Companion Guide to the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code Volume 1

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Companion Guide to theASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code

Criteria and Commentary on Select Aspects of theBoiler & Pressure Vessel and Piping CodesFourth Edition

VOLUME 1

EDITORK. R. RAO

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Companion guide to the ASME boiler & pressure vessel and piping codes : criteria and commentary on select aspects of the

Boiler & pressure vessel and piping codes / editor, K.R. Rao. 4th ed.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN 978-0-7918-5986-5 (alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-7918-598 - (alk. paper)

1. Steam-boilersStandards. 2. Pressure vesselsStandards. I. Rao, K. R., 1933 II. American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

III. ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Committee. ASME boiler and pressure vessel code.

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Volume 1: Ninemile Point; Volume 2: Waterford Nuclear Plant

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THIS MONUMENTAL EFFORT IS DEDICATED TO THEASME PRESSURE VESSELS AND PIPING DIVISION ANDTO TWO SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTORS TO THE DEVEL-OPMENT OF THE DESIGN-BY-ANALYSIS CONSTRUCTIONRULES IN THE MODERN ASME CODE.

This two-volume compendium dedication is not the first recog-nition of the achievements of Bernard F. Langer and William E.Cooper. The Bernard F. Langer Nuclear Codes and StandardsAward, established in 1977, provides a posthumous and lastingtribute to one of these contributors, an intellectual giant who wasinstrumental in providing the leadership and statesmanship thatwas essential to the creation of construction rules for nuclear ves-sels and related equipment. William E. Cooper, the first recipientof the Bernard F. Langer Nuclear Codes and Standards Award, isanother intellectual giant instrumental in the creation of the mod-ern ASME Code. In addition, Dr. Cooper acted in a number ofASME Codes and Standards leadership positions. It was my plea-sure to join many of my colleagues in April 2001 for the presenta-tion to Dr. Cooper of the ASME President's Award from the 120thPresident of ASME International, William A. Weiblen. That mostprestigious award recognized a lifetime of achievement in ASMEand, in particular, in ASME Code activities.

Bernie Langer and Bill Cooper were essential in both the devel-opment of the modern ASME Code and in the creation of the

forums for technical information exchange that support the Coderules. The publication of these two volumes by ASME Interna-tional is a legacy of that duality. These volumes continue a longand productive relationship between the development of the mod-ern ASME Code and the technical exchanges on pressure vesseland piping technology sponsored by the ASME Pressure Vesselsand Piping Technical Division. This process of technical informa-tion exchange, through conference paper and panel presentations,and through refereed paper publication, is an essential step in thereduction to standard practice, standard practice that is eventuallyembodied in the rules of the ASME Code. Information exchangeat technical conferences and in technical publications goes handin hand with the deliberations of ASME Code bodies.

This relationship goes back to the pivotal events leading up to

the development of the modern ASME Code the appointmentof the Special Committee to Review Code Stress Basis in the late1950s. The principles formulated by that group became the basisfor Section III and Section VIII, Division 2 (design by analysis)of the Code. These basic principles were published by ASME in1968 under the title Criteria of the ASME Boiler and PressureVessel Code for Design by Analysis in Sections III and VIII,Division 2. At the same time that the work of the SpecialCommittee to Review Code Stress Basis was nearing fruition,leaders in the field of pressure vessel design, including BernieLanger and Bill Cooper, recognized that an improved forum forfundamental technical information exchange was needed. The

need eventually led to the formation of an ASME technical divi-sion, the Pressure Vessel and Piping (PVP) Division, in 1966.

Many of us who became involved in the PVP Division in theearly years were drafted by the leaders in the field to help pre-pare a compendium of the technical information on pressure ves-sel and piping technology. The Decade of Progress volumes, asthey were known then, were published by ASME in the early1970s, covering the most significant contributions to pressurevessel and piping design and analysis; materials and fabrication;and operations, applications, and components. The Decade ofProgress volumes should be considered the antecedents of thesetwo volumes. Both sets of volumes should be considered as inte-gral parts of the technical literature supporting the Code and theCriteria document.

The PVP Division has acted with great vigor over the years tocontinue to provide the technical forums needed to supportimprovements in the modern ASME Code. This year marks theDivision's 35th anniversary. When I first became involved in PVPDivision activities, the second year had just been completed, withVito Salerno as the second Chair of the Division Executive Com-mittee. Dana Young had been the first Chair, during 19661967,and Gunther Eschenbrenner was ready to become the third Chair,for the 19681969 year. Planning was well underway for the firstInternational Conference on Pressure Vessel Technology

(ICPVT), scheduled for Delft, the Netherlands, in the followingyear. The plan was to hold such an international conference everyfour years, with the Secretariat rotating between Europe (1969),the United States (San Antonio, 1973), and Asia (Tokyo, 1977).Nine of these international conferences have now been held, themost recent in Sydney, Australia, in April 2000.

At the same time, initial planning for the First U.S. NationalCongress on Pressure Vessels and Piping, to be held every fouryears in the United States, was also underway. It was my privilegeto be the Technical Program Chair for the Second U.S. NationalCongress on PVP in 1975 in San Francisco, and the ConferenceChair for the Third U.S. National Congress on PVP in 1979, alsoin San Francisco. In addition, the activity within the PVP Divi-sion was such that we cosponsored ASME technical conferences

with the Materials Division, the Nuclear Engineering Division,and the Petroleum Division in alternate years. This has since ledto the annual PVP Conference, the most recent being PVP 2001in Atlanta, Georgia, in July 2001.

The paper flow from the technical conferences and the networkof contributors for the Decade of Progress volumes eventually ledto the creation of the ASME Transactions Journal of PressureVessel Technology in late 1973, only seven years after formationof the Pressure Vessel and Piping Technical Division. Dr. IrwinBerman was its first Senior Technical Editor, with two TechnicalEditors representing the PVP Division and the Petroleum Divi-sion. Once again, I consider it a privilege to have been selected as

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the Technical Editor for the PVP Division, later becoming theSenior Technical Editor in 1978. The Journal and the technicalconferences have provided robust mechanisms for the neededtechnical information exchange.

But ASME Code rules and the associated technical informationexchange is not enough. In one of the very early issues (Novem-ber 1974) of the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, two arti-

cles were published on the duty and responsibility of engineersand their engineering societies to address public concerns aboutthe safety and reliability of power plants. One, by Bernie Langer,was titled The Role of the Engineering Societies in ObtainingPublic Acceptance of Power Plants. The other, by Bill Cooper,was titled Nuclear Pressure Vessels and Piping Materials:

Where to Next. Both articles clearly identified the additionalcommitment that we all share to bring sound information to theattention of the general public and to policymakers in federal,state, and local jurisdictions. In the almost three decades since thepublication of those two articles, this commitment has beenextended, as the reach of ASME International, the ASME Boilerand Pressure Vessel Code, and the PVP Division covers the entire

world. We owe a debt of gratitude to these two giants, and thesetwo volumes represent a down payment on that debt.

Robert E. Nickell, Ph.D. William E. Cooper, Ph.D, P.E.19992000 President



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The editor is indebted to several individuals and organiza-tions in the preparation of this two-volume book. Some of themare identified for their assistance in completion of this effort.My thanks are to all of the thirty-nine contributors whose dedi-cated efforts made this possible by their singular attention todetail, even while they succinctly conveyed the voluminousinformation.

I wish to thank Dr. Jack Ware, Pressure Vessels and PipingDivision who suggested this effort. My thanks are in particular toMartin D. Bernstein who had from the start of this project beenmy inspiration to rally around during several ups and downs. Ialso thank Dr. Robert E. Nickell for his encouragement to see theend of the tunnel.

This effort would not have been possible but for the encourage-ment and support provided by my employer, Entergy OperationsInc., and in particular by Frederick W. Titus, William R.Campbell, John R. Hamilton, Willis F. Mashburn, Raymond

S. Lewis, Jaishanker S. Brihmadesam, Brian C. Gray, and PaulH. Nehrenz.

My special thanks to Professor Dr. Robert T. Norman,University of Pittsburgh, for the untiring pains he had taken intraining me to undertake efforts such as these from their veryinitiation to their logical conclusion.

This unique two-volume publication, which Dr. FrederickMoody aptly called a "monumental effort," would have nevertaken off had it not been for the vision and sustained support pro-vided by the staff of ASME Technical Publishing. My thanks tothem for their support.

Finally, all of this saga-type effort, spread over three years, wouldhave never been possible had it not been for the constant encourage-ment and untiring support provided by my wife, Dr. Indira Rao, thatincluded all of the sundry chores associated with this project. Inaddition, I wish to thank other members of my family, Uma andSunder Sashti, and Dr. Ishu V. Rao, for their zealous support.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE FIRSTEDITION

This second edition following the success of the first editionhas an enlarged scope including the addition of a third volume.This warranted the addition of several contributors who are allexperts in their respective specialties. The editor appreciates theircontributions, as well as the continued support of the contributorsfrom the first edition.

Editor intends to once again thank Entergy Operations for theircontinued support. Thanks are especially due to Dr. Indira Raowhose support in several capacities made this voluminous effortpossible. My thanks are to the staff of ASME publishing for theircontinued zeal and support.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE SECOND

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This third edition follows the unprecedented success of the pre-vious two editions.

As mentioned in the first edition, this effort was initiated withthe end user in mind. Several individuals and a few organiza-tions had provided support ever since this effort started.

