1. THANH NGUYEN
210 Archerfield Rd
Richlands, Queensland 4077, Australia
Home: +61 7 33757205
Cell: +61 430575637
Email: congthanh01@yahoo.com
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Objective: CURICULUM VITAE
Summary of Qualifications
 Well knowledge in design, calculation and modelling of fabric membrane structures.
 Expert analytical engineer with strong skill and well experience in steel structural
computational modelling for analysis at Hatch consultant Engineering .
 Extensive technical knowledge and experience in mechanical design calculations at Hatch's
Structure Asset group for many types of heavy machines over the world using different
required standard codes .
 Proficient uses of FEA packages such as MSc.FEA, MSc.AFEA, Nastran, FEMAP,
SPACEGAS and ANSYS for complicated analysis at Hatch consultant Engineering.
 Competent uses and programming of packages Microsoft office, Matlab, Mathcad, Teds for
documentation, calculations and numerical analysis in working at Hatch.
 Normal design using packages of Autocad, Solidworks, Onshape and Revit for object designs
and architecture.
 Outstanding knowledge of mathematics, physics and electricity; and well experience in
applications of these area in working at Hatch consultant engineering.
 Extensive experience and good knowledge in nanostructure research of
biomaterials/biomechanics mechanism of different materials such as soil, clay, polymer, fibre,
fluid and osmotic components; or a complicated structure of their composite in PhD research
at QUT.
 Well written and verbal communication skills to present projects in team and community
although there difficulty in language accent.
Significant Achievements
 Involved in more than 40 successful projects completed over the world with the feedback of
clients' good services in Structural Asset team at Hatch Consultant Engineering.
 Successful presented an accepted project "National solar energy and your dream house" for a
university in Vietnam, 2016 (volunteer work). The project is in first step trial in the progress to
produce cheap solar energy and quality houses for low income people in Vietnam.
 Best student presentation research paper at a international applied mathematics conference
at QUT in 2003.

2. Experience
Volunteer work (Leading Unlimited Engineers For Life Group in Viet Nam) 2016-recent.
 Consultant in design, calculation and modelling of fabric membrane structure for a company.
 Drafting an innovation project on solar energy named "National solar energy and your dream
house", Which can produce up to 80 BW and 10 thousands cheap houses per year for a
university in Viet Nam.
 Design and built up a 3-level house with plating wall in the garden at Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam.
Senior Specialist Analyst (Structural/Mechanical engineer) 07/2006 - 01/2016, Hatch Consultant
Engineering, Brisbane, Australia:
Most projects have related to heavy bulk handling machines in mining area such as 400tph dryer,
drum scrubber, conveyors, trippers, elevators, stacker, bucketwheel reclaimers, bridge and portal
reclaimers, bucketwheel bridge reclaimers, tipplers, duct pipes, tanks, agitator tanks, ship loader, ship
unloader, and chemical reactors and etc. The undertaken works include positions as the following:
 Working as a steel structural engineer to review and audit the design structures of machines/
components such as reviewing design drawings; checking welds, pins, bolts and fatigue
service life of machines/ components; checking the installations, checking stability of the
machines.
 Working independent calculations as a mechanical engineer to review and audit the
mechanical design calculations of machines and any factors relating to the machines such as
operational mechanism; mechanical calculations of mechanical powers for installations; gear
box; mechanical loads (operational, abnormal, wind, skew, earthquake loads and others) on
the machines complying to required standard codes; loads on wheel for wheel checking;
loads on components for transportation and etc.; calculate the thermal effects on the
components; and calculate dynamic loads for the fatigue life services.
 Working as a FEA engineer to computational model the components/machines for structural
analysis to review and check the stress, deflection, buckling, fatigue and vibration of the new
design/ existing machines. Hence, to design or modify the components to fix the structural
issues.
 As expert analyst, investigate the faulty components or existing machine issues based on
surveyed and measured data using high knowledge of physics, maths and mechanics; then
virtualized the problems using FEA for analysis. Hence, design or modify the faulty
components.
 Programming calculation codes using MATHCAD to determine the Fit for purpose of pressure
vessels and tanks complying with API579 standard. It works out duration of a cracking
vessel/tank.

