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1 NEWSLETTER Issue 7, March 2005 FENet coordinates activities within Europe aimed at impro- ving both the quality of indu- strial applications of finite element (F.E.) technology and the level of confidence that can be placed in the computed results. Its principal objective is to collate and structure exi- sting information and to facili- tate the efficient exchange of experience and knowledge within, and between, different industrial sectors in the Euro- pean Community. By conduc- ting state of the art reviews and documenting best practice the network expects to impact on the efficiency of European industry. The network will run for an initial period of four years. Contents of this issue Some Reflections on the Project - Pro jec t Coo rdinator 1 - Assis tant Coor dinator 1 - Co-cordinator 3 History - Glasgow, UK 4 - Lisbon, Portugal 4 - Bu da pe st , Hu ng ar y 5 Meeting Overview 6 Contacts 5 Final FENet Me et in g 6 Fax Reply Form 7 www.FE-NET.org FENET THEMATIC NETWORK Contract No G1RT-CT-2001-05034 COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH (GROWTH) PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES OF THE FENet EC PROJECT Last FENet This is the real “measure” of  success of the project. We would like to thank you for your continued support for the network. As NAFEMS takes on further projects of this nature we hope you will feel able to provide the same level of enthusiasm for participation as we have experi- enced during the FENet project. Assistant Coordinator Nigel Knowles Some 5 years after the first approaches to the EC about crea- ting FENet, it is perhaps appro- priate to reflect on how the thin- king behind the original proposal has stood the test of time. continued on page 2 Paul Newton Managing Director NAFEMS Ltd. Tim Morris Chief Operating Officer NAFEMS Ltd. Nigel Knowles Assistant Coordinator of the FENet Project Some Reflections on the Project Project Coordinator Paul Newton and Tim Morris NAFEMS Ltd. As we approach the end of the FENet project it is appropriate to try to objectively review how successful the project has been. There is no doubt we have met, or will meet, our formal goals . We have produced over fifty reports or documents, held four Annual Industry Meetings and, so far, run 37 Workshops. These are all important aspects for the project to achieve. However, for a project of this nature, these are really just the basics that must be achieved to be considered successful. The real value of the project must come from the level of interaction between the participants. The knowledge you gain and the con- tacts you make create an un- quantifiable benefit to all partici- pants. Certainly, the formal feed- back we have tried to capture after each meeting indicates that most participants feel very posi- tive about their participation in all of the meetings. But, for us, the real demonstration of the success of the project has been the num- ber of participants who have con- tinued to regularly attend the meetings throughout the life of the project. Participants are still finding issues that generate lively discussion about the current state of simu- lation technology. What is more, four years on, there are still a number of important issues that have been identified which we have not had time to include in our programme of activities. So, even at the end of the project, we have a dynamic group of people actively thinking about issues that need to be tackled in the future.

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Issue 7, March 2005

FENet coordinates activities

within Europe aimed at impro-

ving both the quality of indu-

strial applications of finite

element (F.E.) technology and

the level of confidence that can

be placed in the computed

results. Its principal objective

is to collate and structure exi-

sting information and to facili-tate the efficient exchange of 

experience and knowledge

within, and between, different

industrial sectors in the Euro-

pean Community. By conduc-

ting state of the art reviews and

documenting best practice the

network expects to impact on

the efficiency of European

industry. The network will run

for an initial period of four 

years.

Contents of this issue

Some Reflections on the

Project

- Project Coordinator 1

- Assistant Coordinator 1

- Co-cordinator 3

History- Glasgow, UK 4

- Lisbon, Portugal 4

- Budapest, Hungary 5

Meeting Overview 6

Contacts 5

Final FENet Meeting 6

Fax Reply Form 7

www.FE-NET.org

FENET THEMATIC NETWORK

Contract No G1RT-CT-2001-05034

COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE

GROWTH (GROWTH) PROGRAMME

OBJECTIVES OF THE

FENet EC PROJECT

Last FENet

This is the real “measure” of 

success of the project.

We would like to thank you for 

your continued support for the

network. As NAFEMS takes onfurther projects of this nature we

hope you will feel able to provide

the same level of enthusiasm for 

participation as we have experi-

enced during the FENet project.