In the second edition the success of the first edition was

enlarged in scope with the addition of a third volume, withexperts in their respective specialties to contribute chapters theyauthored.

In response to the changing priorities of Boiler and PressureVessel (B&PV) industry and global use of ASME B&PV Codesand Standards the scope and extent of this edition has increased.The result of the current effort is in a 2,550 page book spread inthree volumes.

The editor pays homage to the authors Yasuhide Asada, MartinD. Bernstein, Toshiki Karasawa, Douglas B. Nickerson andRobert F. Sammataro who passed away and whose expertiseenriched the chapters they authored in the previous editions.

This comprehensive Companion Guide with multiple editionsspanning over several years has several authors contributing to thiseffort. The editor thanks authors who had contributed to the previ-ous editions but did not participate in the current edition and theyare Tom Ahl, Domenic A. Canonico, Arthur E. Deardorff, Guy H.Deboo, Jeffrey A. Gorman, Harold C. Graber, John Hechmer,Stephen Hunt, Yoshinori Kajimura, Pao-Tsin Kuo, M. A. Malek,Robert J. Masterson, Urey R. Miller, Kamran Mokhtarian, DennisRahoi, Frederick A. Simonen, John D. Stevenson, Stephen V.Voorhees, John I. Woodworth and Lloyd W. Yoder.

The editor appreciates the effort of the continuing contributorsfrom the previous editions, who had a remarkable influence onshaping this mammoth effort, few of them from the very begin-ning to this stage. The editor gratefully acknowledges the follow-ing authors Kenneth Balkey, Warren Bamford, Uma

Bandyopadhyay, Jon E. Batey, Charles Becht IV (Chuck), SidneyA. Bernsen, Alain Bonnefoy, Marcus N. Bressler, Marvin L.Carpenter, Edmund W. K. Chang, Kenneth C. Chang, PeterConlisk, Joel G. Feldstein, Richard E. Gimple, Jean-MarieGrandemange, Timothy J. Greisbach, Ronald S. Hafner, GeoffreyM. Halley, Peter J. Hanmore, Owen F. Hedden, Greg L.Hollinger, Robert I. Jetter, Guido G. Karcher, William J. Koves,John T. Land, Donald F. Landers, Hardayal S. Mehta, Richard A.Moen, Frederick J. Moody, Alan Murray, David N. Nash, W. J.ODonnell, David E. Olson, Frances Osweiller, Thomas P. Pastor,Gerard Perraudin, Bernard Pitrou, Mahendra D. Rana, Douglas K.

Rodgers, Sampath Ranganath, Roger F. Reedy, Wolf Reinhardt,Peter C. Riccardella, Everett C. Rodabaugh, Robert J. Sims Jr.,James E. Staffiera, Stanley Staniszewski, Richard W. Swayne(Rick), Anibal L.Taboas, Elmar Upitis and Nicholas C. Van DenBrekel.

Similarly the editor thanks the contribution of authors who

joined this effort in this third edition. Sincerity and dedication ofthe authors who joined in this effort is evident from two instances in one case, a contributor hastened to complete his manuscriptbefore going for his appointment for heart surgery! In another

case, when I missed repeatedly a correction made by a contribu-

tor, he never failed to draw my attention to the corrections that I

missed!

Thus, the editor wishes to appreciate efforts of authors who joinedin this edition and worked zealously to contribute their best for thecompletion of this saga. The authors are Joseph F. Artuso, HansrajG.Ashar, Peter Pal Babics, Paul Brinkhurst, Neil Broom, Robert G.Brown, Milan Brumovsky, Anne Chaudouet, Shin Chang, Yi-BinChen, Ting Chow, Howard H. Chung, Russell C. Cipolla, CarlosCueto-Felgueroso, K. B. Dixit, Malcolm Europa, John Fletcher, LucH. Geraets, Stephen Gosselin (Steve), Donald S. Griffin, KunioHasegawa, Philip A. Henry, Ralph S. Hill III, Kaihwa Robert Hsu,D. P. Jones, Toshio Isomura, Jong Chull Jo, Masahiko Kaneda,Dieter Kreckel, Victor V. Kostarev, H. S. Kushwaha, Donald WayneLewis, John R. Mac Kay, Rafael G. Mora, Dana Keith Morton,Edwin A. Nordstrom, Dave A. Osage, Daniel Pappone, MartyParece, Michael A. Porter, Clay D. Rodery, Wesley C. Rowley,Barry Scott, Kaisa Simola, K. P. Singh (Kris), Alexander VSudakov, Peter Trampus, K. K. Vaze, Reino Virolainen, Raymond(Ray) A. West, Glenn A. White, Tony Williams.

The editor thanks Steve Brown of Entergy Operations for hishelp in the search for expert contributors for this edition.

This edition was initiated by me in August 2006 and has taken

over 3000 hours of computer connection time. My thanks areespecially to my wife, Dr. Indira Rao whose sustained support forthis effort and participation in several chores related to editing. Inaddition, I appreciate her tolerating my working on it during a4-month overseas vacation.

The editor thanks the staff of ASME Technical Publications fortheir unstinted zeal and support in aiming at this publicationstarget of zero tolerance for errors and omissions.

Finally, the editor thanks all of you, readers and users ofthis Companion Guide and hopes it serves the purpose of thispublication.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE THIRDEDITION



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This fourth edition follows the unprecedented success of theprevious three editions.

As mentioned in the first edition, this effort was initiated withthe end user in mind. Hundreds of individuals and several orga-nizations had provided support ever since this effort started.

The success of the first two editions prompted us to enlarge the

scope with the addition of a third volume, with experts in the USand around the world to contribute the chapters. In response to thechanging priorities of Boiler and Pressure Vessel (B&PV) indus-try and global use of ASME B&PV Codes and Standards thescope and extent of the third edition had vastly increased resultingin a mammoth 2,550 page book spread in three volumes.

The editor in the acknowledgements to the third edition paidhomage to the authors Yasuhide Asada, Martin D. Bernstein,Toshiki Karasawa, Douglas B. Nickerson and Robert F.Sammataro who passed away since the first edition and whoseexpertise enriched the chapters they authored. Since then it is withprofound regret editor notes the passing away of Marcus N.Bressler and Peter J. Conlisk who were not merely contributors tothis monumental effort but were in several ways the stan-chions of not only the chapters they authored but ardent advi-sors from the onset of this effort to the time of their passing away.

This comprehensive Companion Guide spanning over severalyears had several authors contributing to this effort. The editorthanks authors who had contributed to the previous editions butdid not participate in the current edition and they are Edmund W.K. Chang, Geoffrey M. Halley, Greg L. Hollinger, Donald F.Landers, John T. Land, Hansraj Ashar, Barry Scott, Chuck BechtIV, Guido G. Karcher and Richard E. Gimple. Most of thesecontributors had been associated with this effort from the verybeginning and to them the editor salutes them for their signal con-tribution, direction and continued support.

The editor appreciates the effort of the continuing contributors

from the previous editions, who had a remarkable influence onshaping this mammoth effort, few of them from the very begin-ning to this stage. The editor gratefully acknowledges the follow-

ing authors John R. MacKay, Elmar Upitis, Richard A. Moen,Marvin L. Carpenter, Roger F. Reedy, Richard W. Swayne (Rick),David P. Jones, Uma S. Bandyopadhyay, Robert I. Jetter, JosephF. Artuso, Dana Keith Morton, Donald Wayne Lewis, Edwin A.Nordstrom, Jon E. Batey, Thomas P. Pastor, Dave A. Osage, ClayD. Rodery, Robert G. Brown, Philip A. Henry, Robert J. Sims Jr.,

Joel G. Feldstein, Owen F. Hedden, Russell C. Cipolla, James E.Staffiera, Warren Bamford, Hardayal S. Mehta, Mahendra D.Rana and Stanley Staniszewski.

Similarly the editor appreciates contribution of authors whojoined this effort in the current edition and worked zealously to con-tribute their best for the completion of this saga. The authors areJames T. Pillow, John F. Grubb, Richard C. Sutherlin, Jeffrey F.Henry, C.W. Rowley, Anne Chaudouet, Wesley C. Rowley, C.Basavaraju, Jack R. Cole, Richard O. Vollmer, Robert E. CornmanJr., Guy A. Jolly, Clayton T. Smith, Arthur Curt Eberhardt, MichaelF. Hessheimer, Ola Jovall, James C. Sowinski, Bernard F. Shelley,Jimmy E. Meyer, Joseph W. Frey, Michael J. Rosenfeld and LouisE. Hayden Jr.

The editor thanks Jimmy E. Meyer for his help in the search fortopics and expert contributors for several B31 Piping Chapters forthis edition.

This edition was initiated by me in May 2011 and has takenjust over a year for completing this edition.

My thanks, as has been since I embarked on the first editionover a decade back, are especially to my wife, Dr. Indira Raowhose sustained support for this effort and participation in severalchores related to editing of this edition. In addition, I appreciateher tolerating my working on it during several vacations.

The editor thanks the staff of ASME Technical Publications fortheir continued patience, undivided support and focused effort inaiming once again at this publications target of zero tolerancefor errors and omissions.

Finally, the editor thanks all of you, readers and users of thisCompanion Guide and hopes it serves the purpose of thispublication.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE FOURTHEDITION



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AHL, THOMAS J.