3.  Being trained for Quality Assurance job in 2015.
Research assistance 2004-2007 at QUT, Brisbane, Australia.
 Design pre-model nanostructure Zeolite-titanium composite for proposal artificial bone in ARC
grant application.
 Develop the growth crack theory of articular cartilage and model its crack growth.
 Develop general consolidation theory for complex tissue material as articular cartilage based
on its nano-structure of the composite and its nano-fluidic mechanics, here by review a
specific hyperelasticity theory for the cartilage property;
 Analyzing the trypsin diffusion to deleted proteoglycans using Image processing and data
statistical model to clarify the hetergeneous properties of components.
 Computationally modeled and analyzed the flow of air on the CD surface using Fluent and
Gamebit for FEA in CD cleaning project
 Mathematically model to predict heat transfer inside an object in microwave and the proposal
plan for a new research.
PhD research 1998 - 2004 in Mechanical/Medical Engineering at QUT, Brisbane, Australia.
 Review properties of materials as polymer, rubber, soil, clay and soft tissue.
 Mathematically modelling the complicated heterogeneous, anisotropic structucture od articular
cartilage based on microscope images and data analysis.
 Numerically solving model using element finite analysis with matlab codes to obtain
mechanism of the cartilage under load.
 Design experiment and the purpose equipments to test the theoretical parameters.
Education
 Ph.D in Mechanical/Medical Engineering, 2004 at Queensland University of Technology, GP,
Brisbane, Australia.
 Honours Degree in Applied Mathematics, 1998 at The University of Queensland, St Lucia,
Brisbane, Australia.
 Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics, 1997 at The University of Queensland, St
Lucia, Brisbane, Australia.
 Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Studied from1985-1988 at The Technology University of
Saigon, Vietnam. Not completed as escape from Vietnam.
Affiliations
 2010 - Present, Australia Asset management council member.

4. Interests
 Attending engineering annual conferences for on-going training, workshops, and certifications.
 Volunteer teaching and transferring knowledge to students in poor countries.
 Research new green and cheap material with high quality as entertainment.
 Design new structural components for real living problems.
Professional Development
 Course in General Safety Induction (Blue card for Construction Industry), 2006
 MSC.FEA Training course, 2006
 Welding Technology Appreciation for Engineering Personnel, 2008
 Finite Element Analysis Theory Training Course, 2008
 Structural Steel Fabrication and Welding for Engineers, 2010
Publications
1. [Journal paper] Brown CP, Nguyen TC, Moody HR, Crawford RW, Oloyede A, 2009.
Assessment of common hyperelastic constitutive equations for describing normal and
osteoarthritic articular cartilage.ProcInstMechEng H. 2009 Aug;223(6):643-52.
2. [Journal paper] Nguyen, T. and Oloyede, A., 2001. Predictive rheological models for the
consolidation behaviour of articular cartilage under static loading.ProcInstn Mechanical
Engineering, vol. 215 Part H, pp 565-577.
3. [Conference paper] Nguyen, T and Loganathan, S. 2010, Investigation of
thermomechanicaleffect on industrial dryer using MSC.Marc finite element analysis.
Proceeding at the Sixth International Conference on Information Technology for Education
and Research, August 2010, Vietnam.
4. [Poster] Nguyen, T. and Oloyede A., 1998. One-dimensional porohyperelastic model of
articular cartilage, 1998. The 4th Pan Pacific Conference, Tissue Societies of Symposium.
5. [Poster & conference paper] Nguyen, T. and Oloyede A., 2000. Finite element analysis of
articular cartilage using Rheological models with addition of physio-chemical effect,
10thInternational Conference Biomedical Engineering.
6. [Conference paper] Nguyen, T. and Oloyede A., 2001. Phenomenological model of articular
cartilage structure and consolidation. BIOROM (Bioeng. Con.)
7. [Conference paper] Nguyen, T. and Oloyede, A., 2002. Continuum modelling of the large
strain behaviour of the constrained articular cartilage. Proceedings of 5th Biennial
Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference, pp 151-156.

5. 8. [Conference poster] Nguyen T., Oloyede A. and Turner I., (7/2005) Prediction of the
biomechanical properties of normal and lacerated cartilage using rheological analogue of
layer. First international conference of bioengineering in HochiMinh city, Vietnam.
Referees
1. Pr. KunleOloyede, Medical Engineering, School Engineering Systems, BEE, QUT, Brisbane.
Phone No. (07)31382158. Email: k.oloyede@qut.edu.au (Research work). He has moved to
Nigeria.
2. Dr. Logan Loganathan, principal of Structural Asset Group, Hatch Associate, Brisbane. Phone No.
0409648854. Email: loga101072@gmail.com (industrial work)