Mr. Nicholas Civitanova is a Mechanical Engineer and a Staff Consultant for Engineering Systems Inc (ESi) in the Aurora, Illinois office. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Mr. Civitanova specializes in accident investigation and reconstruction of recreational, passenger, and commercial vehicles with expertise in impact analysis, vehicle dynamics instrumentation, data acquisition and analysis, and three-dimensional laser scanning.
Mr. Civitanova has experience with biomechanical instrumentation, incorporating the use of motion capture technologies to measure and visualize biological motion.
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Publications
- Sensitivity Analysis of Virtual Crash Simulation Software Using Design of Experiments (DOE), SAE International, SAE Technical Paper. 2025-01-8693, doi:10.4271/2025-01-8693, January 2025
- Inclusion of Tire Forces into Low-Speed Bumper-to-Bumper Crash Reconstruction Simulation Models, SAE International, SAE Technical Paper. 2024-01-2479, doi:10.4271/2024-01-2479, January 2024