Thomas J. Ahl earned a B.S.C.E. in 1960and M.S.C.E. in 1961 from University ofWisconsin. He is a Registered Structuraland Professional Engineer in Illinois. Heheld the position of Principal Engineer inNuclear & Pressure Vessel Design De-partment, Chicago Bridge & Iron Co.,

Plainfield, IL, (19611998), and wasengaged in design and analysis of nuclear

related vessels and structural components. Ahl was a Member ofANSI Working Group ANS-56.8 that prepared the ANSI/ANS-56.8-1981Containment System Leakage Testing Requirementsstandard.

Ahl is a Member of ASCE, Member of ASCE HydropowerDevelopment Committee, and Conventional Hydropower Sub-committee. He served as Co-Chair of the Task Committeepreparing the publication Manual of Practice for SteelPenstocks ASCE Manual No. 79, Vice-Chair-ASCE Committeepreparing the Guidelines for Evaluating Aging Penstocks, andmember of ASCE Hydropower Committee preparing CivilEngineering Guidelines for Planning and Design of Hydroelectric

Developments.Two of these publications received the ASCE Rickey Award

Medal in 1990 and 1994. Thomas Ahl is a member of the PeerReview Group to Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Structural Engineering Branch for the SafetyMargins for Containments Research Program, 19802001.

ARTUSO, JOSEPH F.

Joseph F. Artuso is the CEO of Construc-tion Engineering Consultants, Inc. He hasover 40 years experience in developingand managing quality control inspection

and testing programs for constructionmaterials. He is also actively involved inthe Code and Standards writing bodies ofACI and ASME. Mr. Artuso earned a B.S.in Civil Engineering at Carnegie Institute

of Technology in 1948 and became a Level III InspectionEngineer at the National Council of Engineering Examiners in1975. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the states ofPennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Florida, Maryland and WestVirginia, as well as being registered as Quality Control Engineerin state of California. His memberships in national committeesinclude A.S.C.E. (Task committee on Inspection Agencies),A.C.I (Committees 214, 304 and 311), A.N.S.I (N-45-3.5

Structural Concrete and Steel), A.S.M.E. (Committee 359(ASME Sec. III, Div. 2) Construction Materials and Exam.),ACI-ASME (Committee on Concrete Pressure Components forNuclear Service), ASTM, and NRMCA. He was a contributingeditor of McGraw-Hill Concrete Construction Handbook. Mr.Artuso was the Director of Site Quality Control for theDuquesne Light Company, Beaver Valley, Unit 2. He also super-vised construction quality control activities on many nuclearpower plants during the period of high construction activity

from the 1970s to 1980s.

ASHAR, HANSRAJ, G.

Mr. Ashar has a Master of Science degreein Civil Engineering from the University ofMichigan. He has been working with theNuclear Regulatory Commission for thelast 35 years as a Sr. Structural Engineer.Prior to that Mr. Ashar has worked with anumber of consultants in the U.S. andGermany designing Bridges and Buildings.Mr. Ashar has authored 30 papers related

to structures in nuclear power plants.Mr. Ashars participation in National and International Standards

Organization includes Membership of the NSO and INSOCommittees such as American Institute of Steel Construction(AISC), Chairman of Nuclear Specification Committe (January1996 to March 2008), (AISC/ANSI N690); Member of BuildingSpecification Committee, and Corresponding of Seismic ProvisionsCommittee.

Mr. Ashars professional activities with The AmericanConcrete Institute (ACI) 349 Committees include Member ofthe Main committee, Subcommittee 1 on General Requirements,Materials and QA, and Subcommittee 2 on Design. His profes-sional activities also include American Society of MechanicalEngineers (ASME), Corresponding Member, Working Group on

lnservice Inspection of Concrete and Steel Containments(Subsections IWE and IWL of ASME Section XI Code), Mem-ber, ASME/ACI Joint Committee on Design, Construction,Testing and Inspection of Concrete Containments and PressureVessels; Member, RILEM Task Committee 160-MLN: Meth-odology for Life Prediction of Concrete Structures in NuclearPower Plants; Member, Federation Internationale du Beton(FIB) Task Group 1.3: Containment Structures, and Con-sultant to IAEA on Concrete Containment Database (2001 to2005).

Mr. Ashar is a Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio andState of Maryland; Fellow, American Concrete Institute; Fellow,American Society of Civil Engineers; Professional Meer

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Posttensioning Institute. Mr. Ashar is a Peer Reviewer of thePapers to be published in ASCE Material Journal, Nuclear Engi-neering and Design (NED) Periodicals and ACI Material Journal.

BAMFORD, WARREN

Warren Bamford has been a member ofSection XI since 1974, and now serves asChairman of the Subgroup on EvaluationStandards, whose charter is to develop andmaintain flaw evaluation procedures andacceptance criteria. He is a member of theExecutive Committee of Section XI, andwas also a charter member of the ASMEPost Construction Committee, whose goal

is to develop inspection, evaluation and repair criteria for non-nuclear plants. He has taught a course on the Background andTechnical Basis of the ASME Code, Section III and Section XI.Warren has been educated at Virginia Tech, Carnegie MellonUniversity, and the University of Pittsburgh.

Warrens research interests include environmental fatigue crackgrowth and stress corrosion cracking of pressure boundary materi-als, and he has been the lead investigator for two major programsin this area. He was a charter member of the InternationalCooperative Group for Environmentally Assisted Cracking, whichhas been functioning since 1977.

Warren Bamford has been employed by Westinghouse Electricsince 1972, and now serves as a consulting Engineer. He special-izes in applications of fracture mechanics to operating powerplants, with special interest in probabilistic applications. Over 80technical papers have been published in journals and conferenceproceedings.

BANDYOPADHYAY, UMA S.

Bandyopadhyay received his BSME fromJadavpur University (1970), Calcutta,India, MSME from the PolytechnicInstitute of Brooklyn (1974). He is a reg-istered Professional Engineer in the statesof New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,Massachusetts, Virginia, Wyoming andDistrict of Columbia. He has 28 years ofextensive experience in design, engineer-

ing and manufacturing of pipe supports and pipe support prod-ucts for Water Treatment and Waste Water Treatment Facilities,Oil Refineries, Co-generation, Fossil and Nuclear Power Plants.

Bandyopadhyay is currently employed by Carpenter andPaterson, Inc. as Chief Engineer and works as a consultant andRegistered Professional Engineer for affiliate Bergen-PowerPipe Supports, Inc. Prior to his current employment, he held thepositions of Design Engineer (19771980), Project Engineer(19801986) and Chief Engineer (19861992) with Bergen-Paterson Pipesupport Corp. Bandyopadhyay is a member,Working Group on Supports (Subsection NF), since 1993; wasan alternate member, Subsection NF (19861993). He is also analternate member, Manufacturers Standardization Society(MSS), Committee 403-Pipe hangers (MSS-SP-58, 69, 89, 90and 127) since 1992.

BASAVARAJU, CHAKRAPANI

Dr. Chakrapani Basavaraju, P.E., has over30 years of experience, which includesmore than 28 years in the power industryinvolving design of nuclear and non-nuclear power plants, and 3 years in theteaching profession. He received Ph.D. inMechanical Engineering from Texas A&MUniversity. He is a registered ProfessionalEngineer. He is a fellow of the American

Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).He has been working as a Mechanical Engineer at the United

States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) in the office ofNuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) since 2006. Previously, heworked Bechtel Power Corporation, Stone & Webster Corporation,and Duke Power Company. He has been recognized with severalawards which include Technical Specialist Award, OutstandingTechnical Paper awards (Bechtel 1993, 2005), and Instructor of theYear award for his exceptional achievements, contributions, andinnovative solutions to practical engineering problems. Dr.

Basavaraju has published 22 technical papers, which are of value,and practical significance to the industry and Engineering commu-nity on various topics in the areas of design and analysis of powerplant piping systems and components, Creep, Fatigue, FlowInduced Vibration, Applications of Finite Element Analysis,Extrusion, Weld shrinkage, and Hypervelocity Impact.

He contributed 3 chapters for internationally recognized refer-ence handbooks. Technical papers written by him have brokennew grounds in providing innovative and cost effective approachesto complex industry issues. He also has peer reviewed severaltechnical papers. His in-depth knowledge of analytical methods,expertise in finite element analysis techniques, and extensiveapplication experience in applying those techniques for designand analysis of power plant piping and mechanical components

have earned him the respect of his peers and superiors. He haschaired sessions of the ASME Conferences and he is servingas a member of the ASME PVP Design & Analysis TechnicalCommittee.

Dr. Basavaraju has contributed chapters to the Piping Handbook(6th Edition, 1992, & 7th Edition , 1999) and the Piping Databook(6th Edition, 2002) published by McGraw-Hill, Inc. New York, NY.In addition, he has reviewed sections of these two internationallyused reference books. His input, suggestions and contributions haveenriched the contents of these publications. Basavaraju providedsupport and background information for code changes to ASCE 7code, Tanks Seismic Group.

Technical Program Representative (TPR) for D&A Track ofASME PVP/CREEP8 Conference (2007).

Dr. Basavaraju is a member of the PVP Design and AnalysisTechnical Committee.

Serving as chair/vice chair at ASME PVP conference sessionssince 2002.

Basavaraju also chaired & co-chaired sessions for ASMEICONE10 conference.

