| Naresh Chiwhane has over 17 years of experience in RC and Steel design of industrial, commercial and residential projects using Brititsh, US, Australian and Indian design codes |
| Light-Gage / Cold-Formed Steel Product Development: Development of building products for the Curtain-wall systems, Load-bearing wall systems, Bracing conditions, Roof-Truss systems, Joist-Floor systems including prototype product testing, improve connection capacitites, generating design load tables, develope new design procedures which are beyond the scope of the existing design specifications |
| Instumental in the development of: i) SpraZ Purlin System ii) SupraFrame Wall System iiii) SupraTruss System iv) Fermlok Beam v) Joist-Floor System |
| Inventor: Invented (US Patent) a building product for steel Joist-Floor System |
| Software Developer: (On-Line Design Software Programs) ( Steel design softwares are developed using C++, MFC, Java2.0, GIU-JSwing,and Servlet and JSP) i) Stud sectional and effective section properties ii) Stud design for combine axial and bending iiii) C-Section Shear capacity, Web crippling capacity iv) Screw connection capacities v) Safety Factor determinations for special cases vi) 2-D Plane Frame Analysis vii) Interactive Truss design |
| EDUCATIONS: Graduate Certificate, Steel Structural Stability, 1996, Sydney University, Australia. Specialization: Advance analysis and design of Light-Gage Steel MS in Structural Engineering, 1987, IIT, Bombay, India Thesis: Interactive Computer Aided Design of Steel Frames BS in Civil Engineering, 1986, College of Engineering Poona, Pune University, India Senior Project: Pre-stressed Concrete Structural Desing |
| AFFILIATIONS: Member American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE) Member of Strucural Engineerng Institute(SEI) Member American Institute of Steel Construction(AISC) |