Dr.A K Dhulipalla.

07954040509
dhulipallak@gmail.com
Profile
 Test Engineer, Mechanical Designer, and Quality Control Technician.
 Plan, coordinate, and perform product testing, data reduction, and resource
management to achieve project goals.
 Designing and carrying out tests of mechanical products.
 Fixture design and modal analysis of mechanical test fixtures.
 Mechanical validation testing and data acquisition.
 Automate mechanical tests.
 Metallurgy and data acquisition analysis.
 Design fixtures and perform mechanical test analysis, statistical analysis and data
acquisition systems
(Twelve years of work experience involving)
 Materials, Lubrication (EHL), computational design and analysis, Thermodynamics.
 Design of gears and bearings moving at very high speeds used in aeronautical engines,
Centrifugal compressors, turbo machinery, Steam & Gas turbines, Reciprocating
Compressors.
 Analyses of mechanical systems: linear & nonlinear static and dynamic, modal, dynamic
response, contact, design of experiments, construction of testing rigs, experimentation.
 Tribology, Surface Technology and Characterization, Materials, Lubrication,
computational analysis & Design of Machine elements moving at very high speeds.
Career
2018 Friction Coefficient Test Consultant TEI, Turkey
Establish Material Testing Laboratory, testing protocols, rig design and testing. Materials
characterisation and database development for material testing.
2017-2018 Research Engineer Vignan University, India
Setting up a Tribological Laboratory for a Mechanical Research center. Machinery
selection and setup.
2016- 2017 Technical Author for Research Proposal at Cardiff University
Write up a Research Proposal for a project.
2012-2016 Senior Test Engineer Jaguar Land Rover, UK
Hydraulic rigs for full body, structural, and components. Reconfiguring the test rig as per
the requirement of test. Part of rig construction testing using RPC, and report writing.
2009-2012 Research Test Engineer Infotech Enterprises GmBh, UK
Correlating the results of the NDT test with the original by testing parts including all the
accessories. The complete work includes hydraulic rig testing by crash and impact,
buckling, engines performance, acoustics and noise, vibration, temperature test ranging
from -20oC to 50oC.
2006-2009 Test Engineer (R & D Co ordinator) Linpac Allibert, UK
Work amalgamates design using SolidEdge, analysis and meshing in ANSYS and then
testing the final product performing a series of different kinds of tests as impact test, load
test, density of the material, Both Hydraulic and Pnuematic test rigs are reconfigured for
the test.
2005-2006 Materials Researcher Cardiff University, UK
Testing different combinations of lubrications, materials, and coatings. Buliding of the test
rig to test metallic and non mettalic materials, lubrication, material failure, coatings. Writing
research proposals, attending conferences are part of the academic work for the university.
Education/Qualifications
2018 MBA Essentials
London school of Economics and Polotical Sciences (LSE), London, UK
2002-2005, PhD (Materials/Mechanical/Surface Engineering)
Tribology Group, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
1997-2001, B Tech (Mechanical Engineering)
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India
Projects
 Configuring RPC software for the Multi Axle Road Simulator and Multi Axis suspension
test System with 16 channels. (Jaguar Land Rover, UK)
 Steering Rig Configuration and data analyses. (Jaguar Land Rover, UK)
 Scrag testing the elastomers of top mounts in dampers, and twisting the dampers for
the axial dislocation (70oC to -40oC). (Jaguar Land Rover, UK)
 Fatigue test for different kinds of material joints (Jaguar Land Rover, UK)
 Testing and Validation of all the parts delivered by different suppliers for the erection of
combined cycle plant. (Siemens, UK)
 Configuration of the test plan and test protocol for comparing the FE analysis to the
prototypes developed using various testing methods. (Infotech GMBH, UK)
 Material Characterisation and Surface Topography for the failed products in the process
of Power generation in Turbines. (Infotech GMBH, UK)
 Maintenance and surface analyses of turbine blade coatings when the product has a
surface failure used in power plants, (Altsom, India)
 Tooling, die prototypes for various new designs. Implementing RFID tagging in all the
new designs and protocol for the testing of the RFID tags. (Linpac Allibert, UK)
 TYTAN, project implementation, Test process planning, timing plan, manufacturing
details, material selection & testing. (Linpac Allibert, UK)
 Design and Testing of the pin joint in a 3CX and 4CX machine hydraulic arm involving
material considerations, manufacturing and coatings. (ANSYS Parametric Design
Language) (JCB UK & University of Sheffield)
 Combination of testing different lubricants, materials and coatings in material failure.
Scuffing performance of polished and ground surfaces at different sliding speeds
(Rolls-Royce Project)
 Investigate lubrication with different hard coatings with variable thickness on Helicopter
Gears and Bearings Scuffing Performance (Pratt & Whitney, USA)
 Surface Characterization using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
(United Technologies Research Centre (UTRC), USA)
 Numerical Work on Line Contact Elasto-Hydrodynamic Lubrication (EHL)
(University of Pisa, Italy)
 Isothermal EHL transient analyses run using heat partition model for inlet lubricant
temperature (Cardiff University, UK)
Computer Skills
 Programming and analysing analytical solutions for theoretical problems in FORTRAN,
MATLAB, LABVIEW, TECPLOT, DASYLAB V9
 Hypermesh, LS Dyna, Gambit, Fluent.
 Experience in mechanical design and drafting software’s Solid Edge V20, Ansys V11,
Pro/E 2001, CATIA v 5.4, and Auto CAD
 RPC, MTS Software
I certify that all the above information is true and could be accounted for
Dr. Dhulipalla Ajay Krishna