The presentation will focus on buckling and postbuckling or airplane structures (both wing and fuselage) and discuss impact of buckling design criteria on weight (qualitatively). We will also illustrate typical buckling checks performed for sizing using both hand-calcs and detailed Finite Element Models (FEM).
Olaf Weckner
Boeing Technical Fellow
MIT Postdoctorate Fellow from MIT
Prior positions at Boeing include:
- 2019 Boeing Associate Technical Fellow
- BCA, Senior Lead at SMA, since 2017
- BCA, 777-9X Upper Panel Lead, 2013 – 2017
- BR&T, Research Engineer, 2005 – 2013
PhD, Technical University of Berlin 2004
Jay Smith
- BCA, 777X Wing Panel Lead, since 2017
- BCA, 787 Wing Panel , 2006 – 2013
- Montana State University, MS Mechanical Engineering 2000 – 2006
David Leibov
- Boeing Commercial Airplanes – Associate Technical Fellow (since 2021)
- Boeing Commercial Airplanes – Senior Structures Analysis Engineer (since 2019)
- Boeing Commercial Airplanes – Structures Analysis Engineer (2004 – 2019)
- Mecaer America – Structures Analysis Engineer (2003 – 2004)
- Bombardier Aerospace – Structures Analysis Engineer (1998 – 2003)
- McGill University, Montreal, Canada – Master of Engineering (1998)