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The 9th Global fe-safe User Group Meeting took place October 20-21 at Inn at St John’s, Plymouth, MI. We are pleased to say that this was our biggest UGM yet and we are grateful to all our attendees, sponsors, partners and employees who helped to make it such a success. A big thank you to all who contributed!

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Here is the agenda from the day:

•  Executive Remarks: Steve Crowley, Director, Technical Sales, NAM, SIMULIA
• Keynote 1: Recent Advances in the Master S-N Curve Method for Fatigue Characterization of Welded Components Prof. Pingsha Dong, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Director, Welded Structures Laboratory, University  of Michigan
• Developing Quasi-Static and Fatigue Loads for Earthmoving Vehicles to Optimize System Performance, Wayne Tanner, VP Simulation & Services, Adaptive Corp. on behalf of K-Tech Earthmovers
• fe-safe & Durability Development Roadmap, David Hawla, Durability R&D, Director, SIMULIA
• HPC Scalability in Fatigue Analysis for Engine Components, Alex Gnesin, Navistar Advanced Analysis & Simulation and  Rodney Mach, President, TOTAL CAE.
• fe-safe Deep Dive, fe-safe Technical Team, SIMULIA
  • Verity Modeling
  • Critical Distance Method in fe-safe
  • Infinite Life Methods
• Keynote 2: Metal Fatigue – Failure & Success, John Draper, Consultant, SIMULIA
• Fatigue Prediction Using Strain Correlated Loading from True-Load, Tim Hunter, CEO, Wolf Star Technologies on behalf of Nathan Marks, Cummins Inc
• FKM Guidelines: A New Compliance Algorithm in fe-safe 2016, Pawel Sobczak, Senior Technical Manager, SIMULIA
• Smart Tools to Post Process, Review and Share fe-safe Fatigue Results, Prasad Mandava, CEO, Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc.
• Fatigue Evaluation Procedure Development for Multiaxial Stress States in Welded Joints Using the Battelle Structural Stress Method, Dr JK Hong, Technical Lead, Center for Welded Structures Research, Battelle
• Development of a Durable Automotive Bushing with fe-safe/Rubber, Jaehwan Choi, Senior Technical Expert, SIMULIA