The 2026 NAFEMS Americas Conference will feature a dedicated programme of Training & Workshops, giving simulation engineers the chance to sharpen their skills, explore new methods, and gain practical, hands-on insights from industry experts.
Details about the offered trainings will be announced soon – stay tuned for updates on the specialised sessions designed to help you get the most from your simulation tools and approaches.
Modern solid mechanics FE codes have built-in, advanced material models that can capture the complex behavior of polymers, including rate-dependent yield, plasticity, creep, stress-relaxation, and anisotropy. Designing your part without taking these into account can lead to extra iterations in the design cycle, field failures, or overdesign, resulting in greater financial manufacturing costs. Using advanced, modern test methods can enable simulation and test engineers to capture all these complex material effects, but measuring the mechanical behavior is the first step. Using your data to select and calibrate a material model will enable engineers to predict potential failures earlier in the design. In this shortened version of the NAFEMS course, I will introduce advanced polymer test methods and material models that can be used to simulate the time-dependent response of all classes of polymers - elastomers, thermoplastics and thermosets, composites, TPE/TPU/TPVs, and biomaterials.
Dr. Sean Teller is a Partner at Veryst Engineering. Dr. Teller has extensive experience in mechanical engineering, with specific focus in the mechanical behavior of materials at low and high strain rates, including viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity, nonlinear materials, and fracture mechanics. His work has spanned many disciplines, including polymer characterization and failure analysis, tissue engineering, biomaterials, equipment design, aerospace applications, and semiconductor manufacturing. His interests include designing, performing, and interpreting experimental data to characterize materials and industrial processes over wide ranges of conditions to accurately understand their operation, performance, and failure. His experience includes polymer characterization, experimental methods, building and designing equipment and test fixtures, stress simulations, analyzing equipment performance, machine design and performance, failure analysis, hydrogels, animal dissections, sample preservation, clean room use, and composite materials. EDUCATION Ph.D., Engineering: Solid Mechanics, Brown University, 2012
M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University, 2007
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Syracuse University, 2006
Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma
We are very pleased to announce that Tony Abbey will be at the Conference in person. Tony Abbey has created and taught a wealth of FEA training material over the past 20 years. Thousands of engineers across the world have benefited from his live and e-learning based classes. He has developed a reputation for providing the student with an experience that is full of insight gained from his extensive experience, but which also challenges and motivates.Tony has been working with FEA for nearly 40 years, both in Industry and for leading FEA software providers in the UK and the US.
His informal and interactive presentation style allows the key concepts to be taught in a manner which involves participants fully in the course material. Tony presents papers at NAFEMS and other conferences on a regular basis and has been involved with NAFEMS since its formation. He has written a series of very popular articles on FEA for Desktop Engineering magazine.
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