Planning is already underway for the 2009 Fall Technical Meeting, to be held September 13-15 in Indianapolis. The timing of next year’s FTM will present a unique opportunity as it will be held in conjunction with both the AGMA Gear Expo and ASM’s Heat Treating Society Conference and Exposition. Attendees from all over the world are anticipated. To get things rolling, papers for presentation are being solicited by AGMA.
Each year the Fall Technical Meeting provides an outstanding opportunity to share ideas with others on design, analysis, manufacturing and application of gears, gear drives and related products, as well as associated processes and procedures. Authors will have the opportunity to present the results of their work to an audience of knowledgeable professionals from the United States and abroad, and to participate in discussions with that audience. Papers should be original to the AGMA audience (not a previously published paper), technically accurate, relevant to the gear art, and free of commercialism.
A membership survey indicated that papers on such topics as the following would be of considerable interest: unique applications; dynamics; effects of flank modifications on load distribution; micropitting; manufacturing techniques; inspection and gear quality; metallurgy and its effect on gear rating; effect of surface finish on durability rating; noise/vibration; heat treatment and controlling distortion; wear and rating; lubrication; epicyclics (planetaries); powder metallurgy and plastics gearing; failure analysis; and FEM modeling.
You can participate by preparing a brief abstract of your paper (one page or less) and submitting it to ftm@agma.org by Dec. 15, 2008. Also visit [www.agma.org].
