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Minutes and Presentations of the Spring 2004 Meeting, April 12-14, 2004 hosted by International in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Full Minutes (official minutes as confirmed by the committee)

Agenda here

Presentations (for which we obtained permission to publish):

• Key Factors Contributing to Durability Performance of Welded Components, Cindy Jiang
• Relative Fatigue Calculations in Durability Testing: Keeping Perspective, Kurt Munson
• Acumen-Structural Analysis by Designer, Michele Wegscheid
• Bolt Fatigue Progress Reports, Ralph Stephens 
• Fatigue and Failure Analysis, Doug Bailey
• Integration of the Fatigue Life Prediction into the optimization procedure, Helmut Dannbauer, Gerald Schwarz 

Weld Session

• Structural Stress Method, Michele Wegscheid
• Weld Challenge 2 A Life Prediction - RHS joints under variable amplitude loading, Pingsha Dong
• Weld Challenge 2, Ajay Vittalam

        For a result summary click here.

General Questionnaire to FD&E members:

What key issues of interest do you think FD&E should investigate?

Answers tabulated here.