Member, ASME Section III B&PV Code , SC III SG-D, WGPD(Working Group on Piping Design).

Member, ASME Section III B&PV Code , SC III SG-D, WGV(Working Group on Vessels).

Member, ASME Section III B&PV Code , SC III, SWG (SpecialWorking Group on Plastic Piping).



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BATEY, JON E.

Jon Batey is an ASME Fellow who hasbeen a member of ASME StandardsCommittee V since 1995 and has served asChairman since 2002. Jon has served onvarious sub-tier committees of StandardsCommittee V since 1990 and currently is amember of the Subgroup on VolumetricExamination Methods, the Subgroup onGeneral Requirements, Personnel Quali-

fications and Interpretations, the Working Group on Radio-graphy, the Working Group on Acoustic Emission, and theWorking Group on Guided Wave Ultrasonic Examination. He isalso a member of the ASME Post Construction StandardsCommittee and is Chairman of its Subcommittee on InspectionPlanning. Jon was also a member of the ASME B-16 StandardsCommittee from 1979 to 1993.

Jon is the Global Inspection Leader for The Dow ChemicalCompany in Freeport, TX. In his current role, Jon is responsiblefor inspection performed by Dow or third-party inspectors at sup-

plier fabrication shops. He received a B.S. in Physics from TexasState University. His certifications include NDT Level III inRadiography, Ultrasound, Liquid Penetrant, Magnetic Particle,Visual and Leak Test Methods.

BECHT IV, CHARLES

Dr. Becht is a recognized authority inpressure vessels, piping, expansion joints,and elevated temperature design. He isPresident of Becht Engineering Co. Inc, aconsulting engineering company providingservices to the process and power indus-

tries (www.becht.com, www.bechtns.comfor the nuclear services division, andwww.techtraining.info for technical train-

ing); President of Becht Engineering Canada Ltd.; President ofHelidex, LLC (www.helidex.com); and Director of SonomaticLtd. (also dba Becht Sonomatic, www.vsonomatic.com) a NDEcompany that provides advanced ultrasonic imaging. Chuck waspreviously with Energy Systems Group, Rockwell Internationaland Exxon Research and Engineering where he was a pressureequipment specialist. He received a PhD from MemorialUniversity in Mechanical Engineering (dissertation: Behaviorof Bellows), a MS from Stanford University in StructuralEngineering and BSCE from Union College, New York. Chuck isa licensed professional engineer in 16 states and provinces, an

ASME Fellow since 1996, recipient of the ASME DedicatedService Award in 2001, and has more than 60 publications includ-ing the book, Process Piping: The Complete Guide to ASME

B31.3, and five patents.Dr. Becht is Chair of the ASME B31.3, Process Piping

Committee; Chair (founding) of the Post Construction Sub-committee on Repair and Testing (PCC), and member of otherASME Committees including the Post Construction StandardsCommittee (past Chair); Post Construction Executive Com-mittee (past Chair); B&PV Code Subcommittee on TransportTanks; B&PV Code Subgroup on Elevated TemperatureDesign (past Chair); B31 Code for Pressure Piping Standards

Committee; B31 Mechanical Design Committee; B31 Exe-cutive Committee; and is a past member of the Board onPressure Technology Codes and Standards; the B&PV CodeSubcommittee on Design; and the B&PV Code TG on Class 1Expansion Joints for liquid metal service. He is a member ofASTM Committee F-17, Plastic Piping Systems Main Com-mittee; and the ASME PVP Division, Design and Analysis

Committee.

BERNSTEIN, MARTIN D.

Mr. Bernstein was involved in the designand analysis of steam power equipmentsince joining Foster Wheeler EnergyCorporation in 1960. Retired in 1996, hecontinued to serve as a consultant toFoster Wheeler and as their representativeon the ASME Boiler and Pressure VesselCommittee, on which he had served formore than 25 years. He was Vice Chair,

Subcommittee on Power Boilers, Chair, Subcommittee onSafety Valve Requirements, a member of the Main Committee(Standards Committee) and past Chair of Subgroup GeneralRequirements and the Subgroup Design of the Subcommittee onPower Boilers. Since 1986 he and Lloyd Yoder taught a two-daycourse on Power Boilers for the ASME Professional De-velopment Department. In 1998, ASME Press published Power

BoilersA Guide to Section I of the ASME Boiler and Pressure

Vessel Code that Bernstein and Yoder developed from theircourse notes.

Mr. Bernstein was active for many years in ASMEs PVPDivision. He was also author and editor of numerous ASME pub-lications, including journal articles on ASME design criteria,ASME rules for safety valves, flow-induced vibration in safety

valve nozzles, and tubesheet design. Mr. Bernstein obtained aB.S. and M.S. in civil engineering from the Columbia School ofEngineering and Applied Science. He was elected an ASMEFellow in 1992, received the ASME Dedicated Service Award in1994, and was awarded the ASME J. Hall Taylor Medal in 1998.He was a Registered Professional Engineer in New York State.Mr. Bernstein passed away in 2002.

BRESSLER, MARCUS N.

Mr. Bressler is President of M. N.BRESSLER, PE, INC., an engineeringconsulting firm founded in 1977, specializ-

ing in codes and standards, quality assur-ance, design, fabrication, inspection andfailure analysis for the piping, power,petroleum and chemical industries. He hasover 54 years of experience. He joinedTVA in 1971 as Principal Engineer and

was promoted in 1979 to Senior Engineering Specialist, CodesStandards and Materials. He took early retirement in 1988 to openup a private consulting practice. His previous experience was withthe US Army (1952) where he served as an Industrial HygieneEngineer; the Babcock & Wilcox Company(1955), where he heldthe positions of Engineering Draftsman, Stress Analyst, and



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Boiler Division Materials Engineer; Gulf & Western LenapeForge Division (1966) where he became Senior Design Engineer,and Taylor Forge Division (1970) as Product DevelopmentManager. At Lenape Forge he developed a design for a quick-opening manway for pressure vessels and piping that was granteda patent in 1971.

Mr. Bressler began his activities in Codes, Standards and

Materials in 1960. He has been a member of the ASME B&PVStandards Committee since 1979 to 2009, and is now a member ofthe Technical Oversight Management Commitee. He is a memberand past Vice Chair of the Committee on Nuclear Certification. Heis a member of the Standards Committees on Materials and onNuclear Power, the subgroup on Design (SCIII), the special work-ing group on Editing and Review (SC III), the Boards on NuclearCodes and Standards and on Conformity Assessment. He is theChair of the Honors and Awards Committee (BNCS). Mr. Bressleris a member of the ASTM Committees A-01 and B-02 and many oftheir subcommittees.

Mr. Bressler holds a BME degree from Cornell University(1952) and an MSME degree from Case Institute of Technology(1960). In 1989 he received a Certificate of Achievement from

Cornell University for having pursued a course that, under todaysrequirements, would have resulted in a Master of Engineeringdegree. He was awarded the ASME Century Medallion (1980),and became a Fellow of ASME in 1983. He is now a Life Fellow.He received the 1992 ASME Bernard F. Langer Nuclear Codesand Standards Award. and is the 1996 recipient of the ASME J.Hall Taylor Medal. He received the 2001 ASME DedicatedService Award. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in theState of Tennessee (Retired).

Mr. Marcus N. Bressler passed away since the publication ofthe third edition.

BROWN, ROBERT G.

Mr. Brown is a Principal Engineer andDirector of Consulting for the Equity Engi-neering Group in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Hehas experience as both an owner-user andconsultant providing engineering support torefineries and chemical plants worldwide.Mr. Brown uses advanced skills in FiniteElement Analysis to provide practical andcost effective solutions to solve design and

operational issues related to fixed equipment.Mr. Brown assisted with the development of API 579 Fitness-

For-Service and has been a consultant for the PVRC effort todevelop the new ASME, Section VIII, Division 2, Boiler and

Pressure Vessel Code, taking into consideration the latest de-velopments in materials, design, fabrication, and inspectiontechnologies.

Mr. Brown is an active member of the Battelle InternationalJoint Industry Project on the Structural Stress Method forFatigue Assessment of Welded Structures and performs fatigueassessments/reviews of equipment in cyclic service. Mr. Brownalso serves on the ASME Subgroup on Design Analysis and per-forms code compliance calculations and interpretations for pres-sure vessels. Mr. Brown is a registered Professional Engineer inthe States of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

CANONICO, DOMENIC A.

Dr. Canonico received his B. S. fromMichigan Technological University, M.S.and Ph.D. from Lehigh University. He hasover 40 years experience in pressure partsmanufacturing. Dr. Canonico is currentlyemployed by ALSTOM POWER facilitiesin Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is Past Chairof the ASME Boiler Pressure Vessel (BPV)Code Main Committee and a member of the

ASME Council on C. & S. and Vice President-elect PressureTechnology, C&S. He is a Fellow in ASME, the American WeldingSociety (AWS) and the American Society for Metals (ASM). In1999 Dr. Canonico received the ASME Melvin R. Green C&SMedal. He was the 1994 recipient of the ASME J. Hall TaylorMedal, in 1996 and 1999 respectively he was awarded the De-dicated Service Award., and the ASME Region XI Industry Exe-cutive Award. In 1978, 1979, and 1985 respectively AWS awardedhim the Dr. Rene Wasserman Award, the James F. Lincoln GoldMedal, and the William H. Hobart Memorial Medal; he was the

1983 Adams Lecturer. He is a member of the State of TennesseeBoiler Rules Board.He has written over 100 technical papers and given technical

talks in U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia. He is named inWhos Who in Engineering and Men and Women of Science. Dr.Canonico is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tennessee,Knoxville and on the Advisory Committee of the School ofEngineering, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.

