Anthony Bombik
Stanford University
Seminar Information
In Person: Engineering Building Unit 2 - Room 584
The Aerospace Structural Mechanics course discusses the various structural components within airplane and space vehicles that must carry the operational loads. Each of the frames, stringers, and web sections work together to break down distributed lift, thrust, and weight forces into smaller, more manageable, bending, shear, and torsional loads. One critical design of the aircraft structure is the wing box beam, which uses multiple closed thin-walled sections to distribute aerodynamic lift forces over the wing. This short lecture briefly reviews the mathematics behind closed thin-walled sections before working through a practical example of an aircraft wing.
With a strong background in structural mechanics and recent exposure to Li-ion technology, Anthony Bombik is heading Stanford's Structures And Composites Lab research effort to integrate Li-ion pouch cells into structural components of EVs to optimize pack efficiency. Anthony's PhD research focus is in Li-ion battery manufacturing and modeling: mechanical, thermal, and SoC, SoH estimation techniques. Previously, he has worked as a flight control engineer intern at Boeing, a vibrations and loads engineer intern on the Space Launch System at Boeing, and an adjunct lecturer at Santa Clara University. Anthony has served as a teaching assistant for Aircraft Structures, Multifunctional Composite Design and Electrochemical Energy Storage Modeling and Estimation. In 2017, he received the Aero Astro Department Outstanding TA of the year award.