Assistant Coordinator 

Nigel Knowles

Some 5 years after the first

approaches to the EC about crea-

ting FENet, it is perhaps appro-

priate to reflect on how the thin-

king behind the original proposal

has stood the test of time.

continued on page 2 

Paul Newton 

Managing Director NAFEMS Ltd.

Tim Morris 

Chief Operating Officer NAFEMS Ltd.

Nigel Knowles 

Assistant Coordinator of the FENet Project 

Some Reflections on the Project

Project Coordinator 

Paul Newton and Tim Morris

NAFEMS Ltd.

As we approach the end of theFENet project it is appropriate to

try to objectively review how

successful the project has been.

There is no doubt we have met,

or will meet, our formal goals. We

have produced over fifty reports

or documents, held four Annual

Industry Meetings and, so far, run

37 Workshops. These are all

important aspects for the project

to achieve. However, for a projectof this nature, these are really just

the basics that must be achieved

to be considered successful.

The real value of the project must

come from the level of interaction

between the participants. The

knowledge you gain and the con-

tacts you make create an un-

quantifiable benefit to all partici-

pants. Certainly, the formal feed-

back we have tried to capture

after each meeting indicates that

most participants feel very posi-

tive about their participation in allof the meetings. But, for us, the

real demonstration of the success

of the project has been the num-

ber of participants who have con-

tinued to regularly attend the

meetings throughout the life of 

the project.

Participants are still finding issues

that generate lively discussion

about the current state of simu-

lation technology. What is more,four years on, there are still a

number of important issues that

have been identified which we

have not had time to include in

our programme of activities. So,

even at the end of the project, we

have a dynamic group of people

actively thinking about issues that

need to be tackled in the future.

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The 2000 proposal to the Euro-

pean Commission was, of cour-se, initiated quite quickly against

a tight deadline and there was

little time to discuss and develop

the underlying thinking. The ideas

embodied in the 2 page “briefing

document” that NAFEMS circu-

lated to its European members

were quite untested with the

recipients but nonetheless 167

organisations expressed a wish

to be included in the formal pro-

posal to the EC to establishFENet.

One undeclared aspect of the

underlying rationale of the pro-

posal to the EC was a desire for 

NAFEMS to become more Euro-

pean. A thematic network was

seen as a useful tool to help in

this process. Now, 5 years on,

NAFEMS is increasingly interna-

tional (or perhaps multi-national?)

in its operations; Council has re-

presentatives from 6 different

countries and local steering

groups are in operation in 7 areas

worldwide. FENet has contribu-

ted to this change and benefited

from it.

Returning to the briefing docu-

ment and quoting from it:

„Finite element technology is one

of the industrial success stories

of the last twenty years. It is now routinely used for simulation and 

analysis in most sectors of indu-

stry and is a key component of 

the modern CAE process.

Nevertheless, despite this appa-

rent maturity, there still remain a

number of technical barriers that 

restrict its use. Accordingly it re-

mains a fruitful area for research

and development in both aca-

demia and industry. The driversfor this work are several and 

include

• Increasingly stringent safety 

standards requiring increa-sed accuracy and reliability 

• Integration into CAE proces-

ses necessitating increased 

functionality and efficiency 

Taken together these drivers

explain the enormous effort going

into the further development of 

FE technology in order to support 

the vision of faithful real time

simulation of real world behaviour 

to whatever level of detail is re-quired. The research addresses

areas as diverse as modeling of 

materials (ranging from concrete

to human tissues), multi-physics

phenomena, ultra-high speed 

computing, visualisation, data

exchange protocols, e-commerce

and e-working.“ 

Subsequently the briefing docu-

ment was expanded into the full

proposal and further commen-

taries about the perceived state

of practice in the eight key indu-

stry sectors were added. These

commentaries remain remarkably

topical today - although the em-

phasis has no doubt changed as

technology has evolved.

