SwRI
Mr. Wieland has over 39 years of experience with aircraft structural design, analysis and testing.
He began his career as an officer in the United States Air Force designing repairs, performing finite element analysis and damage tolerance analysis.
After joining Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) he expanded his expertise into aircraft usage monitoring, component and full scale testing. He has been involved with the digital transformation of aerospace structures from the days of 2-D paper drawing and creating finite element models by typing each input card my hand up until todays modern CAD systems with very sophisticated pre and post processors built in.
He began his career as an officer in the United States Air Force designing repairs, performing finite element analysis and damage tolerance analysis.
After joining Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) he expanded his expertise into aircraft usage monitoring, component and full scale testing. He has been involved with the digital transformation of aerospace structures from the days of 2-D paper drawing and creating finite element models by typing each input card my hand up until todays modern CAD systems with very sophisticated pre and post processors built in.