CARPENTER, MARVIN L.

Marvin L. Carpenter graduated with honorsfrom Michigan Technological University

(MTU) with a B.S. in Metallurgical Eng-ineering. He continued at MTU and receivedhis Masters in Metallurgical Engineering in1974. Since graduating, his career has beenfocused on welding fabrication and testingin accordance with the ASME Boiler andPressure Vessel Code. ASME Code Com-

mittees first caught his attention in the late seventies and he hasremained active in the Code ever since. He serves on theSubcommittee on Welding (IX), Chaired the Subgroup on Brazing(IX) and currently Chairs the Subgroup on Materials (IX).

Mr. Carpenter gained expertise in production welding, brazing,failure analysis, coatings, and material testing while working formajor corporations including Westinghouse Electric Corporation,

The Trane Company, and Bechtel. His experience ranges fromsupervising a Welding Engineering Develop group to setting upand operating a materials testing laboratory that performed chem-ical analysis, mechanical testing, metallography, and weldingqualification.

In addition to his extensive materials and welding background,he was granted a patent in 1995 for a GTAW-HW circular weld-ing system. His current position is as a Principal Engineer with amajor U.S. company that provides power plant equipment. Mr.Carpenter resides in Pittsburgh, PA with his wife, Denise, and twochildren, Scott and Michelle.



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CHANG, EDMUND W. K.

Edmund W.K. Chang, P.E., received hisBSME from the University of Hawaii(UHM), 1969. Mr. Chang is currently em-ployed as the Boiler & Welding Main-tenance Engineer with Hawaiian ElectricCompany, Inc., Power Supply EngineeringDepartment, Honolulu, Hawaii. Mr. Changsresponsibilities include being in-charge ofall company boiler condition assessments,

and National Board (NB) R and VR Symbol Stamp repairprograms. Mr. Chang is also a NB commissioned O/U Inspector,in charge of in-service and acceptance inspections. He is a AWSCertified Welding Inspector (CWI), in charge of welding pro-gram, and the companys NDT Level III in PT and MT in chargeof the NDT program.

Mr. Changs professional affiliations include ASME Mem-bership since 1971; association with ASME Hawaii Section asChairman 20082009, Honors & Awards Committee Chair,Webmaster, Newsletter Editor, and Section Chair 19931994;

ASNT Hawaii Section Director and Webmaster; AWS HawaiiSection Webmaster; and Chair 1996 of Hawaii Council ofEngineering Societies. Mr. Chang is a member of the Departmentof Mechanical Engineering, UHM, Industry Advisory Board.

Mr. Changs professional publications include as a lead author ofT91 Secondary Superheater Tube Failures Investigation, 1997,ASME PVP Conference, Orlando, Florida; and Tangential-FiredBoiler Tube Failures, A Case Study, 2007, EPRI InternationalConference on Boiler & HRSG Tube Failures, Calgary, Alberta,Canada.

CHAUDOUET, ANNE

Ms. Chaudouet earned a Master of Pure

Maths at Paris XIII University in 1974 andthen obtained a Mechanical EngineeringDegree from ENSMP (Mines) in Paris-France in 1976. The same year, she startedher career at Cetim (French TechnicalCentre of Mechanical Industries) in R&Din the field of solid mechanics analysed bythe Boundary Element Method (BEM).

Soon after, she became in charge of the team responsible forthe development of all software developed at Cetim in the domainof 2D and 3D heat transfer and solid mechanics. In that role shehad the direct responsibility for the analyses of components byBEM and for fracture mechanics. In 1984, she became head of theLong Term Research Service involved in more theoretical studies

and development of design rules for pressure vessels. In the sameyear she initiated Cetim's participation in PVRC (Pressure VesselResearch Council).

Since 2003, Ms Chaudouet has been actively involved inASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code organization where sheis now a member of the Standard Committee on Materials, ofSC II/International Material Specifications (currently Chair ofthis SG), of the Standard Committee on Pressure Vessels of SCVIII/Heat Transfer Equipment and of the Technical OversightManagement Committee. She is also an active member of theASME/API Joint Committee on Fitness for Service.

In France, Ms. Chaudouet is a member of the Liaison Com-mittee dealing with the European Directive on Pressure Equip-ment and of the Liaison Committee dealing with the French Orderon Nuclear Pressure Equipment.

Ms. Chaudouet has published over 30 papers in French and inEnglish in the domain of Boundary Elements, Fracture Mechanicsand more recently on Fitness-For-Service. Most of these were

presented at International Conferences. Member of several Ph Dtheses, she has developed professional courses on these topics. Inthe domain of pressure equipment she has also given short cours-es on the European Directive (PED).

CIPOLLA, RUSSELL C.

Mr. Russell Cipolla is Principal Engineerfor Intertek APTECH, Sunnyvale, Cali-fornia (USA). Mr. Cipolla received hisB.S. degree in Mechanical Engineeringfrom Northeastern University in 1970, andhis M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMechanics in 1972. He has been active inthe Nuclear Power Industry since the early

1970s having worked at the nuclear divisions of Babcock &Wilcox and General Electric in the area of ASME Section IIIdesign associated with both naval and commercial power plantssystems.

Mr. Cipolla has specialized in stress analysis and fatigue andfracture mechanics evaluations of power plant components inoperating plants. He has applied his skills to many service prob-lems to include stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of J-grooveattachments welds in reactor vessel head penetrations and pres-surizer heater sleeves, mechanical and thermal fatigue in piping,SCC in low pressure steam turbine rotors and blades, and fitness-

for-service of components supports. He was also involved inresolving the NRC Generic Safety Issues A-11 and A-12 regard-ing fracture toughness and bolted joint integrity. He is well versedin the integrity of threaded fasteners for both structural joints andpressure boundary closures.

In recent years, he has been active in both deterministic andprobabilistic methods and acceptance criteria for nuclear steamgenerators (SG) regarding pressure boundary integrity in compli-ance with NEI 97-06 requirements. In support of industry groupefforts, he has made significant contributions to the industryguidelines for the assessment of tube integrity and leakage perfor-mance for various degradation mechanisms affecting Alloy 600and 690 tubing materials. He has development methods for pre-dicting tube burst and leak rates under various service conditions,

which have become part of the industry standards.Mr. Cipolla has been very active in ASME Section XI since

joining the Working Group on Flaw Evaluation in 1975, for whichhe is currently Chairman. He is also a member of the Subgroupon Evaluation Standards and Subcommittee Section XI, and hasparticipated in many ad hoc committees on such topics as envi-ronmental fatigue, SCC of austenitic materials, and fracturetoughness reference curves for pressure vessels and piping, andSG tube examination. Mr. Cipolla has authored/coauthored over80 technical papers on various subjects and assessments from hispast work.



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COLE, JACK R.

Jack Cole is a Senior Advisory Engineerfor Becht Engineering Nuclear ServicesDivision. Mr. Cole has over thirty fiveyears of experience in the nuclear powerindustry, including nuclear waste manage-ment, nuclear plant construction, and 30years in commercial nuclear power plantdesign and operation. Prior to joiningBecht Engineering, Mr. Cole worked 30

years for Energy Northwest, the operator of the ColumbiaGenerating Station BWR. At Energy Northwest, Mr. Cole servedas the Design Authority responsible for plant Civil/Structural/Stresslicensing basis compliance. Mr. Coles work activities haveincluded design of pressure vessels and piping systems, develop-ment of ASME Design Specifications for pressure components,operability assessments for degraded components, repair andreplacement activities for mechanical components, plant vibrationand thermal fatigue monitoring and support for major projectssuch as plant power uprate, pump and valve replacement, replace-

ment of the plant condenser and heaters, and time limited agingevaluations for license renewal. Mr. Cole has served as technicalconsultant to IAEA in the area of aging management for mechani-cal components for plant life extension and is an instructor forcourses in ASME Section III Design and Fitness for Service.

Mr. Cole has been an active member of the ASME Section IIICodes and Standards for the past 28 years. He is currently ViceChairman of BPV Committee on Construction of Nuclear FacilityComponents (BPV III), Chairman of the BPV III ExecutiveCommittee on Strategy and Project Management, Chairman of theSpecial Committee on Interpretations (BPV III), Member of theSubgroup on Component Design (BPV III), Member and PastChairman of the Working Group on Piping, and past member ofthe Working Group on Supports (III).

Mr. Cole has a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering fromOregon State University (1972) with additional graduate studiesat the University of Washington and Washington State Uni-versity. Mr. Cole is a Registered Professional Engineer. He haspublished several papers on piping fatigue analysis and vibrationassessment.

CONLISK, PETER J.