This of course does not mean that

nothing has been achieved. In

fact, as a result of the activities

of FENet we hopefully now have

a far better understanding of whatthese somewhat superficial ex-

pressions mean in each of the

industrial sectors and what is

being done about it. In particular 

we have attempted to establish

consensus, through discussions

at the Annual Industry Meetings,

about the importance of each

issue and we have ranked each

one in terms of the availability of 

the supporting technology (“Tech-

nology Readiness Level” ), thedegree to which industry has

espoused it (“Maturity Level ”) and

in terms of its overall importance

to the industry (“Priority level” ).This common understanding is

documented in the Annual Indu-

stry Reports. Although some con-

tributors feel uncomfortable be-

cause they were not able to con-

sult fully with world –wide FE user 

base, nonetheless the reports do

represent the considered views

of the FENet community -compri-

sing some 110 organisations and

they surely bear wider dissemi-

nation and scrutiny. Potentiallythey are authoritative statements

which could be influential in

determining future technology

strategy policy – for example in

shaping research programmes.

Accordingly the Industry Co-

ordinators have been invited to

present their reports at the NA-

FEMS World Congress in Malta.

At a technical level a number of 

issues were identified at the

outset which are shared, to some

extent, by all industry sectors.

They include;

• Modeling real materials

• Confidence in results

• Integrating fe into the busi-

ness process and delivering

real benefit

• How to treat and allow for 

the effect of uncertainty in

models of the real world.

There appears to be increa-sing recognition that ser-

viceability and reliability are

important drivers in many

sectors of industry. This

issue has grown accordingly

over the network’s lifetime.

Annual Industry meetings were

given over to the first 3 of the

above and the issues were explo-

red in some depth. Many challen-

ges nonetheless remain.

On a technical level, the proposal

grouped technical topics into 3main areas – Durability and Life

Extension, Product and System

Optimisation, Multiphysics and

Analysis. (In the first proposal

there were six topic areas, but

these were further concatenated

when the EC said that they would

provide only half the funds re-

quested. In hindsight it is inte-

resting to reflect whether we

could have undertaken a wider 

set of activities). The ensuingacronyms – DLE, MPA and PSO

– appear to have become accep-

ted by the wider FE community.

DLE has been strongly supported

and there has been a lot of 

interest focusing mostly on dura-

bility rather than life extension.

For example the modeling of 

damage & deterioration. The brief 

has been interpreted very widely

however. Notable work on con-

tact benchmarks has been done

and useful state of the art reviews

(STARS) on weld simulation and

nonlinear fracture mechanics

Relative to the other RTD areas

support for PSO has been dis-

appointing. It appears that in

many industry sectors, product

optimization is seen as a rela-

tively mature technology (system

optimization has not really been

addressed in depth) and issuesaddressed in other areas have

taken priority. Such prioritization

is unfortunately inevitable when

running parallel workshops and

PSO has suffered as a result.

Nevertheless a core group has

done some good work. Five tech-

nical reports on optimization me-

thods have been delivered and

one STAR.

On the other hand, MPA has“come of age” during the net-

work’s lifetime. Most commercial

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codes now claim a multiphysics

capability (although the coupling

is not always very strong) and

there is a far better understanding

of what is required and what is

possible. The hands-on work-

shops have proved very success-

ful in this respect.

A key objective of FENet has of 

course been to disseminate a

better understanding of best

practice into the FE community.

The various Education & Dis-

semination workshops have

addressed the issues involved.

Much has been done but overall

progress has been disappointing

and there remains a lot of work

still to do. Barriers to uptake were

identified early on, a world wide

survey was undertaken andlargely confirmed them but it has

proved much more difficult to

decide how to address them.

(This is not to denigrate the value

of the work done, but rather to

recognize the scale of the task).

One notable outcome has been

the resurrection of NAFEMS Q A

working group (now renamed the

Analysis Management Group).

Judging by the feedback recei-ved, FENet has been a success.

This success is due in no small

measure to the enthusiastic work

of the Industry and RTD Coor-

dinators. The latter in particular 

have contributed generously with

their time in organizing and

leading the technical workshops

and I suspect have put far more

into the project than they got out.

MY thanks to them all.

