The NAFEMS Nordic Regional Summit 2008 will be held at the Hotel 11 in Gothenburg on 17th & 18th November 2008. Entitled Best Practises and Trends in Engineering Simulation and Analysis, the Conference will give delegates an unrivalled independent insight into the current best practices and state-of-the-art in FEA, CFD, MBS, SDM and associated technologies, providing the most comprehensive overview and trends of the technology available.

The two-day conference aims to increase awareness and provide a discussion forum for topics that are important and relevant to engineering industrialists and academics.

If you are an analyst, engineer, team leader or manager that has a responsibility for ensuring that a fit-for-purpose engineering solution is obtained from the use of modern simulation software, then you should attend.

The event is open to both members and non-members of NAFEMS, with members able to attend the event for free , as part of their membership benefits package.

 Agenda *

Please note: There will be an accompanying exhibition of Software and Hardware vendors!

17th November 2008

09:30 am         
Registration

10:15 am         
Welcome and NAFEMS Introduction
Roger Oswald (NAFEMS GmbH, D)

10:25 am         
Keynote Presentation:
CAE Driven Product Development at Saab Automobile
M. Öman (Saab Automobile/ GM, S)

11:00 am         
Multi-Body Simulation of Automotive Road Loads for Durability Design A. Wirje (Volvo Car Group, S )

11:25 am         
Optimized Chassis & Suspension Engineering through CAE
L. Terna (LMS International, B)

11:50 am         
Sponsor Presentation: Altair Engineering H. Ekman (Altair Engineering AB, S)

12:10 am         
Lunch

01:20 pm         
Keynote Presentation:
Simulation Driven Design of Aseptic Filling Machines at TetraPak
U. Lindblad, J. Olsson, M. Olsson (TetraPak, S)

01:55 pm         
An Experimental Validation of a Light Duty Diesel Engine´ Lube System    
C. Scott, G. Ferraro (Cummins Ltd, UK)

02:20 pm         
Large Eddy Simulation of Transitional Pipe Flow     
R. Gårdhagen (Linköping University, S)

02:45 pm         
On Modeling of Fluid-tructure Interaction Effects using a so-called Added Mass Approach L. Zeng (ÅF-Engineering AB, Sweden)

03:10 pm         
Coffee break

03:50 pm         
Recent Progresses in High Performance Structural Dynamics with PERMAS
R. Helfrich (INTES GmbH, D)

04:15 pm         
Stress-Adaptation for Ceramic Hubs in Hybrid Interference Fits
M. Blacha, H. Binz (University of Stuttgart, D)

04:40 pm         
The CCOPPS Project … whither now?
Finite Element Analysis of Pressure Systems and Components
J. Wood (University of Strathclyde, UK)

05:05 pm         
NAFEMS Skills Management Initiative P. Newton (Member of the NAFEMS Council); M. Zehn (Vice President of NAFEMS Council), T. Morris (CEO, NAFEMS Ltd.)

05:30 pm         
Short Break

05:40 pm         
NAFEMS Annual General Meeting

06:40 pm         
Beverages & Snacks in the exhibition area

08:00 pm         
End of day 1

18th November 2008

08:30 am         
Integration of Simulation, Model Validation and Design Optimization with an Example from Automotive Engineering E. Dascotte (Dynamic Design Solutions (DDS), B)

08:55 am         
Best Practices and Trends in Automotive CAE
D. Orth (Semcon Caran AB, S)

09:20 am         
The AUTOSIM Project and Recent Advances in Simulation Model Generation
A. Torvund (SimEvolution AS, N); R. Schweiger (TechnoStar Europe GmbH, D)

09:45 am         
Coffee break

10:25 am         
The CAE process in Product Development of Tomorrow M. Eriksson (Lund Institute of Technology, S)

10:50 am         
Upfront CAE. Concepts, Implementation & Industrial Examples
P.-O. Jansell (Altair Engineering AB)

11:15 am         
The Use of MSC.SIMXPERT Templates to Capture and Standardize Upon Best Practise CAE Methods in the Design Progress S. Thynelius (MSC Software Sweden AB, S);
K. Östergren (ITW Sweden AB, S)

11:40 am          Lunch

12:50 am         
EnterpriseSimulation Management
T. Pawela (MSC.Software Corporation, USA)

01:15 pm         
PDM for Simulation R. Gustafsson (Maxiom AB, S)

01:40 pm         
Challenges of FEA on Wind Turbine Blades P. Nielsen, F. M. Jensen, P. Berring, K. Branner (Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark, DK)

02:05 pm         
Coffee break

02:40 pm         
Residual Stress Effects on Fatigue Life of Welded Structures
Z. Barsoum (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), S)

03:05 pm         
Weld Fatigue Evaluation as an Integrated Part of the Design Process
M. Lauth (Medeso AB, S)

03:30 pm         
A new Material Model, Tested with Applications from the Paper Industry T. Andersson (A-Dev, S)

03:55 pm         
Farewell

04:00 pm         
End of day 2

            * Final program could be subject to alterations