The SAWE is proud to present our 9th Virtual Forum, a panel and audience participation venue to inform and debate important issues in mass properties engineering. This forum’s topic is Mass Properties Uncertainty Analysis, and our panelists are John Nakai from The Aerospace Corporation and Robert Zimmerman, Technical Director of the SAWE. The Forum will be via Google Meet and will run for an hour and a half commencing on Friday, January 27th at 12:00 EST (11:00 CST, 10:00 MST, 9:00 PST, 14:00 BRT, 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET).
The forum will start with differentiating mass growth from mass properties uncertainties, then it will delineate sources of mass properties uncertainties. The “meat” of the forum will concentrate on three inter-related uncertainty questions asked by working mass properties engineers: How do you determine uncertainty ranges? How do you characterize uncertainty? And how do you compute uncertainties? Next, because of various constraints, some uncertainties may be determined in a coordinate system that is not the project’s preferred coordinates, so a brief discussion with references to SAWE papers will point to how to treat rotated uncertainties. The formal presentation will conclude by summarizing uncertainty modeling techniques.
Questions may be raised during the presentation and following the presentation the floor will be open for general discussion.
Registration will be required and will open in early January.