NAFEMS faces a number of 

challenges in serving its increa-

singly worldwide membership. In

particular 

• How to decide and respond

to topics of importance to

membership?

• How to tap expertise and

skills of European (andworldwide) membership?

• How to disseminate know-

ledge at European level?

• How to operate as an inter-

national (c.f. multinational)

organisation?

FENet has provided a vehicle to

help answer some of these ques-

tions and to test ideas. I am con-

fident that NAFEMS will be see-

king similar opportunities to con-tinue its networking activities.

Heike Wankel 

Werbos GbR 

Albert Roger Oswald 

Werbos GbR 

FENet Co-Coordinator 

Heike Wankel and Albert 

Roger Oswald, Werbos GbR

During the last four years of the

FENet project we organized lots

of interesting FENet workshops

and FENet Industry seminars all

over Europe. In all of the mee-

tings we tried to bring some local

flair in and managed a smooth

progress through the meeting.

We hope that you enyojed every

meeting you attended.

We like to thank all the local peo-

ple who helped us, especially we

like to thank those who offered to

host a meeting in their company

facilities.

Over the years a sum of almost

1.000 delegates visited the FENet

events. We now have more than

850 contacts of interested FE

users all over the world in the

FENet database. In addition 7

Newsletter were published and

almost all presentations are put

on the FENet website.

It was very exciting to meet

people from all over Europe. To

learn from each other is - beneath

many other - one big benefit of 

the project.

It was a great pleasure to be part

at this project. We are looking

very forward to meet you again.

Again, many, many thanks to

allwho are involved in the project.

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NSC Meeting

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

6th October 2004

Prior to the 7th FENet Technology

Workshops an NSC meeting was

held in the Companile Hotel in

Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

7th Technology Workshops

Glasgow, Scotland, UK,

7th - 8th October 2004

The 7th FENet Technology Work-

shops were held at the Moat

House Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland,

UK.

Durability and Life Extension

(DLE):

- Advanced FE Contact

Benchmarks - Users Feed-back

- Finite Element Modelling

of Damage

Multi Physics and Analysis

(MPA):

- Practical Experience of 

Computational Modelling of 

Multi-Physics Problems

using AUTODYN

Product and System

Optimisation (PSO):

- Process Integration andMultidisciplinary Design

Optimisation

Results of the feedback form – FENET Technology Workshops, 7 th  - 8 th  October 2004 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Education & Dissemination

(E&D):

- Dissemination of Best

Practice – Finite Element

Modelling

The workshops were attended by

62 delegates - again, most of 

them FENet members. The work-

shops started with two parallel

workshops on DLE and E&D. In

the afternoon there were three

parallel sessions on DLE, MPA

and PSO, continuing on the mor-

ning session of the second day.

Again there was a plenary ses-

sion in the afternoon with sum-

mary reports and discussions

from each Workshop Chairman.

Downloads at www.fe-net.org.

4th FENET Annual Industry

Meeting & AGM

„Materials Modelling“

Lisbon, Portugal

2nd - 3rd December 2004

The theme of the 4 th FENET

Annual Industry Meeting”, held in

the Sana Lisboa Park Hotel, was

“materials modelling” or more

specifically “How to categorise

and analyse real material beha-viour”. All industry sectors repre-

FENet HISTORY

(cont´d from Newsletter 6, August 2004)

Moat House Hotel (left) and SECC (right) on the banks of The River Clyde, Glasgow 

sented in FENET have identified

this as an area of topical impor-

tance. It embraces a wide set of 

issues including constitutive

modelling, data requirements,

testing & test data processing,

scale effects, data provenance,

validation/qualification, Q.A.

materials data bases, etc.

The meeting provided the oppor-

tunity for participants to share

their experiences of how they are

tackling these issues and to learn

Hotel Gellért

what is being done in various

industry sectors, with 20 presen-

tations illustrating the “state-of-

practice“ in each of the eight

industry sectors represented by

the FENET Thematic Network.

There was also a break out ses-

sion when industry coordinators

led an interactive discussion

addressing simulation issues andoverall technology requirements

in their sectors.

