User:NeedsGlasses

Hello, NeedsGlasses here.

The articles I focus on in Wikipedia seem to be mainly associated with my work experience. This may cover

• Aircraft
• Fatigue
• Aeroelasticity
• Material mechanisms

I have spent most of my time at Fishermans Bend at one organisation or another. I started out working in the Nomad design office on such things as the amphibian version of Nomad. We had just started using finite element models to determine the loads in the aircraft. Soon, I moved on to the flutter analysis of the new T-Tail version and propeller whirl flutter of a new composite propeller. The loss of the test aircraft with crew from trim tab flutter some years earlier was uppermost in our minds. I did the flutter analysis on the Wamira before the project was cancelled. I moved on to other places and projects such as barrier impact modelling and fatigue testing of the VN Commodore. I was involved in the fatigue testing of the F/A-18 Hornet, probabilistic fatigue analysis of F/A-18 and Boeing 707 aircraft and development of fatigue crack growth and striation formation models using fractography. I used molecular dynamics modelling of fatigue cracks to show the formation of dislocations and the effect of hydrogen embrittlement.