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Programming of an Application for Power Cable Steady State and Transient Ampacity Rating. Executed Tasks: Steady State and Time Transient Ampacity Rating for Up to 21 Single Core or Three Core Power Cables with respect to mutual heating. The following installations were considered: a. Simple buried cable systems b. Buried cables in Air filled ducts (Metallic or concrete) c. Buried cables in bentonite filled ducts (Metallic or concrete) Applied Tools: Matlab 8, Ms Excel 2010, Ms Word 2010.

Modelling, Analysis and Optimization of Vehicle Parts and Assembly Groups. Applied Tools: Hypermesh 8, Optistruct 8, HyperView 8; ANSA 12, MD Patran 2004, MD Nastran 2004, Altair Data Manager, MS Office 2003.

Modelling and Analysis of Automotive Doors and Tailgates. Applied Tools: ANSA 12.1, Abaqus 6.6.2, Excel 2003, Animator 3.

Implementing of a Bead Optimization Feature in CAE Software: SFE Concept 3 Executed Tasks: a. Definition of the Optimization Problem with SFE Concept and NX Nastran. b. Definition of the initial state: minimal bead size, number of beads, positioning of the beads. Applied Tools: SFE CONCEPT 3, NX NASTRAN, ANIMATOR 3.

Analysis of the influence of the structural forms on the cavity frequencies. Applied Tools: SFE CONCEPT 3, SFE AKUSMOD, NX NASTRAN, ANIMATOR 3, MATHEMATICA 5, MS Office 2003.

Elaboration of a decisional dashboard for the equipment's maintenance. Applied Tools: MS ACCESS 97, VISUAL BASIC 5.

Finit Element Method and Numerical Simulation in general

Plant Maintenance and Reliability Calculations.