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Results of the feedback form – 4th FENET Annual Industry Workshop & AGM, 2 nd  - 3 rd  December 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Praça Império, Império square, Lisbon Photo: José Manuel, © 2004 Icep Portugal 

Results of the feedback form – FENET Technology Workshops, 24 th  - 25 th  February 2005 in Budapest, Hungary.

NSC Meeting

Budapest, Hungary

23rd February 2005

Prior to the 8th FENet TechnologyWorkshops an NSC meeting was

held in the Gellert Hotel in Buda-

pest, Hungary.

8th Technology Workshops

Budapest, Hungary

24th - 25th February 2005

The 8th FENet Technology Work-

shops were held at the Gellert

Hotel in Budapest, Hungary.

Education & Dissemination (ED)

and Durability and Life Extensi-

on (DLE):

- Design by Analysis: The use

of Finite Element Analysesin Design Codes of Practice

- part I

Durability and Life Extension

(DLE):

- Design by Analysis: The use

of Finite Element Analyses in

Design Codes of Practice -

part II

- Contact Benchmarks

Multi Physics and Analysis

(MPA):

- Practical Experience of Computational Modelling of 

Thermal-Fluid-Structure

Interaction

Product and System

Optimisation (PSO):

- Process Management ToolsApplied in Industrial Multi-

disciplinary Design Process

- Visualisation in Multi-

dimensional Space

The workshops were attended by

67 delegates - again, most of 

them FENet members. The work-

shops started with a plenary joint

workshop on DLE and E&D. In

the afternoon there were three

parallel sessions on DLE, MPAand PSO, continuing on the mor-

ning session of the second day

and a plenary session with sum-

mary reports and discussions

from each Workshop Chairman.

Downloads at www.fe-net.org.

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1st NSC Meeting London, United Kingdom 27th - 28th Sept. 2001 28

1st Annual FENET Industry Meeting & AGM Wiesbaden, Germany 13th to 15th Nov. 2001 148 (both)

• Industry Analysis Requirements Workshop 13th - 14th Nov. 2001 93

• FENET / NAFEMS Seminar: „FEM in Structural Dynamics“, 14th - 15th Nov. 2001 111

Workshop Planning Meeting (RTD Co-ordinators) London, United Kingdom 18th Dec. 2001 6

1st Technology Workshops Copenhagen, Denmark 27th - 28th Feb. 2002 76

NSC Meeting and EC Review Copenhagen, Denmark 1st March 2002 27

Workshop Planning Meeting (RTD Co-ordinators) London, United Kingdom 12th

April 2002 7NAFEMS/FENET Awareness Seminar:

„Web Based Training for Engineering Analysis“ Zurich, Switzerland 12th June 2002 80

2nd Technology Workshops Zurich, Switzerland 13th - 14th June 2002 76

Workshop Planning London, United Kingdom 18th July 2002 3/3

3rd Technology Workshops Trieste, Italy 11th - 12th Sept. 2002 55

NSC Meeting Trieste, Italy 13th Sept. 2002 27

2nd Annual Industry Meeting & AGM Prague, Czech Rep. 11th - 13th Dec. 2002

• „Workshop: „Proposals for the EC Framework VI Programme“ 11th Dec. 2002 58

• „Integration of Engineering Analysis into the Business Process“ 12th - 13th Dec. 2002 93

NSC Meeting Barcelona, Spain 26th Feb. 2003 27

4th Technology Workshops Barcelona, Spain 27th - 28th Feb. 2003 76

Joint ESA-NASA Workshop on Data Exchange Standards Washington DC, USA 7th - 10th April 2003 --

NAFEMS World Congress Orlando, USA 27th - 31th May 2003 > 150

Structural Reliability (joint meeting with ASRAnet and I.StructE) London, United Kingdom 27th June 2003 54

NSC Meeting and EC Review Noordwijk, NL 8th Oct. 2003 23

5th Technology Workshops Noordwijk, NL 9th - 10th Oct. 2003 96

3rd Annual Industry Meeting & AGM Hamburg, Germany 4th - 5th Dec. 2003 82

NSC Meeting Majorca, Spain 24th March 2004 22

6th Technology Workshops Majorca, Spain 25th - 26th March 2004 60

ASRAnet International Colloquium on Structural Reliability Barcelona, Spain 5th - 7th July 2004 --

