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Save on travel, money and time with SMI's online seminar:
A Deeper Look into Spring Failures

Learning how springs function in order to optimize design and prevent failures

Last seminar held November 29, 2008
Please check back for future dates

Registration Fee:
$165/computer terminal/member
$210/computer terminal/nonmember
Who Should Attend
 Spring designers, engineers and plant managers
Schedule

Get the same critical information but eliminate the costs of travel, rooming and time by logging onto the SMI online seminar, A Deeper Look Into Spring Failures, conducted by Luke Zubek, SMI Technical Director

Last class held: Thursday, November 29, 2008.


SMI's online seminar is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Central time) which is:

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Eastern
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Mountain
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific

 Agenda

During this Webinar, participants will:
  • Review the shear stress distribution to predict the most likely location of spring failures.
  • Explore some of the most critical elements to producing “good” (and bad) spring wire.
  • Find out what answers you should expect from your next failure analysis.
  • Discuss eight case studies that show common problems encountered during spring design and processing.
  • Learn about the two most common causes of hydrogen embrittlement and how to avoid them
  • Identify the mechanisms and characteristics of fatigue failures. Is there a “good” fatigue failure?

Participants will miss having the coffee breaks (unless you provide). Otherwise, it's as if they were actually in the classroom with the same detailed information and communication opportunities available to them.
How it Works
Don't leave the conference room, because now you and your staff can participate in an multimedia online seminar that will help you assess and avoid spring failures.
The multimedia presentation is "Webcast," with audio connections by conference call. Price is set per computer terminal, so you can have as many people as possible clustered around the screen.

Participants will receive the appropriate handouts, and telephone numbers and access codes to log onto the broadcast prior to the actual seminar.

Participants have the same ability to ask questions and develop a real-time give-and-take information session as if they were in the same room as the instructor, even though they may be thousands of miles away.

Ask questions and take notes. This virtual seminar will save your company hundreds of dollars in travel expenses and time.

Instructor Luke Zubek P.E.
 The online seminar will be conducted by Luke Zubek P.E., SMI's technical director. He was an engineer at a major steel company for 10 years and has over 20 years' experience in the metals industry. His education includes a master’s of materials and metallurgical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s in metallurgical engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago.
Cancellation Policy
The enrollment fee (minus a $20 nonrefundable registration charge) may be refunded up to November 21, 2009. SMI reserves the right to cancel the program by November 21, 2009 if an insufficient number of people register. In case of cancellation, SMI will refund all deposits.

Confirmation
Instructions for the Web seminar will be e-mailed to all participants after November 21, 2009.

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