Thomas Dick, PhD
| Phone | +43-664-1316535 |
| Address | Stutterheimstrasse 16-18/3/13, 1150 Vienna, Austria |
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 |