NSC Meeting Glasgow, UK 6th October 2004 27

7th Technology Workshops Glasgow, UK 7th - 8th October 2004 62

4th Annual Industry Meeting & AGM Lisbon, Portugal 2th - 3th Dec. 2004 67

NSC Meeting Budapest, Hungary 23th Feb. 2005 27

8th Technology Workshops Budapest, Hungary 24th - 25th Feb. 2005 67

7th ESA-NASA Workshop on Product Data Exchange Atlanta, Georgia, USA 19th - 22th April 2005 --

ASRAnet Meeting London, UK 15th March 2005 --

NAFEMS World Congress + FENet Final Project Meetings Malta 17th - 20th May 2005 N.N.

MEETING LOCATION DATE ATTENDEES

Previous and future official FENet meetings 

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Co-ordinators

NAFEMS Ltd. Tim Morris [email protected]

NAFEMS Ltd. Paul Newton [email protected]

NAFEMS Ltd. David Quinn [email protected]

University of Cranfield Nigel Knowles [email protected]

Werbos GbR Roger Oswald [email protected]

RTD Thematic Area Co-ordinators

Multi Physics & Analysis University of Greenwich Mark Cross [email protected]

University of Greenwich Avril Slone [email protected]

CIMNE Michele Chiumenti [email protected]

Durability and Life Extension University of Nottingham Adib Becker [email protected]

University of Padova Nicola Petrone [email protected]

Product & System Optimisation Qinetiq Peter Bartholomew [email protected]

Universita de Trieste Carlo Poloni [email protected]

Education & Dissemination University of Wrexham John Smart [email protected]

University of Strathclyde Jim Wood [email protected]

Industry Co-ordinators

Civil Construction TNO Diana b.v. Gerd-Jan Schreppers [email protected]

Norut Teknology Ltd Geir Horrigmoe [email protected]

Biomechanics Sulzer Markets & Technology AG Yasar Deger [email protected]

Integrated Analysis Solutions Laurence Marks [email protected]

Process and Manufacturing SKF Engineering & Research Centre Gerrit-Jan Dop [email protected]

Engin Soft Trading s.r.l. Stefano Odorizzi [email protected]

Consumer Goods IDAC Ltd David Ellis [email protected]

Nokia Danmark A/S Niels Dam Lerke [email protected]

Land Transport LMS International Peter Segaert [email protected]

Labein Fernando Espiga [email protected] EADS/ Airbus David Fitzsimmons [email protected]

ESTEC Hans Peter de Koning [email protected]

Marine and Offshore Qinetiq John McVee [email protected]

Nevesbu b.v. Jack Reijmers [email protected]

Power and Pressure Systems NNC Ltd Nawal Prinja [email protected]

DTLR Iain Davidson [email protected]

ã Copyright 2005. All rights reserved.The FENet Newsletter is published by WERBOS GbR for the FENet community. Subscriptions to the FENet Newsletter are free to qualified recipients. The Newsletter can be

downloaded from the FENet website http://www.fe-net.org. The content of the FENet Newsletter has been carefully reviewed and is deemed to be accurate and complete.

However, WERBOS GbR doesn´t guarantee or warrant accuracy or completeness of the material contained in this publication. Trademarks and registered trademarks are the

property of their respective owners. Enquiries should be sent to Werbos GbR, Schillerstr. 6, D-85567 Grafing b. München, Germany, phone +49-(0)8092-83550, fax +49-(0)8092-

83551, e-mail: [email protected]

FENet CONTACT INFORMATION

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Final FENet MeetingsThe Final FENet Project Meetings will be integrated

into the NAFEMS World Congress, 17th - 20th May

2005 in St Julians, Malta.

The NAFEMS World Congress

2005 will bring together world

leading industrial practitioners,

consultancies, academic resear-

chers and software developers

with a common interest in engi-

neering analysis. The event will

provide an exclusive insight into

established methods and best

practices, along with a vision of 

how future technologies will have

an ever increasing impact on the

product development process.

