Mr. Frank has expertise in developing vehicle structures, occupant restraint systems, and other vehicle subsystems for crash performance in front, side, and rear impacts. His experience includes setting vehicle and subsystem crash performance targets and conducting Finite Element Analysis and testing to assess the performance relative to regulatory compliance and OEM requirements. Mr. Frank is trained in the procedures to download and analyze the data contained in vehicles’ Event Data Recorders. He is familiar with the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) and the test protocols used to evaluate compliance with those standards.
Prior to joining Exponent, Mr. Frank was employed by Ford Motor Company for over 9 years in the area of Vehicle Crash Safety Engineering. Most recently in this position he was responsible for the planning, testing, analysis, issue resolution, and documentation of compliance to crash related Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and Ford internal safety requirements for a full-size car platform. In this assignment, Mr. Frank also assisted in determining the appropriate airbag sensor threshold levels and developing unique test procedures to evaluate the crash performance for specialty variants of the platform. Previously, Mr. Frank was responsible for the CAE analysis and development of the front structure for this vehicle platform.