Dr. Conlisks has a B.S. in MechanicalEngineering and M.S. in EngineeringScience from the University of NotreDame and Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics

from the University of Michigan. He hasforty years experience applying engineer-ing principles, computers, experimentaltechniques, and Codes and Standards tosolving design of processing equipment

and vessels in the chemical industry. From 1960 until 1968, heworked in the Aerospace industry and from 1968 until his earlyretirement in 1993, Dr. Conlisk worked for the MonsantoCorporation, the last 19 years in the Engineering Department. Hewas a key member in a team at Monsanto that developed acousticemission examination for fiberglass and metal tanks and vessels.His services are now available through Conlisk EngineeringMechanics, Inc., a consulting firm he formed in 1994. He has

concentrated on design of tanks and pressure vessel, especiallyfiberglass composite (FRP) vessels. Dr. Conlisk is a nationallyrecognized authority in FRP equipment design and analysis. He isa member of the ASME committee that developed the ASME/ANSI Standard: Reinforced Thermosetting Plastic CorrosionResistant Equipment, RTP-1.

Dr. Conlisk is past chairman and current vice-chairman of the

ASME B&PV Code subcommittee, Section X, governing FRPpressure vessels. He is also a past member of the main committeeof the ASME B&PV Code. Dr. Conlisk is a registered profession-al engineer in Missouri.

Dr. Peter J. Conlisk passed away since the publication of thethird edition.

CORNMAN, E. ROBERT JR.

Bob Cornman is a Director of ProductEngineering for the Flow Solutions Groupof the Flowserve Corporation. He holds aBS degree in Civil Engineering from

Lehigh University and an MBA fromLehigh University. Bob Cornman is aRegistered Professional Engineer in the

State of Pennsylvania. He is an active ASME member and hasbeen chairman of ASME Nuclear Section III Working Group onPumps for many years.

Bob Cornmans engineering career spans more than 40years all of which has been spent working for Flowserve or itslegacy companies in the design and manufacturing of centrifu-gal pumps. His primary areas of expertise are in the design,application, and manufacturing of very large vertical singlepumps and vertical multi-stage can pumps. He has authorednumerous papers on vertical pump design, applications, andother associated equipment.

Past projects and work experience has involved major fossiland nuclear power generating stations, large drainage and floodcontrol projects, and pump manufacturing test facilities.

DEARDORFF, ARTHUR F.

Arthur F. Deardorff has a MechanicalEngineering B.S, from Oregon StateUniversity (1964) and MS, University ofArizona (1966). He is a RegisteredMechanical Engineer, State of California.He is a Vice President, Structural IntegrityAssociates, San Jose, California. His pro-

fessional experience includes 1987 to pre-sent with Structural Integrity Associates,

San Jose, CA, 19761987 with NUTECH, San Jose, CA,19701976 with General Atomic Company, San Diego, CA and19661970 with The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA. His profes-sional associations include American Society of MechanicalEngineers and American Nuclear Society. He is a Past Member ofthe ASME Code Section XI Subgroup Water Cooled Systems,Working Group on Implementation of Risk-Based Inspection,Task Group on Erosion-Corrosion Acceptance Criteria, TaskGroup on Fatigue in Operating Plants, and Task Group onOperating Plant Fatigue Assessment, and the ASME Code PostConstruction Committee, Subgroup on Crack-Like Flaws.



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Mr. Deardorff has expertise in fracture mechanics, stressanalysis and reactor systems evaluation, with a strong academicbackground in thermal-hydraulics and fluid system. His exper-tise includes PWR and BWR systems and fossil-fired powerplants. Art is known internationally for providing ASME Codetraining in Section III design and analysis and Section XI flawevaluation.

EBERHARDT, ARTHUR CURT

Dr. Eberhardt has a Bachelor of Architec-tural Engineering from Iowa State Uni-versity. Ames, IA and a Ph.D. from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana, IL. He is aRegistered Structural Engineer in the Stateof Illinois and a Registered ProfessionalEngineer in the States of Texas and Illinois.Dr. Eberhardt is a Senior Manager/Senior

Consultant at Sargent & Lundy, LLC in Chicago, Illinois, where hehas worked for 37 years on projects involving nuclear plant design

and analysis. Dr. Eberhardt has gained a wide variety of structuralengineering experience in many areas including containmentdesign, dry spent fuel storage structures, seismic analysis, blastanalysis, plant modifications, heavy loads analysis, design criteriadevelopment, design basis reconstitution, configuration baselinedocumentation, high-density spent fuel pool analysis, structuralmaintenance rule evaluations, and 10CFR 50.59 safety evaluations.He has worked on projects associated with more than 14 nuclearpower plants.

Dr. Eberhardt has served on ASME BP&V Code Committees formore than 23 years. He currently is Chair of the Joint ACI/ASMECommittee on Concrete Components for Nuclear Service (alsoknown as ACI Committee 359), which is responsible for the ASMESection III, Division 2 Code for Concrete Containments. He is also

a member of the ASME Section III Committee on Construction ofNuclear Facility Components and an ex-officio member of theASME Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards.

FELDSTEIN, JOEL G.

Joel Feldstein has a Metallurgical Engi-neering B.S. (1967) and M.S. (1969) fromBrooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He hasmore than 30 years experience in thewelding field ranging from welding re-search for a filler metal manufacturer towelding engineering in the aerospace and

power generation industries. He began hiscareer in power generation with Babcock

& Wilcox in 1972 at their R&D Division working on manufactur-ing-related projects and moved into plant manufacturing in 1984as the Manager of Welding. There he became familiar with theconstruction of components for both nuclear and fossil applica-tions. His first assignment on coming to Foster Wheeler in 1993was in the Technical Center as Manager of Metallurgical Serviceslater taking on the additional responsibility of the WeldingLaboratory. In 1998 he assumed the responsibility of ChiefWelding Engineer.

Joel, who is currently Chairman of the ASME BPV CodeTechnical Oversight Management Committee, a member of the

Board on Pressure Technology Codes & Standards and theCouncil on Standards & Certification, began his ASME Codeinvolvement with the Subcommittee on Welding (the responsiblecommittee for Section IX) in 1986. In 1992 he became Chairmanof the Subcommittee on Welding and became a member of theB&PVC Standards Committee. He is an ASME Fellow and recip-ient of the J Hall Taylor Medal from ASME for the advancement

of standards for welding in pressure vessel and piping construc-tion. He is also been a member of the BPV Committee on PowerBoilers (Section I).

He is also active in other professional societies including AWSand the Welding Research Council where he served as Chairmanof the Stainless Steel Subcommittee, the High Alloys Committeeand a member of their Board of Directors.

FREY, JOSEPH W.

Joe Frey is currently the Chair of theASME B31.1 Power Piping Code Com-mittee. He has been a member of the B31.1

Code committee since 1992 and has fo-cused mainly on the fabrication, erection,examination, and maintenance of powerpiping. Joe is the Power Practice Lead atStress Engineering Services, Inc. (SES) in

Houston, Texas. Joe is a licensed engineer who has spent 31 yearsdeveloping fitness for service programs for piping systems. Partof his work is the emergency repair of piping and pressurevessels. Since joining SES, in 2004 Joe has worked several moreemergency repairs, including twelve fire assessments in the lastfour years (Oct 2011).

GIMPLE, RICHARD E.

Richard Gimple has a BSME from KansasState University (1974) and is a RegisteredProfessional Engineer. Since 1982 he hasbeen employed by the Wolf Creek NuclearOperating Corporation. Previous employ-ment was with Sauder Custom Fabrication(19791982) and Fluor Engineers andConstructors (19741979).

As a nuclear utility employee, he hasprimarily been involved in implementation of ASMEs Boiler& Pressure Vessel Code Section III and Section XI duringconstruction and operation activities. Previous non-nuclearexperience involved Section VIII pressure vessel and heat

exchanger design and construction. At present, as a PrincipalEngineer, Mr. Gimple provides company wide assistance inthe use of ASME Codes, with emphasis on Section III andSection XI.

Mr. Gimple has been active in the Codes and Standards devel-opment process since 1984. Mr. Gimple was the 2005 recipient ofthe ASME Bernard F. Langer Nuclear Codes and StandardsAward. He is currently a member of the B&PV StandardsCommittee (since 2000), the Subcommittee on InserviceInspection of Nuclear Power Plant Components (since 1994, serv-ing 5 years as Chairman of Subcommittee XI during 20002004),the Section XI Executive Committee (since 1992), and theSubgroup on Repair/Replacement Activities (since 1987, serving



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as Chairman for 7 of those years). Past Codes and Standards par-ticipation included 6 years on the Board on Nuclear Codes andStandards and memberships on the Subcommittee on NuclearAccreditation, Subgroup on Design (in Section III), and threeSection XI Working Groups.

GRABER, HAROLD C.

Harold Graber works as an IndependentConsultant. Previously he was with theBabcock Wilcox Company in the NuclearEquipment Division for 34 years. He wasManager of NDT Operations and Managerof Quality Assurance Engineering. HaroldGraber is a Member of ASME for 15years.

He is an active participant on the B&PVCode, Subcommittee V on Nondestructive Examination. He wasVice Chair Subcommittee V; Chair, Subgroup on Surface Exam-ination. He was Member of Subcommittee V on Nondestructive

Examination, Subgroup of Volumetric Examination, Subgroup onPersonnel Qualification and Inquiries.

Harold Graber is a Member, American Society for TestingMaterials (ASTM) for 26 years. He was Chairman, SubcommitteeE7.01 on Radiology. His Committee memberships include Com-mittee E-7 on Nondestructive Examination, Subcommittee E7.02Reference Radiological Images, Subcommittee E7.06 UltrasonicMethod. He is a Member, American Society for NondestructiveTesting (ASNT). He is a Past Chair, Cleveland, Ohio Section1971.

