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“The quality of the papers just gets better and better!”
SimuTech
“Safe Technology do go out of your way to put on a first class UGM! Thanks for your efforts. See you in 2010”.
Eaton Automotive
Safe Technology held the 4th fe-safe™ International User Group Meeting on Tuesday 14th October, 2008, at Michigan State University, Management Education Center, MI, USA.
The event was a great success providing another technically advanced and highly valuable day for our community of users. We were delighted to welcome another prestigious keynote speaker, renowned fatigue specialist, Prof Gregory Glinka.
Professor Glinka has acted as a United Nations expert. His research interests include fracture of materials, fatigue of structures, multiaxial fatigue and creep of engineering materials, computer aided design, FEM-elastic-plastic stress-strain analysis and reliability. His recent research activities concern modeling of fatigue crack growth under random loading and fatigue optimization of welded structures. Professor Glinka has published over 120 related articles in technical journals and textbooks. He is currently a professor at the University of Waterloo.
“It's very pleasing to see so many of our customers and potential customers taking the time to come to our User Conference. We are delighted to provide this forum to give our users the opportunity to share experiences to help increase fatigue knowledge and understanding of fe-safe™, its capabilities and its applications.The meeting again saw lots of cross-industry discussion about the successful application of fe-safe™ to a wide range of components and designs.” said John Draper, CEO, Safe Technology Ltd.
Keynote Paper:
User Papers:
These papers were complemented by ‘Feature Focus’ sessions presented by Safe Technology engineers to highlight the corresponding methodology in fe-safe™ and Verity® in fe-safe™.
Safe Technology also presented papers on new features and future developments, approximating materials data for thermo-mechanical fatigue and how to integrate fatigue analysis into your design process.
The User Conference focused on presenting examples of real life fatigue problems and showing how fe-safe™ users and Safe Technology are working together to help face these challenges. The UGM was followed by two classes:
Practical fe-safe™ Training Class by Ian Mercer, Dr Radwan Hazime and Dr Pawel Sobczak
This two-day class provided hands-on tutorials and practical examples on how to set up and import models into fe-safe™, set up your loadings and run various analyses in fe-safe™. The class was aimed at current and soon-to-be fe-safe™ users.
Strain-based Fatigue Theory by Professor John Draper
This one day seminar focused on the two core aspects of modern fatigue analysis theories: strain-based fatigue and multiaxial fatigue. It was aimed at engineers wanting to gain a deeper understanding of strain based fatigue concepts and how they relate to real world engineering problems. A familiarity with the basic concepts of fatigue is assumed for this class.
The next fe-safe™ User Group Meeting will be in Spring 2010, we hope you can join us!
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