Jim Kennedy


	Engineering Mechanics Corporation of Columbus

Dr. Jim Kennedy.
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E-mail: jkennedy@emc-sq.com
614-459-3200 ext 226

Education

B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Purdue University (1959)
M.Sc., Engineering Mechanics, The Ohio State University (1962)
Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, The Ohio State University (1967)

Technical Qualifications

Prior to joining Emc2 in August 2009, Dr. Kennedy was Director of the FHWA Center of Excellence in Finite Element Crash Analysis at Battelle. In this role, Dr. Kennedy was unique in the United States and on this team in leading structural performance of metallic and composite material systems and corresponding modeling and simulation development to support predictive schemes. Dr. Kennedy led activities in 3D finite element analysis of pavement systems, involving a variety of material and damage models for the pavement including material elasticity, visco-elasticity, plasticity and stress dependency effects under complex static and dynamic (highway vehicular and aircraft) loading conditions. Dr. Kennedy has performed field-testing to determine response of pavement to vehicular traffic and employed test results for comparison with predicted results. Dr. Kennedy has performed extensive field- testing and computer modeling to investigate the behavior and performance of roadside safety features under impact of high-speed vehicular impact.

Professional Recognition and Affiliations

Recipient of Distinguished Award of Excellence, Special Programs Office, Eglin Air Force Base (1983)

R&D 100 Award for 2005, Reusable Abutment Cushion Extension (RACE) Safety Barrier

Transportation Research Board (TRB)-AFB 20-Committee on Roadside Design

TRB-AFB 70- Committee on Utilities Safety

American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials/Associated General Contractors of America/American Road & Transportation Builders Association

Member of Task Force 13-Subcommittee on New Highway Materials

Technical Advisory Board for the Navy Joining Center (Center of Excellence in Joining Technology, Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research)

Prior Professional Experience

Battelle, Associate Manager, Equipment Development and Mechanical Systems (1998 to June 2009). Dr. Kennedy managed and provided technical management of staff in marketing and project work for Equipment Development and Mechanical Systems (EDMS). He brought the technical skills and resources of EDMS into a variety of market sectors within Battelle for application to a broad range of Government and industrial client needs. He was the Director of Center of Excellence in Roadside Safety sponsored by USDOT. He brought needed technical resources of COE (analysis, design and full scale impact testing) to solution of Roadside Safety problems for State DOTs and manufacturers and vendors of roadside safety hardware. He was involved in Design and Qualification of new steel guardrail post for highway safety application; design and test of new safety barrier for race track and highway applications; and Fee-For-Service, Lease, and/or Sale of Software (Virtual Fabrication Technology-VFT) to solution of fabrication/manufacture of large material structural systems.

Battelle, Associate Manager, Advanced Manufacturing Group (1990 - 1998). Conducted failure and stress analyses of standard and non-standard structural systems, along with corresponding experimental activities, under a variety of loading environments. Tested and analyzed high-speed impact of vehicles into roadside safety features.

Resource International, Inc., Manager, Division of Research and Applied Technology and Acting Director of Research (1988 - 1990). Dr. Kennedy managed marketing and technical work of five departments. He conducted research involving fundamental mechanics, including linear and nonlinear fracture mechanics, constitutive modeling, development of damage and failure theories, analysis and design of pavement systems, the permanent deformation aspects of runways, and high strain rate effects in carbon-carbon material systems.

Battelle, Manager, Computational Mechanics (1987 - 1988). He was responsible for marketing, research, and analysis of a broad range of problems in applied and fundamental mechanics. The range of problem areas typically encountered included; linear and nonlinear fracture mechanics, constitutive modeling, development of damage and failure theories, analysis and design of piping systems for the petrochemical and nuclear industries, and specialized software for structural systems analysis.

Battelle, Principal Research Scientist, Ordnance Systems and Technology Section (1980 - 1987). He was responsible for development and qualification of elements for enhancement of fielded systems primarily for the Air Force. Examples included; design, test, and qualification of gun gas diverter for GAU-8 cannon on A-10 aircraft and the design, test, and qualification of an alternative thin-wall steel 30-mm cartridge case for the standard aluminum counterpart.

Battelle, Researcher, Dynamics Group (1975 - 1980). He conducted analysis of various structural systems to determine baseline dynamic performance relative to design expectations. Systems analyzed involved rail track structures, travel vehicles over off-road terrain, and vehicle shock absorbers.

The Ohio State University, Assistant Professor (1967 - 1975). He taught undergraduate courses in statics, strength of materials, dynamics, graphics, numerical methods, and computer programming with applications in engineering. He taught graduate-level courses in advanced dynamics, vibrations, analytical dynamics, and inertial navigation. Research included evaluation of the capability of industrial computer programs to satisfy building design code requirements.

Rockwell International, Research Engineer (1959 - 1967). He developed dynamic loads analysis models of wing and canard components for augmented thrust-type aircraft. Developed computer programs for specifying pressure distributions over augmented thrust-type lifting components. Simulation of aircraft platform response to a variety of mechanical and environmental loading conditions.