Summary
SAE FD&E Conference Call
2/16/06
Participants:
John
Bonnen, Chin Chan Chu, Russ Chernenkoff, Christoph Leser, Dan
Lingenfelser, Paul Lubinski, Dan Morrow
1)
Projects
Welds
John
gave an update; he is in discussion with Ralph Stephens and Dan
Lingenfelser on characterizing welded tubes. There is a plan of doing some
testing at the
University
of
Iowa
(Ralph Stephens). John is also in
contact with Hari Agrawal, Ali Saeedy and Helmut Dannbauer on their
contributions and presentations at SAE Congress.
Bolts
Darryl
Taylor, DCX, did not participate in the call. Christoph will discuss off
line status of the bolt initiative and what if anything, will be presented
at the SAE Congress meeting in April 2006.
2)
Future Meetings
Content/format
Sp
06 Cobo Hall
There
will be an executive meeting at Holiday Inn Express , 1020
Washington Blvd., Detroit, Michigan 48226, on Monday, 4/3/06 from 7:00 pm
until 8:00 pm. No food or drinks will be served.
Tuesday
all day and Wednesday morning will be filled with talks, John, Chin Chan
and Russ are organizing this.
Wednesday
afternoon is reserved for general FD&E business, including the Fuchs
award and updates on projects. Dan Morrow will host this session
(Christoph will not take part in this meeting).
We
(Dan morrow, John and Christoph) will talk on
3/1/06
,
10:00 am EST
about the details of the agenda for
Wednesday afternoon.
Christoph
will be sending out an email shortly with a reminder to book hotels (can
be done now until
3/13/06
via www.fatigue.org)
and a list of presentations.
Fa 06
Oakland
University
,
Detroit
Typical
meeting format, we expect the host, Professor Sayed Nassar, to organize a
tech session. Christoph and Dan will discuss this with Sayed.
We
will also be asking the G11 committee to send a representative to give us
an update on their activities.
3)
Liaisons:
ASTM
E08:
They have an initiative on residual stress, Christoph is involved and will
update FD&E members on this. Dan Lingenfelser will be the liaison
person for all general business. Their outgoing chairman, Mike Mitchel,
stated there is interest for joint activities.
SAE
Brazil
:
A request has been filed to stay closer in touch, Dan Morrow will be the
liaison.
SAE
Japan
:
Christoph
will be the liaison to saty in touch with them Dan Lingenfelser suggested
to get in touch with Ms Koyoke (sp?).
G11:
They are now called “SAE
Reliability Applications Committee” and is part of the same group as
FD&E, i.e. the Materials, Parts and Processes council, and are
a "sister" committee to us. We will stay on close contact with
them and update each other on activities. Dan Lingenfelser will be the
liaison person
4)
Website
It
was decided that Chin Chan assumes the role as web police, to monitor the
site for general completeness and accuracy.
Project
owners will still be responsible for their sections content.
5)
Other items
No
other business was brought up.
6)
Conference Calls
We
expect to have such conference calls 2-3 times per year, next time with a
web eetin and voice conference call.
Submitted by
Christoph Leser
christoph.leser(at)mts.com
(952) 937 4147
