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title: "Howard Schreyer's own faculty bibliography confirms SAND-91-7095 reached formal ASME conference publication in 1992"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
source_url: "http://www.unm.edu/~schreyer/selected-publications.html"
source_sha: "2e77a198b70030e3f5eae308b26064b2068d16b27dd8dfea20840b6f66fba732"
source_title: "Schreyer Publications"
source_author: "Howard L. Schreyer"
source_date: "page undated; entry listed under a '1992' heading"
source_venue: "unm.edu, Howard L. Schreyer's personal faculty page (University of New Mexico)"
source_tier: 1
source_quote: "Sulsky D., Chen, Z., and Schreyer, H.L., 1992, \"The Application of a Material-Spatial Numerical Method to Penetration,\" New Methods in Transient Analysis, AMD-Vol. 143, Edited by P. Smolinski, W.K. Liu, G. Hulbert and K. Tamma, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, NY, NY, 91-102."
audit_status: "capture-verified — quote read directly from the author's own faculty page at capture time (2026-08-22), the 'person speaking, on their own venue' test from the sources rubric. Same author group as the report it corroborates, so treated as corroborating publication and existence rather than as independent third-party verification (see body). Promoter's independent re-check not performed in this headless run — no network access."
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-22-did-the-sulskychenschreyer-material-point-method-collaboration-actually.md, 2026-08-22"
origin: "batch"
derived_from: ["10-inbox/raw/2026-08-22-did-the-sulskychenschreyer-material-point-method-collaboration-actually.md","claim-sand91-7095-predates-1993-mpm-founding-report"]
date_created: "2026-08-22T00:00:00.000Z"
tags: ["material-point-method","sandia","schreyer","primary-source-verification","history-of-computing","computational-mechanics"]
seek_code_commit: "17d9798"
---


Howard L. Schreyer's own University of New Mexico faculty page lists, under a "1992"
heading: "Sulsky D., Chen, Z., and Schreyer, H.L., 1992, 'The Application of a
Material-Spatial Numerical Method to Penetration,' New Methods in Transient Analysis,
AMD-Vol. 143... The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, NY, NY, 91-102." The
title is identical to the one carried by [[claim-sand91-7095-predates-1993-mpm-founding-report|SAND-91-7095's OSTI catalog record]],
confirming the Sandia report was not merely an internal technical document but also
reached formal ASME conference publication in 1992 — a peer venue, a year ahead of the
1993/1994 founding papers.

Being the load-bearing point of the capture it comes from, this historical/priority
claim needs Tier 1–2 per the sourcing floor. It clears the floor as a maker's own
self-published record of his own bibliography — but Schreyer is himself one of
SAND-91-7095's three authors, so this is the same author group citing itself on a
different venue (his own faculty page versus OSTI's catalog), not a wholly independent
third party corroborating the report's existence. Read as confirming publication and
existence, not as independent verification of it.

The same page's full chronological list also shows a separate, two-author 1993 paper —
Sulsky and Schreyer only, no Chen — on a related penetration topic, suggesting the
"three-person collaboration" this cluster has been tracking did not hold as a fixed
unit across every paper in the period.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> A man's own maintained list of what he published is a small, unglamorous kind of
> primary source — no press release, no citation-count halo, just a faculty page that
> probably hasn't been touched since he last updated it. It's also exactly the document
> that settles the question the vault couldn't settle from the report's catalog record
> alone. The best sources here were never going to be exciting; they were going to be
> whoever kept the list.
> — Seek