International Conference

This will be the 10th international

conference organised by NA-

FEMS. These conferences are

widely held to provide a forum for 

presenting a unique combination

of innovative techniques and bestpractice methods. A wide range

of leading industrial experts,

along with academic researchers

at the forefront of the simulation

field, will assemble together.

Knowledge and experience will

be exchanged, enabling those

present to further develop their 

understanding of current best

practices and the future state of 

the art.

140 high quality papers

In total, 140 high quality papers

will be presented at the congress.

The papers are from many indu-

stry sectors, and come from

countries around the globe, pro-

viding excellent technical cover-

age of the conference themes.

The promise excellent technical

content, and combined with our 

invited speakers, who are all lea-

ding figures from industry and

academia, will make this an out-standing event for all those in the

engineering analysis community.

FENet Presentations

Presentations from RTD themes

on

• Durability and Life Extension

• Multi-physics and Analysis,

• Product and System Optimi-

zation)• Education & Dissemination

from eight Industry areas on

• Aerospace

• Land Transport

• Bio-Medical

• Civil Construction

• Consumer Goods

• Marine & Offshore

• Power & Pressure Systems• Process & Manufacturing

as well as a summary paper on

the FENet project are integrated

into the agenda of the World

Congress.

The presentations are not inclu-

ded in the NAFEMS World Con-

ference proceedings but will be

separately distributed.

An invitation for FENet member 

will be sent out immediately.

FENet Budget

FENet members can reclaim

travel costs, cost for accomo-

dation and half of the attendee

fees = 412,50 Euro against their 

FENet budget (if available!!).

Registration

Please register with the registra-

tion form provided with the invi-

tation for the NAFEMS World

Congress and with the invitation

for FENet members and send it

directly to NAFEMS.

Conference Venue

Held in the picturesque setting of 

the 5 star Intercontinental Hotel,

St. Julians, Malta, the 2005

Congress is easily accessible

from across the globe, giving

delegates the opportunity to visit

some of the wonderful sites andarchitecture on this lovely Medi-

terranean Island.

In Malta, you’ll explore 7000years of history yet live passion-

ately in the present. You’ll span

the millennia with an astonishing

array of things to discover. And

wherever you go, the Islands’

scenery and architecture provide

a spectacular backdrop. The

colours are striking. Honey-

coloured stone against the dee-

pest of Mediterranean blues.

Located in a prime position at StGeorge’s Bay, InterContinental

Malta is only ten kilometres from

Malta International Airport, seven

kilometres from the historic

capital of Valletta, and within

walking distance of some of 

Malta’s finest shopping, entertain-

ment and nightlife in St Julian’s.

Malta offers numerous sight-

seeing attractions and the nearby

islands of Gozo and Comino

enjoy a quieter pace of life.

For agenda and more information

please see:

www.nafems.org

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Personal Details

Title Family Name First Name

Organisation

Mailing Address

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Tel. No. Fax. No.

Email

NAFEMS World Congress 2005Delegate Registration Form

Conference Fees

Authors & NAFEMS/FENet Members €825

Non NAFEMS Member Delegates €900

Hotel Accommodation: Not included in the above fees, but can be booked on-line at www.nafems.org/events for a discounted rate

Exhibiting & Sponsorship Opportunities

My organisation is interested in supporting the event by taking exhibition space. Please contact me to discuss sponsorship or other opportunities for participation

Payment Details (please give P.O. number if you wish to be invoiced)

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Authorised Name

Card Number Expiry Date

Company P.O. Signature

Conference fees include

•• Attendance at the World Congress •• Morning Coffee •• Lunch •• Afternoon Tea

•• Conference Banquet •• Social Events •• One Set of Proceedings

Contact Name to whom all correspondence will be sent (BLOCK CAPITALS PLEASE)

Organiser Details:- NAFEMS Please complete and return to:- Anne Creechan

NAFEMS Ltd, Whitworth Building, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, East Kilbride, Glasgow, G75 0QD, UK 

T +44 (0) 1355 225688 F +44 (0) 1355 249142 E [email protected] W www.nafems.org