Harold Graber is the recipient of ASTM Merit Fellow Award(1992); ASTM Committee E-7C.W Briggs Award (1989);ASNT Fellow Award (1978). His Certifications include ASNT;Level III certificates in Radiography, Ultrasonic, Liquid Penetrant

and Magnetic Particle Methods.

GRUBB, JOHN F.

Dr. Grubb received his B. S. from LehighUniversity, M.S. and Ph.D. from RensselaerPolytechnic Institute. He has over 30 yearsexperience with corrosion-resistant alloys.His primary areas of expertise are in mate-rials environmental resistance, behavior andapplications. He is the author of more than50 papers as well as several handbookchapters. Dr. Grubb is currently employed

by ATI Allegheny Ludlum. He is co-inventor of several patentedcorrosion-resistant alloys.

Dr. Grubb has been active with the ASME Boiler andPressure Vessel Committees since 2001 and is the current chair-man of the ASME Sub-Group on Physical Properties forSection II as well as chairman of the ASME Sub-Group onMaterials for Section VIII. He is also an active member of theSub-Groups on External Pressure, Ferrous Specifications, andNon-Ferrous Alloys (all BPV II). Dr. Grubb is a Fellow ofASM International (the former American Society for Metals).He is active in ASTM where he has revised several materialsand testing specifications.

HALLEY, GEOFFREY M.

Geoffrey M Halley, P.E. holds degrees inElectrical Engineering, Mechanical Engi-neering, and Engineering Administration(Masters). He is a Registered ProfessionalEngineer in Illinois. From 1993 to the pre-sent he is the President of Sji Consultants,Inc., a technical consulting company, provid-ing services to the boiler industry in theareas of product design, development, trou-

ble shooting and forensic investigation/expert witness work. He has40 years of boiler industry experience, ranging from research/prod-uct development, design and applications/installation., primarily inthe institutional and industrial segments of the marketplace. He heldvarious positions at Kewanee Boiler Corporation from 1968 to 1986,initially as Supervisor of Research and Development, and as VicePresident Technical Director from 1979 onwards. From 1986through 1992 he was president of Halcam Associates a MechanicalContracting Company specializing in commercial, institutional andindustrial design/build/service and repair of boiler and HVAC sys-

tems. From 1959 through 1968 he was employed in the Aerospaceand the Nuclear Engineering industries.Geoffrey Halley was Chair of ABMA Joint Technical Committee

(19811986), and has been a member of several boiler industryadvisory groups to the USEPA and USDOE. He currently is ABMADirector of Technical Affairs, and was Editor of ABMA PackagedBoiler Engineering Manual. He has been an Instructor at boilerindustry technician training schools offered by ABMA/NBBI, andboiler manufacturers. He has authored a number of papers on boilerrelated topics, published in The National Board Bulletin, BoilerSystems Engineering, and Maintenance Management.

Geoffrey Halley currently is a member of the ASME CSD-1Committee, and the National Board Inspection Code Sub-committeeon Installation.

HAYDEN JR., LOUIS E.

Louis Hayden has over 40 years of experi-ence as a mechanical engineer, projectmanager and vice president of engineering.This experience has been in the design,analysis, fabrication, installation, startupand maintenance of industrial piping andequipment Systems have included aboveand below ground piping and pipelines inprocess plants, fossil and nuclear power

plants, transmission pipelines and industrial manufacturing facili-

ties. He has managed and directed the manufacturer of high yieldpipeline pipe fittings and developed new pipeline closure andflange products as well as managed the efforts of new productdevelopment and research groups.

Currently a consulting mechanical engineer and adjunct profes-sor of mechanical engineering at Lafayette College, Easton,PA. Previous employers have been Fluor Corp., Houston;Brown&Root Inc.,

Houston; Tube Turns, Inc., Louisville; Victaulic Corp., Easton,PA.

Member of ASME B31 Piping Standards Committee since1985.



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Vice Chair ASME B31 Piping Standards Committee 19901993and 20012004.

Chairman ASME B31 Piping Standards Committee 19932001.Member ASME Board on Pressure Technology Codes and

Standards 19932005.Vice President of ASME Board on Pressure Technology Codes

and Standards 20082011.

Vice Chair ASME Board on Pressure Technology Codes andStandards 20052008.Chairman ASME Task Group for development of B31.12

Hydrogen Piping and Pipeline Code.Member Board on Pressure Technology Codes and Standards

Materials for Hydrogen Service Task Group.

HECHMER, JOHN

Mr. John Hechmer has a degree in IMechanical Engineering from the Uni-versity I of Notre Dame (1957). He joinedthe I Babcock & Wilcox Co. (now owned

by I McDermott, Inc.) for design and analy-sis I work for pressure vessels. His workwas I primarily for the power generationand I defense industries. His experienceincluded project and engineering manage-

ment, technology development, and management. His PowerGeneration products were for both BWR and PWR nuclear electricplants. Defense Industries work addressed Class 1 pressure vesselsfor the nuclear navy program, primarily nuclear reactors and steamgenerators for aircraft carriers and submarines. Research productsincluded Breeder Reactor Program, Sodium-steam Generator,Molten Salt Steam Generator. Technology Development was spentin developing tools and procedures for design-analysis interfacingwith the Research Center and Engineering Fabrication of Babcock &

Wilcox Co. This was enhanced by many years of participation inASME B&PV Committees, PVRC, and PV&P Conferences.These engineering efforts occurred for 40 years.

Mr. John Hechmer has more than 25 publications, addressingprimary and secondary stress evaluation, stress intensity factors,finite element methods and its applications, brittle fracture, weld-ing capability for fatigue, and materials characteristic, examplesof this are PVRC Bulletins #429 (3D Stress Criteria GuidelinesFor Application) and #432 (Fatigue-Strength-Reduction Factorsfor Welds Based on NDE).

HEDDEN, OWEN F.

Owen F. Hedden retired from ABB Com-bustion Engineering in 1994 after over 25years of ASME B&PV Committee activitieswith company support. His responsibilitiesincluded reactor vessel specifications, safetycodes and standards, and interpretation ofthe B&PV Code and other industry stan-dards. He Continued working part-time forthat organization into 2002. Subsequently,

he has been a part-time consultant to the ITER project and severalother organizations. Prior to joining ABB he was with FosterWheeler Corporation (19561967), Naval Nuclear program. Since

1968 Mr. Hedden has been active in the Section XI CodeCommittee, Secretary (19761978), Chair (19912000). In additionto Section XI, Owen has been a member of the ASME C&S Boardon Nuclear Codes and Standards, the Boiler and Pressure VesselCommittee, and B&PV Subcommittees on Power Boilers, Design,and Nondestructive Examination. He is active in ASMEs PVPDivision. Mr Hedden was the first Chair of the NDE Engineering

Division 19821984. He has presented ASME Code short coursesin the US and overseas. He was educated at Antioch College andMassachusetts Institute of Technology.

His publications are in the ASME Journal of Pressure VesselTechnology, WRC Bulletins and in the Proceedings of ASMEPVP, ICONE, IIW, ASM, and SPIE. He is an ASME Fellow(1985), received the Dedicated Service Award (1991), and theASME Bernard F. Langer Nuclear Codes and Standards Award in1994.

HENRY, JEFFREY F.

Jeff Henry currently works as a Senior

Associate at Structural Integrity Associates,Inc. and formerly was Director of ALSTOMPower Inc.s Materials Technology Center inChattanooga, TN. His professional experi-ence has been concentrated on the serviceperformance of power plant materials, withparticular focus on high temperature be-havior, welding, and the Creep Strength-

Enhanced Ferritic Steels, such as Grade 91. He has authored over 60technical papers. Mr. Henry is an ASME Fellow and is active on anumber of the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code technicalcommittees where he chairs BPV II, the Materials StandardsCommittee, as well as the Task Group on Creep Strength-EnhancedFerritic Steels. He also is a member of BPV I (Power Boilers) and

of the Management Oversight Technical Committee (TOMC).

HENRY, PHILIP A.

Mr. Henry, Principal Engineer for the EquityEngineering Group in Shaker Heights, Ohio,is a specialist in the design, installation, siz-ing and selection of pressure relief devicesand relieving systems. He is currently chair-man of the API Pressure Relieving SystemSubcommittees Task Force on RP 520 re-lated to the design and installation of pres-sure relieving systems. He conducts audits

of pressure relieving systems to ensure compliance with OSHAPSM legislation and ASME, API and DIERs standards, codes andpublications. He also teaches the official API Pressure RelievingSystems course.

Mr. Henry is actively involved in the development of techno-logy for the API Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) methodology. He isco-author of the re-write of API 581, Risked-Based Inspection

Base Resource Documentand is responsible for the developmentand implementation of Risk-Based Inspection programs for pres-sure relief valves and heat exchanger bundles at refining andpetrochemical plants. He also teaches the official API 580/581

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Mr. Henry provides technical support and engineering consultingto all levels of refinery capital projects. He has been responsible forthe preparation of purchase specifications, bid tabulations, designreviews and the development and validation of approved vendorslists. He conducts project safety reviews for construction and pre-startup phases of major capital projects. His responsibilities includedeveloping and maintaining engineering specifications in the pres-

sure relief and heat transfer areas and providing overall coordination.Mr. Henry is a registered Professional Engineer in the States ofOhio and Texas.

HESSHEIMER, MICHAEL F.

