PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dr. Dydo has extensive experience in analyzing, designing and developing systems for a range of industrial applications in the following industries: oil, petrochemical, automotive and shipbuilding. He is Founder and CTO / Principal Engineer of Gatekey® Engineering, Inc. an engineering services company. Formerly, he was a Principal at Advanced Computational and Engineering Services, LLC where he led various finite element and engineering analysis programs. At the Edison Welding Institute, Dr. Dydo led technology development in computational simulations of advanced welding processes and developed methods to reduce distortion. Dr. Dydo has extensive experience in design and failure investigations. At Chevron Corporation he was in charge of design and installation of processing equipment for petrochemical and refining plants. Dr. Dydo is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the States of Ohio and California.
EXPERTISE
Dr. Dydo has wide-ranging experience in advanced finite element analysis and design of structural components. His areas of technical expertise are as follows:
Structural engineering analysis
Design of engineering structures
Fitness for service analysis
Analysis of structural distortion and
Development of constitutive material models
Dr. Dydo has utilized his expertise to develop and apply advanced engineering technologies in which computational simulations were employed to provide practical and cost effective solutions. He has solved a range of critical manufacturing and process problems in the Shipbuilding and Heavy Equipment, Automotive and Medical industries, utilizing a variety of modeling techniques. Additionally, Dr. Dydo has developed technology that has been applied to introduction of new products with wider commercial applications. He designed an innovative method for reducing welding distortion. He has redesigned a range of components in order to achieve improved operation and extended operational capability, through analyses of critical structural components and manufacturing processes. He has provided professional consulting services to several hundred industrial firms and organizations.
Dr. Dydo has worked extensively with worldwide academic and industrial research and development institutions, in order to develop technology and identify unique applications for new technological developments.
40 publications, 10 speaking invitations, 4 patents
