Professional Carreer
| May 2009 to today | consulting engineer and managing director, tortuetec GmbH, Austria |
| January 2007 to May 2009 | project manager for the conception and implementation of a steel processing plant, Böhler-Uddeholm Precision Strip GmbH, Austria |
| February 2003 to August 2006 | scientist, Armines, France. Finite element method development for SNECMA aeroplane engines |
| December 2004 to March 2006 | scientist, AC2T Research GmbH, Wiener Neustadt. Minor employment for triboligical modeling and material modeling |
| January 2002 to October 2002 | military-scientific expert, Austrian armed forces, Austria |
| Internships | AVL, Ebner Industrieofenbau, Isovolta, Miba Sintermetall |
Education
| January 2003 to August 2006 | PhD, computational material science at École des Mines de Paris |
| September 1998 to September 1999 | Bachelor of Engineering, aerospace technology & composite materials at Technical University of Moscow (MGTU) |
| October 1994 to December 2001 | Diplomingenieur (master's degree), material science at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria |
| September 1990 to May 1994 | Matura (final secondary-school examinations) at BRG Fadingerstraße Linz |
| September 1986 to May 1990 | Vienna Boys Choir, school exams at BRG Albertgasse, Vienna |
Commercial Qualifications
| Business Planning | strategy development, positioning, business model canvas, value proposition canvas , financial planning |
| Administration | business management, personnel management, controlling, risk management |
| Marketing | marketing planning, web marketing, presentations, conference talks |
| Sales | sales planning, sales process execution, proposals |
| Project Management | contract design, contract negotiation, contract management, cost controlling |
Management
- technical and commercial project management for planning and implementing a steel processing plant, Böhler-Uddeholm Precession Strip GmbH
- technical project management with tortuetec GmbH
- business management and personnel management with tortuetec GmbH
Material and Part Testing
- tensile tests, compression tests, cyclical tests at -40°C to 200°C
- development and application of test methods
- for measuring nonlinear, time dependent properties of polymers
- for measuring anisotropic, thermo-mechanical material properties
- for measuring size dependent material properties
- for the evaluation of meso and macro scale material heterogeneity
- specimen preparation from parts
- measurement of thermo-mechanical properties of parts
- specimen design (stress gradients, stability, alignment sensitivity, …)
- start-up of a test laboratory
Material Modeling
- modeling of thermo-mechanical, cyclical, time- and temperature dependent properties of unreinforced and particle reinforced polymers (PE, PP, PA, POM, PTFE)
- modeling of water diffusion (humidity) in PA
- multi scale modeling of production route dependent (anisotropic and heterogeneous) thermo-mechanical properties of sheet molding compounds (SMC)
- micro-macro modeling (homogenisation, FEA) of titanium alloy using crystal plasticity
- thermo-mechanical modeling of polymer forming in finite strains, including necking/instability, strain hardening and viscoplasticity
- modeling of asymmetric tension-compression behavior of polymers
- multi kinematic Chaboche material models for modeling cyclic plasticity and strain ratchetting of metals
- application of abaqus material models to polymers and metals (2-layer model, PRN, hyperelasticity (Arruda-Boyce, Marlow, …), creep, …)
- thermo-mechanical viscoplastic Chaboche-type material models of steel and aluminium automotive powertrain components
- creation of fatigue models of short fiber reinforced polymers and SMC materials using FEMFAT
- implementation of fatigue postprocessing routine using the FKM guideline
Structural Simulation
- coupled thermo-mechanical FEA (Abaqus)
- forming simulation (Abaqus, CodeAster)
- crash simulation of polymer components (Abaqus Explicit)
- fatigue prediction (FEMFAT, Z-set, CodeAster, own code)
- wear simulation (Z-set with plugins)
- linear and nonlinear stability problems
- thermal simulation taking convection, conduction and radiation into account (CodeSaturn + Syrthes)
- simulation of local water content in plastics specimens (CodeAster)
- participation in the simulation and evaluation of injection molding of fiber reinforced polymers (Moldex)
Process Development
- basaltic fiber drawing process (experimentation and simulation)
- hardening, rolling, grinding, polishing of steel strip and wire (experimentation and simulation)
- batch processing and continuous processing of plastics: sintering, heat treatment, forming (experimentation and simulation)
System Development
- specification of equipment for steel strip processing
- calculation, design and implementation of equipment for basaltic fiber production
Component Development
- injection molded, fiber reinforced, thermoplastic parts
- hardened steel springs
Coding, Software Development
| Python | development of libraries for planning, executing, evaluating and documenting tests and simulations |
| C++ | development of wear simulation and plugins for Z-set |
| Fortan | user subroutines for CodeSaturn und CodeAster |
| gawk | FKM guideline based fatigue post processing for CodeAster, format converters |
- Readability of code, code design, documentation and testing.
