Hans Jensen
Senior Research Engineer
Education
B.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 1997
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
Experience
Mr. Jensen joined MR&D in February of 1999. Since joining MR&D, Mr. Jensen has participated on MR&D contracts for aviation and aerospace prime contractors, including The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, and for U.S. Government aerospace agencies, including the U.S. Air Force, the Naval Air Warfare Center, NASA Langley Research Center and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Mr. Jensen has recently worked with United Technologies Research Center in the analysis of helicopter armor systems assisting in material trade studies and analytical evaluation. He coordinated and managed MR&D working base heat shield design studies for the Northrop Grumman Deployable Skirt System contract with NASA under the ESR&T program. His work with MR&D has included analyses of 3-D woven reinforced ceramic matrix composite designs for use in Reusable Launch Vehicle engine turbine blades.
Mr. Jensen has been very involved with the examination of stresses and displacements for various components under random base excitation representations of lift-off and acoustic loadings. He has created complex parametric models of numerous avionics printed wiring board assemblies under random vibration. Comprehensive research and analysis has been conducted by Mr. Jensen on the performance of 3-D and 2-D composite “T” joints using in-house micromechanical tools and public domain finite element analysis codes. Mr. Jensen created rigorously detailed finite element models of joints incorporating the complex internal architecture of the textile preform reinforced composite material. He has made significant strides on the analysis of CMC nozzle ramps for the linear aerospike engine of a NASA Future-X reusable launch vehicle.
Mr. Jensen performed a significant amount of work on advanced C/SiC designs for the hot structure control surfaces of the X-37 OSV. Concurrently with this work, he also analyzed the carbon–carbon grid for an ion propulsion system in a random vibration spacecraft lift-off environment. Mr. Jensen has also conducted comprehensive studies of 3-D woven and tri-axial braided composite designs for applications in dental prosthetics.
Prior to joining MR&D, Mr. Jensen was a project engineer for Berg Steel Pipe Corporation in Panama City, Florida. There he conducted a finite difference heat transfer analysis on a model of a steel plate under a high heat source for the recommendation of capital equipment. Projects there included the installation of a full-body ultrasonic tester in the production flow and a comprehensive study of weld defects.