Fatigue Design and Evaluation Committee

FD&E Spring 2009 Meeting

Meeting Date: April 15, 2009

Location: American Foundry Society (AFS)
1695 N. Penny Lane
Schaumburg, IL 60173-4555
Host: Thomas Prucha

C. Beckermann (Univ. of Iowa) - Fatigue Life Simulation of Steel Castings Containing Shrinkage Porosity (via webex)
C. Heisser (Magmasoft) - Residual stresses created in the casting or quenching/heat treatment process helped to optimize designs to achieve their fatigue requirements,
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Gangasani (Durabar) - Fatigue Properties of continuous cast iron bar,
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J Shah (PDA) & T. Prucha (AFS) - review AFS CAD web material database development & Strain controlled fatigue project,
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Review of weld and notch challenge
- Aditya Chotopada
- Lingenfelser: Life Prediction Variability
- Lingenfelser: Weld Issues
- Weld Challenge Note on previous results
- Desire to test more samples to obtain more reliable averages, specimen cost is $50 plus shipping, the test fixture can be made available by Tom Cordes, load frame capacity needs to be 6,000 lb or higher
Planning for next meeting
Tentatively scheduled for October 2009, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
Future Activities Proposal
Discussion:
Will get other volunteers to report on current research activities.