Languages
| German | mother tongue |
| English | business fluent |
| French | conversant |
| Russian | conversant |
Publications
- T. Dick and R. Foerch, “Appropriate material models for the computation of plug-in and pull-out forces of a polymer clip,” in Deutschen Simulia Konferenz 25.-26.09.2014 in Dresden, 2014.
- T. Dick, K. Lagler, R. Foerch, and W. Stipper, “Lifetime prediction for reinforced plastics in powertrain applications,” in FEMFAT Users Meeting, 2015 [Online]. Available: https://femfat.magna.com/de/eventsnews/femfat-usermeeting-archiv/2010-2019/austria-2015/downloaddetail/lifetime-prediction-for-reinforced-plastics-in-powertrain-applications/
- T. Dick and N. Osipov, “Advanced material modeling using Ansys with Z-set,” in ANSYS Conference & 29. CADFEM Users’ Meeting 2011. DVD-ROM : Die Fachkonferenz zur numerischen Simulation; Anwendervorträge, Software-Neuheiten, Kompaktseminare, 2011.
- T. Dick and G. Cailletaud, “Numerical modelling in fretting of Ti6Al4V including crystal plasticity,” in La tribologie dans les transports (de l’analyse du contact… à la fiabilité des systèmes), 2006, pp. 75–84.
- T. Dick, “Modélisation multiéchelle du phénomène de fretting dans le contact aube-disque,” École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, 2006 [Online]. Available: https://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00136828
- T. Dick and G. Cailletaud, “Analytic and FE based estimations of the coefficient of friction of composite surfaces,” Wear, vol. 260. pp. 1305–1316, 2006 [Online]. Available: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043164805004254
- F. Franek, A. Pauschitz, V. E. Lazarev, G. Vorlaufer, T. Dick, and R. Jisa, “Complex micromodel analysis of wearing contact interfaces,” in World Tribology Congress III, Volume 1, 2005.
- T. Dick, C. Paulin, G. Cailletaud, and S. Fouvry, “Experimental and numerical analysis of local and global plastic behaviour in fretting wear,” Tribology International, vol. 39. pp. 1036–1044, 2006 [Online]. Available: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301679X0600048X
- T. Dick, S. Basseville, and G. Cailletaud, “Fatigue modelling in fretting contact with a crystal plasticity model,” Computational Materials Science, vol. 43. pp. 36–42, 2008 [Online]. Available: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927025607002169
- René Treffler, T. Dick, E. Ladstätter, and Jürgen Fröschl, “Einsatz wirrfaserverstärkter Duroplaste in thermomechanisch belasteten Strukturbauteilen im Fahrzeugbau,” Materials Testing, vol. 58. Carl Hanser Verlag, pp. 644–651, 2016 [Online]. Available: https://www.hanser-elibrary.com/doi/abs/10.3139/120.110898
- T. Dick and G. Cailletaud, “Fretting modelling with a crystal plasticity model of Ti6Al4V,” Computational Materials Science, vol. 38. pp. 113–125, 2006 [Online]. Available: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927025606000358
- R. Treffler, T. Dick, Jürgen Fröschl, K. Drechsler, and E. Ladstätter, “Modelling and simulation of randomly oriented carbon fibre-reinforced composites under thermal load,” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 119. IOP Publishing, p. 012002, 2016 [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1757-899x%2F119%2F1%2F012002
- T. Dick, E. Heripre, and G. Cailletaud, “Prediction of fatigue and wear in dovetail joints between blade and disk in aeroplane turbo-engines,” in ÖTG-Symposium, 2010 [Online]. Available: https://www.oetg.at/fileadmin/Dokumente/oetg/Proceedings/Inhaltsverzeichnis/Symposium-2010_content.pdf
- K. Unterweger, Th. Dick, R. Pippan, and O. Kolednik, “The local composite architecture of MMCs-Effects on the local deformation and fracture behavior,” Journal de Physique IV (Proceedings), vol. 105. EDP Sciences, pp. 115–122, 2003.
