Dan Cojocaru

Current

• Development Engineer at Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.

Past

• Associate Development Engineer at Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
• Research Assistant at University of Delaware
• Engineer at Cybernetics Ltd, Romania

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Education

• University of Delaware
• Universitatea 'Politehnica' din Bucuresti
• Universitatea 'Politehnica' din Bucuresti

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Dan Cojocaru’s Summary

Ph.D., M.S., B.S.in Mechanical Engineering with strong experience in numerical modeling and programming. Very passionate about computational mechanics, numerical methods and developing programming codes related to these fields.

Dan Cojocaru’s Specialties:

- Solid mechanics, Computational mechanics
- Finite element modeling, ABAQUS, ABAQUS Scripting Interface
- Programming, Python, Visual C++, MFC, SQL, FORTRAN
- CATIA v5, CADDS5i, AutoCAD

Dan Cojocaru’s Experience

• Development Engineer

  Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Work on development of Abaqus/Standard, Implicit Contact.

• Associate Development Engineer

  Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.

  (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

  October 2008 — June 2009 (9 months)

• Research Assistant

  University of Delaware

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2004 — August 2008 (4 years 1 month)

  Investigated failure mechanisms in advanced multi-material structures with emphasis on thermo-mechanical fatigue of thermal barrier coatings. Developed finite element models and performed analyses for solid structures using ABAQUS. Designed and programmed computational schemes (in context of finite element method) using ABAQUS, Python language, ABAQUS Scripting Interface and FORTRAN. Coded various subroutines for ABAQUS, including constitutive responses in UMAT user subroutine. Coded programs for FEM related pre-/post-processing tasks. Programmed finite element software (including the support mathematical library) in Visual C++. Provided ABAQUS support to undergraduate research assistants in Computational Mechanics Lab. Administrated and maintain the computers in the Computational Mechanics Lab.

• Engineer

  Cybernetics Ltd, Romania

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2000 — August 2003 (3 years )

  Designed and developed software solutions (based on MS SQL Server, Visual C++, MFC, ODBC, DAO technologies).
  Prepared training courses and provided training and technical support for CATIA V5 and CADDS 5i software for CAD modeling and NC machining (i.e. CAM) applications.
  Developed and maintained the company web-site (www.cybernetics.ro).

Dan Cojocaru’s Education

• University of Delaware

  Ph.D. , Mechanical Engineering , 2003 — 2008

  Publications:
  
  -D. Cojocaru, A.M. Karlsson, "On The Effective Elastic Properties of Macroscopically Isotropic Media Containing Randomly Dispersed Spherical Particles", Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology (accepted, August 2009)
  
  -D. Cojocaru, A.M. Karlsson, "Assessing Plastically Dissipated Energy as a Condition for Fatigue Crack Growth", International Journal of Fatigue 31 (2009), pp. 1154-1162
  
  -D. Cojocaru, A. M. Karlsson,"An object-oriented approach for modeling and simulation of crack growth in cyclically loaded structures" Advances in Engineering Software 39(12): 995-1009 (2008)
  
  -D. Cojocaru, A.M. Karlsson, “A simple numerical method of cycle jumps for cyclically loaded structures”, International Journal of Fatigue, 28 (12) 1677-1689 (2006)

• Universitatea 'Politehnica' din Bucuresti

  MS , Solid Mechanics , 2000 — 2001

  Department of Strength of Materials
  
  Publications:
  
  -D. Cojocaru, S.D. Pastrama, P.M.S.T. de Castro, "Finite element weight function application for a cracked disk", International Journal of Fracture 116: L9-14, 2002.
  
  -D. Cojocaru, S.D. Pastrama, “Study of Radial Cracks in Hollow Disks Using Weight Function Method” , Bulletin of Romanian Association of Fracture Mechanics , No. 12 – May 2002 (in Romanian)

• Universitatea 'Politehnica' din Bucuresti

  Diploma Engineer, MS+BS , Mechanical Engineering , 1995 — 2000

  Summa cum laude

Additional Information

Dan Cojocaru’s Interests:

- Numerical modeling and simulation of failure mechanisms in advanced solid structures - Computational fracture mechanics - Computational mechanics - Computational methods in materials science - Finite element methods - Visualization libraries - Programming and Numerical methods in general

Dan Cojocaru’s Groups:

American Academy of Mechanics,
United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)

•    Python Community
•    SoftwareEngineering
•    ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
•    POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest
•    University of Delaware Graduates
•    CAD FEM CFD Engineering
•    Friends of Romania - Business, Professional and Social network
•    Dassault Systemes
•    NAFEMS
•    C++ Developers Group
•    PLM Group
•    University Of Delaware Alumni Network
•    C++ Professionals
•    Computational Scientists & Engineers
•    CAE professionals
•    Finite Element Analysis
•    ABAQUS
•    COMSOL Multiphysics
•    SIAM
•    Mechanics and Materials
•    SIMULIA
•    Liga Studentilor Romani din Strainatate
•    TCM / IMST

Dan Cojocaru’s Honors:

University Dissertation Fellowship, University of Delaware, 2007-2008
College of Engineering Graduate Fellowship, University of Delaware, 2003-2004
Head of Graduated Series Award, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 2000
Scholarship for Outstanding Achievements, University Politehnica of Bucharest,awarded 3 times 1997-2000

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