Tamas Liszkai

I am Tamas Liszkai, engineering supervisor at NuScale Power leading a group of engineers responsible for designing the reactor module.

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Tamas Liszkai provides supervision to a group of engineers. Tamas Liszkai is responsible for planning work assignments, scheduling work, supervising work flow, and adhering to budget and schedule. He functions as a specialist developing and applying advanced engineering concepts to specific problems in the area of new reactor design and analysis. His primary interest is related to the research and development of advanced techniques for solving mechanical engineering problems in the nuclear industry. Tamas Liszkai sets the vision and direction for future changes and mentors others to grow their area of expertise to accomplish the changes that will lead future technological advancements.

Supervisory Engineer at AREVA NP

2007 - 2012

Direct, develop and evaluate resources with multicultural background tied to objective project measures (quality, schedule, and budget) and milestones. Maintain open dialogue and feedback with management, peers and subordinates to facilitate sharing common goals. Coordinate mechanical/fluid expert domain initiatives across US and European regions in new and operating reactor design. Coordinate meetings and presentation topics from a group of experts. Develop department technical guidelines in component design related to finite element technology and ASME Code evaluations. Improve methodologies by adapting state-of-the-art practices. Act as customer interface for on-going projects. Provide ASME certified design reports along with supporting calculations to customers. Present key project results at professional / customer meetings. Liaise with external institutions such as Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) or Pressurized Water Reactors Owner’s Group (PWROG) to develop innovative technologies in nuclear reactor analysis (e.g. EPRI IRRADSS customized user material routine for ANSYS). R&D lead in reactor internals methodologies for fluid-structure coupling considering aging effects. Development of employee mentoring programs and cross-training opportunities between the design and engineering organizations

Engineer I-IV at AREVA NP

June 2003 - July 2007

• Qualification of nuclear power plant NSSS components, component supports and heavy lifting devices, ASME Section III and AISC design codes. • Finite element analysis (ANSYS) of nuclear pressure vessels and supports (transient thermal and stress analyses, fatigue, non-linear buckling of shells, ductility demand, plasticity and contact analyses). Dynamic time history, seismic spectra and operating load analyses and qualification of piping and structural systems. Comprehensive simulation of reactor vessel internals considering radiation environment (void swelling, irradiation assisted stress corrosion cracking, embrittlement). • Service support structure, steam generator replacement and pressurizer nozzles, cooling water piping system, fixed lifting pendants and internals handling adapter design and qualification for operating and seismic conditions, reactor vessel head drop analysis, mechanical collateral damage assessment of bottom mounted nozzles and piping, Alloy 600 repairs –weld overlay/inlay/onlay, rector vessel internals. • Structural lead of reactor internals materials age degradation analysis. Responsible for several R&D projects and introduced innovative technologies in day-to-day work. Provide proposal input, scheduling and man-hour estimates to support the Structural and Fracture Mechanics Unit.

Research and Teaching Assistant at Texas A&M University

2000 - 2003

• Non-destructive structural damage detection using frequency response functions, genetic algorithm, optimization, finite element analysis and structural dynamics • Teaching assistant for CVEN 345 Theory of Structures

Visiting Researcher, Fulbright Scholarship at Texas A&M University

1999 - 2000

• Non-linear finite element analysis (ANSYS) of wheel passages on rails to prevent railhead fatigue.

Teaching Assistant, Research Group Leader at University of Miskolc

1997 - 1999

• Teaching assistant: Design of Structural Connections, Analysis of Structures, Optimization of Structures, Computer Science for Engineers. • Optimum Design of Various Steel Structures supported by the Hungarian government through the “Hungarian Funds for Scientific Research” program.

Solid Mechanics Supervisor at NuScale Power

March 2012

Texas A&M University

2000 – 2003

Ph.D.

University of Miskolc

1997 – 1999

Ph.D.

Concentration: Mechanical Engineering

University of Miskolc

1992 – 1997

Master of science

Concentration: Mechanical Engineering