Description
Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024
10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (CDT)
The Spring Manufacturers Institute (SMI) will offer our spring design training class for Springs – Fatigue on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, from 10:00am – 2:30pm CDT. It will be held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention & Conference Center in Rosemont, Illinois.
The course will build upon the principles taught in the basic courses, 201 Compression Spring Design, 202 Extension Spring Design, and 203 Torsion Spring Design. It is recommended that students complete the 200 level courses or have equivalent knowledge before signing up for this course.
The course is designed as a focused, real-world spring design training session.
Students will learn:
- The causes and mechanisms of failure in springs
- The definition of fatigue and three stage fatigue failure process
- The four key factors of fatigue
- Fatigue design considerations for a successful project utilizing the SMI seven step spring design process
- Goodman diagram interpretation and how to input engineering fatigue test data into the ASD7 software
- Fatigue failure analysis methodology overview
Students will have the opportunity to seek opinions and clarification of any fatigue-related issues which they may have.
This class will benefit the student by increasing their knowledge of fatigue of springs, and their company by having an SMI-trained associate as part of their team.
The training course instructor is Richard Gordon, Technical Director at SMI. Rick has many years of experience in the wire industry and SMI, conducting failure analysis projects on springs. He currently oversees SMI’s failure analysis program.
The cost for the program is $295 for SMI members and $425 for nonmembers, and includes lunch, drinks and snacks.
SMI will provide an ASD7 30-day license to each registered participant.