Anup Puri

Anup Puri was the company Chief Structural/Airworthiness Engineer with over 35 years of international experience in analysis and assessment of engineering structures/components in the fields of Aerospace, Marine, Land and Space based systems. He was a company signatory responsible for certifying the Structural and Airworthiness Integrity of all products. He received training through short courses in Electronic Warfare techniques, Guided Weapons Technology, Impact of Military Hardware on National economies and Effects of nuclear blasts atShrivenhamMilitaryCollege. He has also attended a short course on the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Offsets as a mechanism for promoting customer Industrial and Technological Development. He was an active working member of the MOD and NATO working groups and has produced chapters in both the Defence Standards documents on Structures, Materials, Mathematical Modelling and Airworthiness.

He has extensive structural design and analysis experience on a wide range of military, commercial and civil aviation products utilising numerical, computational and experimental methods in correlating and predicting response of structures to static, dynamic, thermal, impact, crashworthiness, nuclear blasts, fatigue, creep, acoustics etc. loads. He has worked with metallic, composites and smart structures materials.This work was carried out in close association with the Technical Directors, Chief Designers/Engineers, Project Managers in order to advise and recommend changes and also verify structural designsto meet the requirements of certificationfor all company products. He has been instrumental in steering and directing much of Finite Element Techniques research and development effort within the company and chaired SIGs within GEC, BAE Systems/ Avionics and then Leonardo Electronic Warfare Systems.

He was a Technical Corporate member of Company responsible to formulate Technical Policy for Structural Integrity and Certification of Sensors and Airborne Systems and ensure that the Company obtained and retained the appropriate MoD and Structural Integrity Design Approvals for it to be considered as Defence Design organisation.

He has been a NAFEMS Council member since 1999 and is a member of NAFEMS PSE Board and is an active PSE Assessor in a number of Competencies. Anup is also an active member of a number of NAFEMS Working Groups.

He is a skilled negotiator who has been instrumental in the past in the development of new business through the Education and Training routes both in theUKand overseas. He has chaired, presented and published work in the field of Airworthiness, Structural Failure, Product Liability and Technical Insurance at both National/International levels and has been a regular invited speaker at local schools, universities and International Associations. He has published numerous papers in International Journals and conference proceedings in North America, Europe andSouth/South East Asia. Anup has co-written a book on Material Models that is a NAFEMS publication (ISBN 1874376069 @ 2005 NAFEMS Ltd) and a book on Structural Analysis for Airworthiness for the Defence Industry. He is a reviewer of engineering courses at technology universities in theUK. In 2002, he was appointed to the Board of the International Society of Technology, Law and Insurance.

He is an active member of the NAFEMS Working Groups on Education & Training, Analysis Management and Multiphysic whose function is to create awareness and deliver appropriate benchmarks, education and training in computational techniques.

Service to Communityactively involved in promoting innovation and excellence among young people at schools and universities. Active external examiner and mentor to Postgraduates at Cranfield,Bath, & Liverpool universities inUK.