RocÃo has over 20 years of experience working in the fields of non-metallic and metallic materials testing in the aerospace, defence, and renewable sectors.
Experience
RocÃo has held a variety of management and technical leadership positions while keeping a marked practical approach. She has focused on the more complex aspects of mechanical testing on non-metallic materials and helped clients develop testing programs to determine the suitability of their products.
As Technical Director of the Materials Testing Department at Element Sevilla, she has led the laboratory through the most demanding technical and quality qualifications (Nadcap NMMT, MMT, ISO 17025, and ISO 9100), as well as customer-specific accreditations (AIRBUS, EMBRAER, and BOEING among others).
Additionally, RocÃo has contributed to developing and launching a robust internal LIMS system to manage the laboratory's production (testing and reporting).
Career Highlights
Contribution to the definition, development, and execution of First Part Qualification Tests (FPQ) for Aerospace programs
Investigation on Damage tolerance: Tensile/Compression After Impact CAI & Compression after Impact Edge (CIE) tests
Composite Bearing Supported and unsupported tests
Development of Equivalency Test Plans (Level 0) for new production plants/programs
Study of Shimming effect under static and fatigue loading on bolted joints and special configurations
Study of Bolt Shear and Tension interaction on composite bolted joints
Tests on Repaired Panels under Shear loads
Qualification Test Plan
Shielded overbraiding of electrical harnesses.
Verification and control of crimping tools
Incoming Inspection and Control Process Tests on non-metallic materials
Specialisms
Advanced Materials: Composites, plastics, polymers, and adhesives
Mechanical and Physical Characterization of metallic and non-metallic materials
Fracture Mechanics
Fatigue and Fatigue Crack Growth
Damage tolerance tests
Professional Qualifications
Degree in Industrial Technologies Engineering with a specialization of Mechanical Engineering (University of Seville)
Masters in Aeronautical Industry Technologies and Management.
During more than ten years she has been working as a Professor at the Higher Technical School of Engineering (University of Seville) in the Department of Mechanics of Continuous Media and Theory of Structures. Over this period, she was an active member of the Investigation group TEP131 (Elasticity and Strength of Materials)
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