Daron Libby

Background

About Daron Libby

Taught Intro and Advanced Patran, FEMAP and NASTRAN classes throughout the USA, Japan, England, Singapore, Korea, China, Poland, and Germany. • Completed consulting projects for many Fortune 500 companies including Gillette, Pratt Whitney, Westinghouse, American Bureau of Shipping, Corning, MacNeil Schwendler, and BAE Systems. Specialties: PATRAN, NASTRAN, PCL and FORTRAN programming, finite element analysis (FEM), Patran PCL user interface design, Patran and Nastran training, strength assessment of mechanical systems, Random Vibration, 3D modeling and analysis. • Patran/Nastran stress analysis simulations for design feasibility & strength assessment studies • Finite element modeling and analysis of large structures such as containership bridge and lashing, bulk carrier corrugated bulkhead progressive collapse, space shuttle fuselage and assembly components, airframe shock, fatigue and random vibration, 3D water pumps, automotive components, crane assemblies inside wind turbine structures • Development of PCL-based user-interface tool sets for custom PATRAN modeling for American Bureau of Shipping/Lloyd’s Register hull strength assessment program for tankers and bulk carriers (2012 – 2015) • Detailed stress analysis of bolts, welds, spot welds subject to torsional and centrifugal spin up forces, threaded connections, and surgical implants • Material selection - metals, acrylics, composites, fiberglass, plastic, structural foam, adhesive and alloys • Nonlinear plastic strain, snap-back analysis, modal dynamics, fatigue, shock and random vibration modeling and analysis