Joseph Kovacs

Education:

- Tertiary 2000 – 2003
Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) – Honours 1st Class
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- Majored in Computational Engineering
- Completed final year project in partnership with GM Holden – “Finite Element Modelling of Suspension Bush Properties”
- Achieved high distinction average in Mathematics, Thermo/Fluid Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Engineering CAD and Computational Engineering

Awards:

- Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) – PhD Scholarship
- Holden VSAS CAE Scholarship – Final year project
- Magee Prize – Best final year student in Mechanical Design and Drafting

Computer Skills:

Pre-processors
ABAQUS/CAE: Advanced
HyperMesh: Advanced
PATRAN: Intermediate
ANSA: Intermediate

Solvers
ABAQUS/Standard: Advanced
ABAQUS/Explicit: Advanced
LS-Dyna: Intermediate
NASTRAN: Advanced

CAD
SolidWorks: Advanced
CATIA: Intermediate
Unigraphics NX: Familiar
SFE Concept: Advanced

Programming
Java / C++: Familiar
Visual Basic: Familiar
Perl: Familiar

General
Microsoft Office: Advanced
Windows (All Flavours): Advanced
UNIX (All Flavours): Intermediate

Computer Aided Design specific skills:

Areas of expertise include:
• Advanced Surface Modelling.
• Assemblies.
• Parametric Modelling.
• Simulation.
• Import/Export of neutral file formats.

Finite Element Analysis skills:
• Advanced knowledge of the ABAQUS/CAE user interface.
• Manual scripting and editing of input decks.
• Importing/Exporting parts and assemblies
• Linear and nonlinear analysis (static and dynamic).
• Implicit and explicit analysis.
• Assembly and interaction definition.
• Contact Definition: Master-slave contact (including rigid-rigid and rigid-deformable contact), general contact.
• Crash analysis, quasi-static analysis.
• Post-processing: Cartesian data, animations, overlay plots.
• Multi-disciplinary optimisation (full factorial and fractional factorial), data mining.

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