Job#: 3044694 Job Description: Experienced Durability & Damage Tolerance (DaDT) Analysis Engineer
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Onsite)
Role Overview
Our organization is seeking an Experienced Structural Durability & Damage Tolerance (DaDT) Analyst to join the Air Vehicle Engineering team. A successful member of this team will understand and execute repairs, modifications, upgrades, and DaDT analysis for bomber programs. This role involves working under minimal direction to support product design and in-service products by investigating failures and analyzing improvements.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with methodology and processes for stress analysis, DaDT analysis, and finite element modeling.
- Perform Failsafe Analyses, durability life calculations, and determine Damage Tolerance for fracture-critical parts.
- Verify structural integrity by defining requirements for the development of analytical methods and finite element models/simulations.
- Ensure USAF Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) requirements are met for airframe analysis and validation.
- Calculate inspection intervals for fleet aircraft based upon calculated crack growth rates.
- Develop and use various Finite Element Models for crack growth coefficients.
- Support product design and verify structural integrity by using analytical methods and other analysis tools throughout the product lifecycle.
- Lead repair development, integration, and documentation of structural requirements to establish the system design.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering.
Experience: 10 or more years of experience in structural analysis and 10 or more years of experience in fracture, fatigue, and/or DaDT analysis.
Technical Skills:- Able to independently construct, execute, review, and manage structural finite element models in the area of DaDT.
- Expertise in linear elastic fracture mechanics.
- Expertise with Paris Law & Spectrum Analysis.
- Experience with classic crack growth analysis tools (such as NASGRO, AFGROW, GROWTH, NASA/FLAGRO, and/or BEAS).
- Strong written, verbal communications, and presentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with specific books on Durability and Damage Tolerance.
- Experience with Hypermesh, StressCheck, Abaqus CAE, and/or Nastran.
- Familiarity with Lifeworks.
- Graduate level or Senior level coursework in Fatigue & Fracture Mechanics.
- Experience validating or verifying finite element model results.
- Experience with structural design principles for aircraft primary structures (e.g., fatigue, damage tolerance, corrosion, stress analysis, statics, materials strength, material characteristics, and repair techniques).
- Experience with Aircraft Primary Structures on Commercial Derivatives - Commercial and/or Military applications.
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