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UNCONFIRMED
MINUTES OF A MEETINGS OF


 




SAE Fatigue Design and Evaluation Committee




Road
Load Data Division





Detroit,
Mi (3-4
April 2001)




 





Tuesday, April 3 - Divisional Progress Meeting

    
  
  1. Christoph Leser moderated the meeting.
  
  2. Minutes from the previous meeting were approved.
  
  3. Mark early reported that all data acquisition and preliminary
    checking/transformation activities are complete. 
  
  4. No progress on data reduction activities was reported.
    5. 
  
  5. ASCII data for web page – No progress was reported on the common format
    for data presentation in ASCII format.
    6. 
  
  6. Christoph Leser reported on the activities of the SAE Fatigue Committee in
    Japan. The group there will embark shortly on a road load data acquisition
    activities for a "generic" vehicle. They expect to collect spindle
    loads with a wheel force transducer and use this as a "standard load
    sequence" for further fatigue studies of vehicles of comparable size.
    They will keep this committee informed of their progress and are requesting
    support from this committee in the form of advise on approach and
    methodology.
    7. 
  
  7. Jodi Sommerfeld of MTS Systems Corporation gave a presentation entitled:
    "Effects of Varying End Constraints Observed in Finite Element Analysis
    and Empirical Analysis of a Transducer"
  
  8. Christoph Leser of MTS Systems Corporation gave a presentation entitled:
    "Update on Empirical Dynamics Modeling Activities of the ATV Shock
    Absorber"





Wednesday, April 4 - Divisional Planning Meeting


Paul Lubinski chaired the meeting (substituting for Christoph Leser)


Prior to the RLDA planning session a group discussion for the ATV related
activities was held. The ATV group will refocus its activities under the
leadership of Ric Mousseau. The RLDA group will continue to support the ATV
activities.



Data Reduction - No further discussion was held. The RLDA chairperson
will stay in touch with the ATV chairperson to see what the ongoing needs of
this group are w.r.t. this issue.



ASCII data format - No further input was given, it was agreed to close
this activity.


New activities - no proposals for new activities were made.


Goals/objectives - SAE is requesting input from all the chairpersons
of the SAE FD&E committee defining the goals and objectives of the
respective sub committees. This will aid SAE in deciding whether the SAE
FD&E committee should stay as a "standards generating committee"
or become an "event" type committee (where event relates to
seminar/training or similar type of event). No input was given by the group on
goals and objectives. 


The meeting was adjourned.


Minutes submitted by Christoph Leser