Fundamental Mass Reduction/Light Weighting Techniques Webinar
I.D. # WB1129 Duration 2 Hours
With the rising price of fossil based energy, government mandates, and the need for conservation of material resources, the mobility industry faces an ever increasing need to reduce the weight of products. Weight or mass reduction implies reducing the quantity and volume of material used, usually manifesting itself in reduced cost and package-space requirements.

This two hour webinar is designed to help those concerned with the mass attributes of their product understand and clearly interpret the meaning and implication of their mass reduction challenge. Participants will learn how to identify and select appropriate tools and methods specific to their own field and needs and to effectively and efficiently accomplish their light weighting objective.
Learning Objectives
By connecting with this webinar, you will be able to:
  • Define relevant mass and energy related principals of physics
  • Describe engineering principals of geometry, stress, strength and material science as related to properties of mass, strength, stiffness, etc.
  • Summarize use ¿ environment, manufacturing process and economics related considerations
  • Choose tools to employ in early phases of product development and when and how to utilize advanced CAE-based tools
  • Identify available alternative material choices (metallic & non metallic) and how to select and apply them
  • Anticipate tools and technologies likely to be available in coming years
Who Should Attend
This webinar would be useful for designers, engineers, product developers, project managers and marketing specialists who are engineering, manufacturing, developing and marketing a product that must move to perform its function and, therefore, its mass and energy use are likely to be important. This is especially applicable to all kinds of vehicles such as cars, trucks, motorcycles, recreational, industrial and military vehicles, as well as to planes and ships. Webinar participants should have a basic mechanical or material science engineering background and some industrial experience working in product development.
Seminar Content
  • Mass Reduction ¿ Fundamental
    • Basic physics of mass and energy, environment
    • Basics of geometry, force, stress and strength, stiffness
    • Basic material characteristics
    • Interrelationships with manufacturing processes, quality and economics
    • Tools for use in early stages of product design/development
  • Considerations and Tools for Advanced Stages
    • Use of CAE tools
    • Interaction with use environment and manufacturing processes
    • Material options, selection, and application guidance
    • Overview of advanced CAE optimization methods
    • Caveats on limits of available tools and relevant inputs
    • Overview of future technologies
Instructor(s): Dinesh Seksaria
Dinesh SeksariaDinesh C. Seksaria, P.E., retired as Product Development Manager from Alcoa after 21 years and with a 42 year product engineering career. He continues to actively participate in his lifelong passion for product development as a consultant. His product engineering accomplishments include more than 40 patents and 30 publications. He has successfully solved problems of light weighting, stiffness, strength and durability in the development of a variety of vehicle related products using a variety of design tools and techniques. Dinesh has worked on structures for cars, trucks, lift trucks, cranes, excavators, farm machinery and military vehicles systems, as well as aircraft and missile systems. He brings a portfolio of knowledge and experience related to structural and material considerations in design and development of load bearing components of products utilizing a variety of materials. His expertise with application of light weight materials such as aluminum, magnesium, titanium and composites uniquely enables him to discuss the subject of this webinar. He is a licensed mechanical engineer and received a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Michigan.

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NOTE: The course presentation will be recorded and made available for 30 days to those who register by the deadline.
Fees: $255 SAE Members*: $204 - $230
* The appropriate SAE Member discount will be applied through the Registration process.  Discounts vary according to level of membership: Elite Member 20%; Premium Member 15%; Classic Member 10%
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