Day 1
08:30 - REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:30 - CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
Andrew Plummer, Professor of Machine Systems, University of Bath
09:40 - DESIGN AND CONTROL OF DYNAMIC TESTING SYSTEMS
Keynote speaker to be announced
• Get an update on hydraulic, electric, electrodynamic and resonant test systems
• Hear the latest industry experience in closed loop control
• Review the current state of Iterative control systems
• Discuss the latest developments in model-in-the-loop systems
10:00 - AUTOMOTIVE STRUCTURAL TESTING
Dr Colin Dodds, Dodds and Associates, Independent Consultants
• Review component fatigue testing: the benefits of random loading or “Betriebsfestigkeit” over the classical sine wave loading
• Understand the advantages of aggregate durability testing, e.g. suspensions, engine mounts and radiators
• Review the objectives of complete vehicle durability testing and manage the cost effectiveness of the number of loading axes
• Discuss how to accelerate structural tests in the laboratory
• Identify current industrial practice and future trends
10:20 - AUTOMOTIVE SUSPENSION TESTING FOR DURABILITY AND CHARACTERISATION
Rick Meyers, Senior Application Engineer, MTS Systems Corporation
• Address the pros and cons of component vs. complete multi-axial suspension testing
• Discuss testing alternatives for testing active suspensions
• Understand the differences between durability and characterisation testing
10:40 - QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
An opportunity to put forward any questions to the session presenters
10:50 - NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:20 - HYBRID TESTING
David Wagg, Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics, The University of Sheffield
• Get an update on the development of hybrid testing for mechanical engineering applications
• Know recent developments based on real-time control
• Lean from application examples based on fluid based damper devices
11:40 - VIBRATION CONTROL
Steve Daley, Professor of Industrial Active Control, University of Southampton
• Get an overview of the current state of vibration control research
• Learn about the benefits of using optimal ILC methods for accelerated testing
• Design and development of a novel multi-axis electromechanical actuator for dynamic testing and vibration control
12:00 - CRASH TEST CATAPULTS
Rainer Hoffmann, Managing Director, Carhs GmbH
Michael DeLeeuw, Catapult Business Unit Manager, Instron GmbH
• Why crash catapult testing?
• Compare crash catapult testing and simulation
• Explore the limits of crash catapult testing
• Address the challenges for equipment design and control in closed-loop servocontrolled crash simulators
• Find out the latest about the use of advanced analytical modelling tools to identify system behaviour
• Learn about commercialisation of solutions and results
12:20 - QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
An opportunity to ask questions to the session presenters
12:30 - NETWORKING LUNCH
13:30 - AEROSPACE STRUCTURAL TESTING
Dr Andrew Halfpenny, Chief Technologist, HBM-nCode
• Get an update on the new “Test Tailoring” methodology for checking and deriving accelerated vibration tests based on MIL-STD-810G, DEF STAN 00-35, NATO STANAG 4370 and AECP-240
• Understand the relationships between Power Spectral Density (PSD), Shock Response Spectrum (SRS) and Fatigue Damage Spectrum (FDS)
• Discuss the benefits from testing with non-Gaussian vibration signals
13:50 - TRENDS, CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS IN PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL AIRFRAME TESTING. REAL-TIME DATA CORRELATION FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CRACK INITIATION
Hans Klaufus Solution Development Manager Aerospace Test Systems MOOG and Marco Nawijn, Managing Director, Colosso
• Faster testing by smarter testing
• Are current sensors up to the challenge?
• From pre-planned inspection intervals to condition-driven inspection intervals?
14:10 - EARTHQUAKE TESTING
Martin Williams, Professor in Structural Engineering, Fellow of New College, Oxford University
• Get an update on the development of pseudo-dynamic and real-time hybrid testing for earthquake engineering applications
• Understand the basics of distributed hybrid testing for large, complex structures
• Learn from case study tests on seismic energy dissipators
14:30 - EARTHQUAKE TESTING
George Taylor, Managing Director, Servotest Testing Systems Ltd
• Practical design issues in Seismic MAST design.
• Control platform : simplicity of platform v system complexity
• Examples of control issues with difficult requirements
• Scale testing conflicts in requirements: Seismic qualification vs. full scale model vs. scale model
14:50 - QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
An opportunity to ask questions to the session presenters
15:10 - NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
15:40 - CONTROL FOR MATERIALS TESTING
James Cooke, Senior Engineer, Analysis and Control, Instron
James Cunnane, Principal Engineer, Analysis and Control, Instron
• Understand the benefits of simultaneous automated tuning of position, load, and strain control loops for ElectroPuls linear electric motor testing machines, allowing non-expert users to achieve reliably good tuning
• Hear how a similar white-box method has now been applied to tuning of servohydraulic materials testing machines, which improves on common heuristic tuning methods
• Find out how testing of composites can be streamlined using a novel specimen temperature control method which improves test reproducibility and reduces testing time
16:00 - CONTROLLER PLATFORMS
Dr Anton D. Raath, Managing Director, CaTs3 Limited
• Review the practical benefits of digital technology on modern controller platforms
• Discuss the application of real-time adaptive controller strategies to provide practical solutions in industry
• Debate the benefits of time domain based modelling and simulation in controller platforms to replicate in-service loads in the laboratory and some recent developments in this field
16:20 - PLATFORMS FOR THE PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF YOUR SIMULATION AND CONTROL DESIGNS
Nick Williamson, Staff Systems Engineer, National Instruments
• Learn how to import your existing simulation code into environments that provide physical connectivity for control in the outside world
• Learn about some typical hardware platforms
• Find out how to achieve faster control using reconfigurable hardware
• Learn from real world application case studies
16:40 - QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
An opportunity to ask questions to the session presenters
16:50 - CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS
17:00 - END OF SEMINAR