringing forth extensive experience in performing research on product development processes and offering solutions and alterations with Root cause analysis• Adept in working with engineers and project managers at multiple levels to effectively and achieve optimal results.

New CAE Method developments, Test Vs CAE correlations, Airbag development,Regulations

• Telugu (Native)
• Hindi (Proficiency)
• English (Proficient)
• German(level B1)
• Tamil ( Elementary)

Global certification in data science & Ml ,INSAID Jan 2023

Mercedes Benz organisation level german B1 Certification

KEY PROJECTS:

BMW Group ,Munich, Germany deputed from Satven :

Full vehicle Side Crash simulations for Sedan and SUV platforms to achieve targets as per internal requirements. Counter Measures on BIW,airbags ,Seats whenever necessary.

Physical test ,Component Simulations validations with tests .

Robustness Evaluations, Virtual Sled Analysis for ENCAP and China NCAP requirements

TATA Motors Ltd. India

System level simulations and analysis to achieve 5 star GNCAP rating for given program. Physical test Validations and correlations.

Robustness Evaluations,Sled test evaluations

Mercerdes-Benz RD India:

FMVSS208 OoP Model: To build the crash OoP model for 4 different load cases and evaluate the injuries under deploying PAB loads. Necessary counter measures are taI‹en to optimize injuries.

Push away validations: To Validate PAB to special component tests for OoP and build an optimized PAB in coordination with In Position Teams& Supplier Synergies.

Renault Nissan Technology and Business Cenfre India Pvt Ltd

Frontal impact setting and Analysis for SmallOverLap: Scope of this project is to evaluate the structural intrusion for the given frame vehicle (King Cab). Model is prepared asper provided data and co-related to physical test.

In addition to structural setting Dummies are positioned as per data, Belt routing is done and injury is evaluated. Injury is not up to the target. Counter Measure study is suggested by tuning restraint system.

Satyam-Venture Engineering Services Pvt Ltd

Full CAB deployment model, SAB model Correlation: The complete FEA model of Curtain airbag (CAB) assembly in vehicle environment is developed by meshing of airbag and its surrounding parts. Folding, positioning and relaxation of airbag are done in next step. Then deployment deck is prepared using the customer provided inflator data, materials etc.

Volume calculation of Curtain Airbag, Side Airbag: Scope of this project is to evaluate the new airbag design in terms of its volume capacity, head positions coverage. Customer (ZF) provides the bag geometry and material properties.

Folding for Passenger and Knee Airbags: Provided flat bag geometry is meshed 2D shell elements as per standards.

Stitching is done as per provided drawing and proceed for folding through a parameterized sequence of steps, i.e., scripted xml with parameters.

Patent :

1.System and methods for deploying airbag in vehicle

IN 202211056468 · Issued Oct 1, 2022

AWARDS :

Mercedes Benz Bronze Award -2021

For relentless efforts in CAE method development for OoP

Nissan best GM Award -2019

Cost and Mass reduction study for Suv and synergy strategy

Satven Pat on back award -2017

FTR and OTD in airbag folding and validated models

LSDYNA, Primer, T/HIS,D3plot

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