CAE Engineer Strength & Durability

Administrative reporting to Deputy General Manager

Background

Educational Qualification Essential: BE / B Tech (preferably Mechanical)

Desirable: ME / M Tech (preferably Mechanical Design or equivalent)

Experience

Minimum: 03 Maximum: 06

Job Role & Responsibilities:

Role: Vehicle Strength & Durability CAE Evaluation

Responsibilities:

• CAE Modelling – Mesh discretization, Assembly, Constraint & Load setting – for automotive sub-systems, primarily components related to Body & Chassis Structure & Closures.
• Carry out Strength & Durability analysis – Linear & Non-Linear cases.
• Interpretation of results, comprehending failure modes and providing directions for countermeasures for meeting performance criteria.
• Documentation of results and communication with stakeholders – design, testing – for implementation of failure countermeasures.
• Interact with Testing teams for analyzing failures, correlation of CAE results with physical testing results and making improvements in CAE model.
• Support in generation and evaluation of Value Enhancement proposals.

Competency Requirements:

Technical / Functional:

• Strong fundamentals in Strength of Materials, Machine design, Fatigue.
• Knowledge of Finite Element Analysis and related experience of working in Body Structures & Closures CAE domain.
• Basic knowledge of Automotive Body & Sheet metal design.
• Ability to prepare the CAE model in Hypermesh software, prepare input deck and perform analysis in Nastran & LS-Dyna software, perform postprocessing in Hyperview & LS Pre-Post.
• Working exposure in Fatigue evaluation – FEMFAT, MSC Fatigue, NCode- and Multibody software (like ADAMS) will be an added advantage.
• Basic exposure of Optimization softwares – Optistruct, Mode Frontier.
• Exposure to physical testing and ability to understand test conditions and its representation in CAE.
• Ability to suggest countermeasures for performance improvement.