Kasi Chelladurai

Experience

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  HAL ARDC

  Jul 1988 - Aug 2014

  Airworthiness clearances & certification of (i) military fighter aircraft (ii) military intermediate trainer aircraft includes: (a) Vetting of design documents, (b) preparation of Certificate of Design documents for the aircraft systems, (c) preparation of flight clearance certificates, (d) Clearances for the flight trials, (e) flight data studies using Matlab and MS excelRepresented the Indian Pavilion in ADEX 2011 – Defense Airshow and Exhibition, 18-23 October 2011 for six days at Seoul, South Korea.Undergone (i) The Leadership Excellence on 10-14 February 2014 at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (ii) The Business Excellence Education on 26-30 May 2014 at Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad (iii) The Operational Excellence Programme on 23-27 June 2014 at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Show less Military Airworthiness clearances & Certification of Airframe structures includes: (a) vetting of structural design, analysis and testing documents, (b) structural ground and flight testing, (c) structural incident investigations, (d) preparation of certificate of design for structural componentsCivil Airworthiness clearances include (a) Design Organisation Approval/Renewal of ARDC as JB organisation, (b) Design Organisation Manual (DOM) preparation/approval/maintenance, (c) Involved in Surveillance / Regulatory audits by DGCA, (d) Vetting of Design Documents. Show less (i) Strength testing and certification of the Main Airframe Structural test (MAST) specimen of a fighter aircraft for seven critical load cases as per MIL spec requirements(ii) Military Airworthiness clearances & certification of the Airframe Structure of a trainer aircraft which includes (a) Certificate of Design (COD) documents preparation/amendments for various systems, (b) Flight Clearance Certificate (FCC) preparation/amendments for the flight trials, (c) Day-to-day Flight trial Clearances, (d) Documentation for Operational Clearance Show less (i) Structural analysis, Strength testing and certification of CFC wing and other critical test boxes & specimen of a fighter aircraft, (ii) Strain data study for the fighter aircraft flight trials using matlab programming(ii) Received the Swarna Jayanti Award for the year 2001 in recognition of Design and Testing of LCA CFC Wing Strength Test Specimen from the Aeronautical Society of India. This is an annual award for the young achievers in Aeronautics, Aerospace and Aviation (iii) Papers Published (a) “Development Testing of Wing to Fuselage Attachment Joint” by S.A.HAKEEM, K.CHELLADURAI, A.K.SOOD at Advances in Composites, proceeding of the Third International Conference, 24-26 August 2000, Bangalore, India(b) “Structural Integrity Assessment of Composite Pressure test box through Full Scale Test” by B.K.PARIDA, P.K.DASH, S.A.HAKEEM, K.CHELLADURAI at ASTM symposium on Composite Materials: Testing, Design, and Acceptance Criteria, March 26-27, 2001, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. [Published in ASTM Special Technical Proceeding-1416] Show less

  • Chief Manager (Design)

    Jul 2010 - Aug 2014

  • Senior Manager (Design)

    Jul 2006 - Jun 2010

  • Manager (Design)

    Jan 2002 - Jun 2006

  • Deputy Manager (Design)

    Jan 1998 - Dec 2001

  • Engineer (Aeronautical)

    Oct 1992 - Dec 1997

  • Asst Engineer (Aeronautical)

    Jul 1988 - Sept 1992
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  HAL TARDC

  Sept 2014 - Apr 2018

  Chief Manager (Design)

  Civil Certification of 19 seater Transport Aircraft with DGCA India(i) Approval/Renewal of TARDC as Design Organisation with DGCA(ii) Amendment of Design Organisation Manual (DOM) of TARDC(iii) Study and submission of Modleaflets for DGCA approval (around 113 submitted so far related Structure, Mechanical System and Electrical & Avionics)(iv) Organising the Surveillance and Regulatory Audits(v) Design support for the Production Organisation TAD HAL Kanpur

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  HAL LCA Tejas

  May 2018 - now

  (i) Handling Design clearances for Aircraft Production(ii) Handling Aircraft Manuals and Publications Handling Design clearances for aircraft production:(i) Production Queries clearance(ii) Aircraft / Assy / Part level Snag clearances(iii) Production Concessions / Permits clearance

  • Dy General Manager (DLE / Publication)

    Jul 2020 - now

  • Chief Manager (DLE)

    May 2018 - Jun 2020