Motorsports Engineering Conference & Exposition Technical Session Schedule As of 12/11/2006 07:40 pm Tuesday, December 5 Opening Remarks Session Code: MSEC31 Room Hubbard Session Time: 8:00 a.m. Tuesday, December 5 Keynote Address Session Code: MSEC24 Room Hubbard Session Time: 8:15 a.m. Presenters - Professor E. S. Watkins, President, FIA Institute for Motor Sport Safety Tuesday, December 5 Business Panel - Partnering for Progress Session Code: MSEC10 Room Hubbard Session Time: 9:30 a.m. Partnering for Progress, the event¿s theme, will drive this panel¿s discussion highlighting the value of partnering and its challenges, what makes for a successful partnership, and opportunities for the future. Organizers - Dan Rivard Moderators - Neil W. Ressler Panelists - Eberhard Haberkern, Robert Bosch GmbH; John Heinricy, General Motors Corp.; Edward Linsenmeyer, Naval Surface Warfare Center; Bobby Rahal, Rahal/Letterman Racing; Dean L. Sicking, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln; Paul F. Skalny, US Army Tank Auto & Armaments Command; Peter G. Wright, Federation Internationale de L'Automobil Tuesday, December 5 Historical Session - Motorsports in the Fifties: Tragedy and Response Session Code: MSEC9 Room Marquis Session Time: 6:00 p.m. Organizers - Kenneth Berg; William F. Milliken, Milliken Research Associates Inc.; Dennis J. Simanaitis, Road & Track Magazine Moderators - Dennis J. Simanaitis, Road & Track Magazine Panelists - Jack Carney, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla; Timothy Considine, Automotive Journalist; Joshua Davidson, Bentley Publishing; John C. Fitch, Impact Attenuation Inc.; Peter G. Wright, Federation Internationale de L'Automobil Tuesday, December 5 Tires Session Code: MSEC20 2:00 p.m. Room Regency A-D Session Time: Organizers - David A. Finch, Raetech Corp. Time Paper No. Title 2:00 p.m. ORAL ONLY Tire Data for Radio Control Model Cars Douglas L. Milliken, Milliken Research Associates Inc.; Todd Wasson, Performance Simulations 2:30 p.m. 2006-01-3605 Indirect Measurement of Tire Slip and Understeer/Oversteer Gerardo Gomez, Liquid Spring LLC; John M. Starkey, Purdue Univ. 3:00 p.m. 2006-01-3606 The Formula SAE® Tire Testing Consortium - Tire Testing and Data Handling Edward M. Kasprzak, Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY; David Gentz, Calspan Corp. 3:30 p.m. 2006-01-3607 Inflation Pressure Effects in the Nondimensional Tire Model Edward M. Kasprzak, Kemper E. Lewis, Univ. of Buffalo; Douglas L. Milliken, Milliken Research Associates Inc. Tuesday, December 5 Motorsports Partnerships, Management and Education Session Code: MSEC4 Room Regency E-F Session Time: 2:00 p.m. Organizers - Thomas J. Timbario, Alliance Technical Services Time Paper No. Title 2:00 p.m. 2006-01-3608 Rapid Management of Complex Projects for Smaller Companies John K. Stowe, Anhared Design 2:30 p.m. 2006-01-3609 Engineering the Motorsport Engineer Donald W. Radford, Patrick Fitzhorn, Rudolf H. Stanglmaier, Hiroshi Sakurai, Colorado State Univ. 3:00 p.m. 2006-01-3611 Collaborative Partnership Opportunities in Military Ground Vehicle Technologies Douglas Robert Miller, James E. Bechtel, US Army National Automotive Center 3:30 p.m. 2006-01-3610 Motorsports Industry Knowledge Exchange (MiKE), Oxymoron or Holy Grail (An Imperative for Sustaining Regional, National and Global Competitiveness) Mike Meechan, MKE Tuesday, December 5 Vehicle and Track Design for Safety Session Code: MSEC13 Room Regency J-K Session Time: 2:00 p.m. Organizers - J. Kirk Russell; Peter G. Wright, Federation Internationale de L'Automobil Time Paper No. Title 2:00 p.m. 2006-01-3614 Driver Safety - What Racing Sanctioning Bodies Write in Their Rulebooks Thomas W. Gideon, GM Racing 2:30 p.m. 2006-01-3615 Tailoring the Energy Absorption Profile of a Carbon Fiber Impact Attenuator Allyson Antonio, Peter Nivala, Donald W. Radford, Colorado State Univ. 3:00 p.m. 2006-01-3624 Evolution of Top Fuel Dragster Design and Safety ORAL ONLY Arnold S. Kuhns, SFI Foundation; Murf Mc Kinney, McKinney Corp. 3:30 p.m. ORAL ONLY Debris Fence Evaluation by Modelling and Full-Scale Testing Andrew Mellor, Federation Internationale de L'Automobil 4:00 p.m. 2006-01-3612 Development and Testing of the SAFER Barrier - Version 2, SAFER Barrier Gate, and Alternative Backup Structure Ronald K. Faller, Robert W. Bielenberg, Dean L. Sicking, John R. Rohde, John D. Reid, Midwest Roadside Safety Facility, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln 4:30 p.m. ORAL ONLY Development of a Barrier for Perpendicular High Speed Impact Hubert Gramling, FIA Inst. for Motor Sport Safety; Peter G. Wright, Federation Internationale de L'Automobil Wednesday, December 6 Driver Safety and Biomechanics - Part 1 Session Code: MSEC2 Room Regency A-D Session Time: 2:00 p.m. Organizers - J. Kirk Russell; Peter