developments in the analysis of electric motor in-car integration for NVH, and the challenges for product development and driver perception of electric vehicle noise. Momentum with the electrification of vehicles is significantly shaping the product development process for vehicle OEMs. This year’s seminar directly looked at the electric motor as a source of noise and vibration. The SVPP Group will continue to focus on Seminar held at Coventry University in June the challenges for NVH as a result of vehicle electrification who helped build it in the past. In June, particularly in light of weight reduction John announced that he was stepping requirements and changes to down from the Chair of the SVPP, and also from Council and as a Director of suspension and tyre specifications. EIS. However, John has decided to join We will aim to provide opportunities the STMG Group (which he previously for engineers and students to enhance chaired many years ago), utilising his their understanding and insight of NVH challenges in the future through significant experience in that field. ongoing seminars and wider support The SVPP Group committee thank within the EIS. John for his hard work and enthusiasm Dave Fish (Chairman) over the years, leaving the group in very good shape, with an active core of members. We wish John all the best in the future in his time with the EIS, in his retirement and his sailing! John reported that “Dave Fish has agreed to step in as Chair and also as Council member, with Keith Vickers acting as deputy. I am sure that you will all support Dave and Keith in this new phase of the group.” I (Dave Fish), Keith, and the rest of the committee look forward to supporting the EIS through various initiatives over the coming years. In June, under John’s chairmanship, the SVPP Group held a very successful one day seminar at Coventry University, entitled “Electric Vehicle NVH: Not as quiet as you thought?”. This was very well-supported with attendees from academia, manufacturers, and specialist engineering companies. The day was a mix of technical papers, demonstrations and workshops looking at experimental methods for measuring noise and vibration, recent
Durability & Fatigue Group
After a large conference (Fatigue 2017) there is often a lull before new ideas turn into seminars. In the last few months members of the group continued to support the Young Engineers days and the panel discussions at the Silverstone exhibition. We now have 3 seminars in the pipeline. In September there is a joint seminar with FESI entitled “Engineering Integrity of Structures & Components Subjected to Degradation Mechanisms” which covers fatigue, creep and corrosion and is being hosted by Cranfield University. While the topics are common to the EIS membership
it is the first joint event with FESI who share our interests, but in very different industrial applications. It was inspired by our president Prof Rod Smith who is a member of both organisations. It should be an interesting day and a chance to share experience from a new perspective. In early October we have organised a specialised seminar “The Challenges of Structural Integrity at High Temperatures” at Phoenix Materials Testing, in Brierley Hill. The topics address issues surrounding test and measurement and will include a lab tour. This is a topic we’ve wanted to run for a while so the offer by Phoenix to host it was most welcome. Additive Manufacture is popular and we first addressed it in 2010 as the main topic. Then, as now, we recognise this as a new way of manufacturing which is accepted and in use, but inevitably not so well understood, hence the subtitle of “Do you really know what you’ve made?” If it is to be used in products in service (as opposed to prototype test and review) it needs to be fit for purpose. Materials performance and the influence of manufacturing processes need to be understood. We plan to run this early in 2019 at MTC Coventry, details will be published soon. Encouraged by feedback from 2017, we have also started planning our next big conference in Cambridge: Fatigue 2020. Robert Cawte Chairman
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