Mike Hessheimer is currently the Managerfor Mechanical Environments testing in theEngineering Sciences Centers Validationand Qualification Sciences ExperimentalComplex at Sandia National Laboratories inAlbuquerque, New Mexico. Prior to his cur-rent assignment, he managed the Nuclear

Power Plant Security Assessment programsconducted for the US Nuclear Regulatory

Commission and was the Project Manager and PrincipalInvestigator for the Cooperative Containment Research Project,

jointly funded by the Nuclear Power Engineering Corporation ofJapan and the US NRC. His technical expertise is focused on theresponse of structures (with a special emphsis on containment ves-sels) subjected to extreme loads due to natural, accident and hostileevents and is the author of numerous reports and papers on this sub-

ject. Prior to his employment at Sandia National Laboratories, Mr.Hessheimer was a consultant in private practice and was alsoemployed by BDM International, Morrison-Knudsen Co. Inc. andSargent and Lundy Engineers where he worked on the design andanalysis of nuclear containment structures. Mr. Hessheimer

received his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Structuraland Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Heis a Registered Professional Engineer in New Mexico. He is also amember of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the AmericanConcrete Institute and the American Society of MechanicalEngineers. He is a member and past chair of the ACI/ASME JointCommittee on Concrete Components for Nuclear Service (ASMEBoiler and Pressure Vessel Code Section III, Division 2 Code forConcrete Containments.

HOLLINGER, GREG L.

Greg L. Hollinger is a Senior Principal

Engineer for BWX Technologies, Inc. inBarberton, Ohio. He has responsibility forMechanical/Structural Technology Appli-cations and Design Analysis of NavyNuclear Pressure Vessel Components anduse of the ASME Boiler & Pressure VesselCode. He chairs the Engineering Depart-ments Technical Support Team responsible

for developing technology procedures. He is involved with bothnuclear and non-nuclear ASME Certificates of Authorization forBWXTs Nuclear Equipment Division.

Greg is a Fellow Member of ASME, and was the 2004 recipi-ent of the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Medal. He is theChairman of the Subgroup on Design Analysis of the Sub-

committee on Design of the ASME Boiler and Pressure VesselCode. Greg is a member of the Pressure Vessel Research Council(PVRC) and the International Council on Pressure VesselTechnology (ICPVT). He has served on several Boards within theASME Council on Codes and Standards, and he served as Chairof the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division in 1995.

Greg is an Registered Professional Engineer (Ohio) with

30 years of engineering practice in power-related industries.

JETTER, ROBERT I.

Mr. Jetter has over 40 years experience inthe design and structural evaluation ofnuclear components and systems for ele-vated temperature service where the effectsof creep are significant. He was a contribu-tor to the original ASME Code Caseseventually leading to Subsection NH. Forover 20 years he was Chair of the Sub-group on Elevated Temperature Design

responsible for the design criteria for elevated temperaturenuclear components. He was Chair of the Subgroup on ElevatedTemperature Construction, Vice Chairman of the Subcommitteeon Design and a member of the Subcommittee on Nuclear Power.He currently again chairs the SG-ETD. Mr. Jetter has participatedin domestic and international symposia on the elevated tempera-ture design criteria. He was a member of a Department of Energy(DOE) steering committee responsible for the design criteria, andwas a consultant and reviewer on various DOE projects. As a longtime employee of Rockwell International/Atomics International,he was associated from the early sodium cooled reactors andspace power plants through all the US LMFBR programs.

Recently he was an International Fellow for the Power Reactorand Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation at the Monju Fast

Breeder Reactor site in Japan. He is a graduate in MechanicalEngineering from Cal Tech (BS) and Stanford (MS) and has adegree from UCLA in Executive Management. He is a fellow ofthe ASME.

JOLLY, GUY A.

Guy A. Jolly is a consultant engineer forVogt Valves/Flowserve Corporation of Sul-phur Springs, Texas. Guy Jolly retired asChief Engineer of Vogt Valve in 2001. Heholds a BS degree in Mechanical Engi-neering from the University of Kentucky

and a MA degree in Mathematics from theUniversity of Louisville. Guy Jolly is aRegistered Professional Engineer in the

State of Kentucky. Guy Jolly is active on the American Society ofMechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Petroleum Institute(API), and the Manufacturing Standardization Society of theValve and Fitting Industry (MSS) standards writing committees.He is an ASME Fellow and received the ASME DedicatedService Award in 2008. He is a past president of MSS. He is acurrent member of ASME B16 and B31 Standards Committeesand is past Chair of ASME B16 Subcommittee F for fittings. Hecurrently serves as Vice Chair of ASME B16 Standards Com-mittee and Vice Chair of B16 SC-N, Valve Committee. He servesas Chair of the Honors and Award Committee for both ASME



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B16 and B31 Standards Committees. He also serves on theASME Nuclear Section III Working Group on Valves. He serveson API Refinery Subgroups on Valves and Quality. He is currentChair of MSS Technical Committee (TC) 114 (Steel Valves) andTC 105 (Steel Flanges and Fittings). Guy Jolly has served as aUSA expert of industrial valves at International Organization forStandardization (ISO) conferences in the USA, Yugoslavia,

England, France, Italy and the Netherlands.Guy Jollys engineering career spans more than fifty years. Hehas made significant contributions to the piping industry while anemployee of a NASA Contractor and a large manufacturer of valvesand fittings. While at Chrysler Space Division in Huntsville, AL hewas the Project Engineer for developing a multishape piping stan-dard for high-pressure liquid hydrogen fuel systems that was pub-lished for use in space vehicles piping systems. While withChrysler Space Division he was a representative on the MarshallCenter Zero Leakage Committee with a goal to reduce leakagefrom piping and components aboard space vehicles. Mr. Jollysaccomplishments include the establishment and management of aNuclear Products Group for the Henry Vogt Machine Co., whichmanufactured N stamp valves for the nuclear power industry. He

has published a number of papers including those dealing withleakage fluid mechanics and fugitive emission issues. Guy A.Jolly, Colonel, USAR, Retired, is a retired 30-year veteran of theArmy Reserve Program. His military education included the AirWar College and the Command and General Staff College.

JONES, DAVID P.

Dr. Jones has 40 years experience in struc-tural design analysis and is lead consultantand developer on structural design proce-dures for SDB-63 (Structural Design Basis,Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept., Washington,

D.C.). Dr. Jones is an expert on brittle frac-ture, fatigue crack growth, fatigue crack initi-ation, elastic and elastic-plastic finite elementmethods, elastic and elastic-plastic perforated

plate methods, limit load technology, linear and non-linear computa-tional methods and computer applications for structural mechanics.Dr. Joness key contributions have been developing computer pro-grams that allow use of complex three-dimensional finite elementstress and strain results for the evaluation of ASME structural designstress limits. He introduced numerical methods to compute fatigueusage factors, fatigue crack growth, brittle fracture design marginsand the like that have now become standards for use in naval nucleardesign. He is currently working on using finite element elastic-plasticanalysis tools for evaluation of limit load, fatigue, shakedown, and

ratchet failure modes.Dr. Jones has been an active contributor to the ASME Boiler

and Pressure Vessel Code Committees; secretary and member ofSubgroup on Fatigue strength, Member and chairman of theSubgroup on Design Analysis, Chairman of the Subcommittee onDesign, and Chairman of the Task Force on Elastic-Plastic FEA.Dr. Jones was Chairman of Metal Properties Council Task Forceon Fatigue Crack Growth Technology. He has also served asAssociate Editor of the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessels andPiping. He has published over thirty papers on the topics offatigue, fatigue crack growth, fracture mechanics, perforated platetechnology, computational structural mechanics methods, non-linear structural analysis methods, finite element code developmentfor fracture mechanics applications, finite element applications for

perforated plate analysis (elastic and elastic-plastic), post-processing finite element results for ASME Boiler and PressureVessel Code Section III assessment, limit load technology, andelastic-plastic fracture mechanics. He has been awarded ASMEPVP Literature Award Outstanding Survey Paper of 1992 inASMEJournal of Pressure Vessels and Piping and ASME PVPDConference Award Outstanding Technical Paper form Codes &

Standards July 26, 2000. Dr. Jones received his BS and MSdegrees from the University of Toledo in 1967 and 1968 and hisPhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1972. Dr. Jones is aFellow of ASME and has worked at the Bettis Atomic PowerLaboratory in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania since 1968 where hecurrently holds the position of Consultant Engineer.

JOVALL, OLA

Ola Jovall has a Master of Science degree inCivil Engineering from Chalmers Universityof Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He isan Associate and Head of Engineering

Department of Scanscot Technology AB,Lund, Sweden. His professional experienceincludes more than 25 years working in thefield of Structural Design Engineering. Mr.Jovall has during his profession been in-

volved in structural investigations of 9 of the 12 reactor containmentunits present in Sweden. Since 2004 he is involved in Nuclear PowerPlant (NPP) New Built projects in Scandinavia, including the thirdreactor at Olkiluoto, Finland, now under construction. His engage-ment has mainly been related to issues regarding the reactor contain-ment structure. During the years, Mr. Jovall has also been heavilyinvolved in developing design requirements and guidelines fordesign of safetyrelated Civil structures at NPPs including reactorcontainments. He is Co-Author of a NPP Swedish Industry Standard

for concrete design in force at the NPP units in Sweden. He is on thebehalf of the Swedish Radiati

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