G. Wright, Federation Internationale de L'Automobil Time Paper No. Title 2:00 p.m. 2006-01-3629 HANS® Device - Performance Leader to Market Leader Mark Stiles, Hubbard Downing Inc. 2:30 p.m. 2006-01-3631 Comparative Performance of Racing Head and Neck Restraints Gregg S. Baker, GTP 3:00 p.m. 2006-01-3655 Structural Reinventing of the HANS® Head and Neck Support ORAL ONLY Ronald C. Averill, Red Cedar Technology Inc. 3:30 p.m. 2006-01-3628 Computer Modeling Study of HANS Head and Neck Support Sled Test Performance ORAL ONLY Paul C. Begeman, Wayne State Univ. 4:00 p.m. ORAL ONLY Determination of the Pressure Distribution Beneath Two- and Three- Inch Wide Racing Safety Belts John W. Melvin, Tandelta 4:30 p.m. 2006-01-3632 Studying Friction for HANS® Device Function Alan Wilcox, HANS Performance Products Wednesday, December 6 Safety Panel - The Safety Partnership - Engineering and Medicine Session Code: MSEC6 Room Hubbard Session Time: 8:00 a.m. Injuries in motor sport occur when a crashing vehicle exerts forces, accelerations, and displacements on the humans involved that exceed their injury tolerances. It is by understanding how the engineered structures of the vehicle and its surroundings generate those forces, accelerations, and displacements, how the human is subjected to them, and how the human body reacts as a consequence, that progress is made in reducing injuries. Motor sport provides a unique field for research into injury causation that will have benefits beyond the sport. Organizers - J. Kirk Russell; Peter G. Wright, Federation Internationale de L'Automobil Moderators - Peter G. Wright, Federation Internationale de L'Automobil Panelists - Hubert Gramling, FIA Inst. for Motorsport Safey; Andrew Mellor, Federation Internationale de L'Automobil; John W. Melvin, Tandelta; Stephen E. Olvey, FIA Inst./Grand Prix Masters; Steve Peterson, NASCAR; Terry R. Trammell, Orthopaedics Indianapolis Wednesday, December 6 Engine Panel - Partnering in Alternate Fuels Session Code: MSEC5 Room Marquis Session Time: 8:00 a.m. This panel will be looking at avenues to create equivalency for alternate fuels to gasoline. A comparison of methanol to its cousin - ethanol, answering the questions `What are the differences?', and `What does the change (in IRL) mean to the engine level engineer?' Also included will be a discussion on how diesel fuel characteristics are handled at the development level and what the particular issues are of dealing with diesel as a motorsport fuel. Organizers - Geoffrey Goddard, Geoff Goddard Engines, Ltd.; Wiley R. McCoy, McLaren Performance Technologies; Michael J. Royce, Albion Associates LLC Panelists - Brett Boyer, PerkinElmer; Andrew Heard, Xtrac; Jeff H. Horton, Indy Racing League; Richard Karlstetter, Shell Global Solutions; Dan Schwartzkopf, Renova Energy; Graham B. Weller, Ricardo Inc. Wednesday, December 6 Race Car Design: Partnering for Progress Session Code: MSEC21 Room Product Showcase Theater Session Time: 12:30 p.m. This session will discuss the process taken by major sanctioning bodies and their partners, to develop their cars that will race into the future. This will take into consideration all the elements of race car design and construction, including safety, engineering, cost, marketing and control of specifications. Organizers - Dan Rivard Moderators - Dan Rivard Panelists - Scot Elkins, Champ Car World Series; Les Mactaggart; Robin Pemberton, NASCAR; Peter G. Wright, Federation Internationale de L'Automobil Wednesday, December 6 Suspension and Vehicle Dynamics Session Code: MSEC3 Room Regency A-D Session Time: 10:30 a.m. The joining of contract engineering services, specialized product suppliers and race team services for a winning effort. Organizers - David A. Finch, Raetech Corp. Time Paper No. Title 10:30 a.m. 2006-01-3616 Static Compliance Measurement as a Method of Assessing Damage Blake L. Holloway, Donald W. Radford, Lucas R. Weidner, Colorado State Univ. 11:00 a.m. 2006-01-3617 Force-Based Roll Centers and an Enhanced Kinematic Roll Center William C. Mitchell, William C Mitchell Software 11:30 a.m. 2006-01-3618 As-Assembled Suspension Geometry Measurement using Photogrammetry Andre Powell, Joseph Henry, Patrick Fitzhorn, Colorado State Univ. 12:00 p.m. 2006-01-3619 Vehicle Stability in Drift Maneuvers (Written Only -- No Oral Presentation) Mujahid Abdulrahim, University of Florida Wednesday, December 6 Extreme Motorsports: Motocross Engineering and Technology Session Code: MSEC29 Room Regency E-F Session Time: 10:30 a.m. The extreme sport of motocross racing offers motorcycle manufacturers, suppliers, aftermarket companies, engineers, racing organizations and corporate sponsors unique technical challenges and business opportunities to test their skills and increase their brand awareness. Over the past five years many of the engineering