User Group Meeting 2010

Resounding success for the 5th International fe-safe™ User Group Meeting

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Safe Technology held the 5th fe-safe™ International User Group Meeting on Wednesday June 9th, 2010, at Michigan State University, Management Education Center, MI, USA. The meeting was followed on Thursday June 10th by a day of Technical Open Forums.

The event was a great success attracting the highest number of attendees yet. The attendees included current fe-safe™ users, soon-to-be fe-safe™ users and representatives from partner organizations, from as far afield as Japan and Argentina.

The standard of presentations and papers from partners and users was extremely high, providing another technically advanced and highly valuable day for all.

Presentations covered the application of fe-safe™, Verity® in fe-safe™ and fe-safe/TURBOlife™ across a broad range of industries, applications and research areas: from steel casting fatigue simulations to the fatigue of plastics; from the fatigue analysis of nitinol for use in arterial stents, to racing car components; from the fatigue of composite materials to weld fatigue analysis of automotive chassis systems; from the thermal fatigue analysis of an automotive exhaust system to the fatigue analysis of cyclic equipment in the petrochemical industry.

Our current R&D projects into the fatigue of plastics and nitinol were presented, along with the ground-breaking and exciting discoveries that we and our partners are making in these advanced fields of research.

We also announced the release of our latest module, fe-safe/Composites™. The fe-safe/Composites™ module is powered by Helius:Fatigue, a technology that has been licensed exclusively from composites experts, Firehole Technologies. Firehole presented this unique new product and the technology behind it.

We were honoured to welcome another prestigious keynote speaker; renowned fatigue specialist, Professor Norman Dowling. Prof Dowling has published numerous papers and reports and his well respected book, “Mechanical Behavior of Materials”, has been widely adopted as an engineering textbook, used extensively by academics and practicing engineers alike. His keynote presentation was his recent work on “Mean Stress Effects In Stress-Life And Strain-Life Fatigue”. His presentation was particularly well-received by fe-safe™ users.

The Technical Forum Day on Thursday 10th provided a more informal environment for sharing information and stimulating discussion on key areas of fatigue and durability facing engineers today: Weld Fatigue, High Temperature Fatigue, Vibration Fatigue and the Fatigue of Composite Materials. Each session was chaired by a Safe Technology engineer or partner and was attended by key Safe Technology representatives, fe-safe™ users and partners. The day was educational and informative for both attendees and the Safe Technology team!

The Safe Technology team would like to thank all the attendees and contributors for attending and for making this year’s event so fantastic. See you all next year!

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Attendee feedback:
“Excellent Range and quality of presentations”
“A really good event”
“Very informative”
“Very good diversity of industries, great presentations”
“I was impressed by your technical staff and the overall quality of your organization”
“I found the presentations in the areas other than my specific focus interesting and expanded my fatigue exposure”
“I was surprised that so many users were involved”
“Excellent Presentations, well organized”
“Very good format”
“Very interesting. I like the diversity of topics”

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