Reviewed by someone qualified to judge.
The review standard applied to every IDAC deliverable is set by one person's credentials — so it is worth being specific about what they are.
Dr Kiran Bhagate
Director and Technical Head
Dr Bhagate directs IDAC's engineering practice and personally reviews work carrying certification or safety consequence.
His doctorate, from the University of Leeds, is in computational mechanics — the mathematics underlying the simulation software most engineers use as a black box. His research covered design sensitivity analysis and optimisation of composite laminates, including development of finite element code in C.
He is a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, United Kingdom, and serves as a Professional Simulation Engineer Assessor for NAFEMS — the international association for engineering modelling, analysis and simulation. NAFEMS appoints a small number of assessors to judge whether other engineers' simulation competence meets the international standard; each application is reviewed by two independent assessors, and the scheme is audited by the Engineering Council.
He has delivered over 400 hours of industrial training in finite element analysis and explicit dynamics in the United Kingdom, and has developed customised finite element courses for both industrial engineers and university students.
Qualifications
Academic and professional record:
- PhD Computational Mechanics, University of Leeds, UK, 2008
- MTech Structural Engineering, IIT Guwahati, 2004 — Department Rank 1
- BE Civil Engineering, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, 2002 — University Rank 1
- CEng Chartered Engineer, IMechE, UK, 2013
- PSE Assessor Professional Simulation Engineer Assessor, NAFEMS
- GATE 2002 — All India Rank 147
- Overseas Research Student Award, University of Leeds, 2004
Technical record
Research and practice areas span linear and non-linear structural mechanics; structural dynamics including modal, harmonic, response spectrum and full transient analysis; fatigue assessment; explicit dynamics; and computational fluid dynamics.
His project record from 2008 covers offshore platform substructures, FPSO turret and mooring systems, subsea connectors, pressure vessels, nuclear components, wind turbine towers, aerospace vibration assessment, and process and infrastructure structures — across the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, East Asia and India.
The wider team
IDAC's engineering team numbers more than thirty and is expanding across analysis, design and the new Plant 3D practice.
Want a technical conversation?
For work with certification or safety consequence, the first conversation is with our technical director directly.