Timothy M. Adams is the corporate chief mechanical engineer
of JD Stevenson and Associates. He has over 29 years experience in the design
of pressure retaining components to Section III and Section VIII of the ASME
Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code and the B31 series codes. Mr. Adams is responsible
for: project management, provision of technical consulting and design work
in the areas of design/analysis of piping systems; pressure vessels/tanks;
mechanical equipment; structures; application of industry consensus codes
and standards for the electric power generation; petrochemical; process industries
and DOE nuclear waste processing facilities. He currently serves on several
ASME committees, and has authored over 50 technical publications in the mechanical
design field.
Manfred Dilly is an engineer with over 39 years of experience
at KSB, a wide acting pump manufacturer, including long term work with ASME
codes and standards, Core Technology KTA and Pressure Equipment Directive.
Mr. Dilly’s experience regarding ASME Code-related activities dates
back to 1972 when KSB AG Frankenthal, applied for their first ASME Certificate
of Authorisation. During his tenure with the company, Mr. Dilly was integrally
involved in the preparation and performance of 18 nuclear ASME surveys at
KSB Frankenthal and Pegnitz, and introduced QA systems at their India, Frankenthal,
and Brazil locations. He worked continuously as a manager within the Quality
Department until his retirement in 2007. Mr. Dilly still works part time as
a consultant. He represents KSB in the ASME group of Interested Experts, managed
by the ASME delegate Mr. Horst Michael.
Philip Flenner is senior welding consultant and founding
member of Flenner Engineering Services, LLC. He has over 30 years of experience
in welding qualifications and training, engineering training, power plant
repair methods, quality control and performance assessment, nuclear dry fuel
storage, and codes and standards. He is a member of the ASME B31 Code for
Pressure Piping Main Committee, the B31.1 Power Piping Section Committee and
the ASME Section IX Committee on Welding and Brazing Qualifications as well
as other national codes and standards committees.
Ron Frend is a registered engineer, and has nearly 40 years
of engineering, consulting and management experience. The focus of his career
has been practical applications of maintenance and engineering. Mr. Frend
is experienced in a variety of predictive maintenance analytical techniques
as well as in management skills suitable to an engineering consultancy and
a large multinational corporation. He has conducted specialised training on
the following topics: fitness for service, management techniques, non-destructive
testing and inspection of static equipment, rotating equipment (operation,
design and maintenance), resistance and gas welding, vibration analysis, infrared
thermography and passive ultrasonics.
Charles Hellier currently serves as an independent consultant.
He is called upon to provide independent third-party assessments and to assist
in the resolution of disputes as an expert witness. He has been active in
the technology of non-destructive testing and related quality and inspection
fields for over 50 years. He holds an ASNT Level III Certificate in five methods
and is a board certified forensic examiner. He recently authored the Handbook
of Nondestructive Evaluation, published by McGraw-Hill.
Jeffrey Henry has over 35 years of experience in the power
industry, and has
been the director of ALSTOM’s Materials Technology Center in Chattanooga,
Tennessee, US, for 16 years. He is currently the chairman of ASME BPV II and
chairman of the BPV II Task Group on the CSEF Steels.
Robert Kauer (Dipl. Ing., Dr. Ing.) has been working in
the field of pressure vessel and piping technology since 1990, starting as
an R&D engineer at the Institute of PVP Design, Experimental Stress Analysis
and Plant Engineering in Munich. He has handled various national and international
projects related to design, structural reliability, fitness for service, and
inspection programme development for nuclear and non-nuclear applications
in pressure vessel and piping technology. He holds a US National Board Commission
as ASME authorized inspector and is a member of various national and European
committees. Currently he is head of the Plant Optimisation Department at TÜV
SÜD Industry Service GmbH. He received his engineering degree from the
Technical University of Munich.
Kamran Mokhtarian, PE, has 40 years of experience in design,
analysis and fabrication of pressure equipment. He presently performs consulting
services to the pressure vessel industry. He is the Vice Chairman of ASME
Code Subcommittee VIII, a member of ASME Post Construction Committee, ASME/API
Joint Committee on Fitness-For-Service and a number of other professional
organisations. He is also the Chairman of the Pressure Vessel Research Committee
(PVRC).
Ken Sowder, PhD, is a senior consultant to the nuclear industry.
He works with manufacturers and suppliers to develop management systems meeting
requirements of codes and standards such as ASME NQA-1-2008, ISO 9001:2008
and IAEA GS-R-3. He worked for the ITER Project on site in France from 2004-2007
as responsible officer & division head for ITER Quality Assurance, and
from 2008-2009 as expert contractor reporting to the ITER’s director
general and deputy director general safety and security. He helped develop
the ITER interfaces with international organisations such as IAEA, JSME and
ISO. In addition, he works with code and standard writing organisations (SO)
such as ASME, JSME and IAEA. He is a member of Section III Committees, NQA-1
Committees, the ISO 9001 TC 176 US TAG and is an ASME BNCS member.
Walter Sperko is president of Sperko Engineering Services,
Inc. He is vice chairman of Subcommittee IX and a member of several of its
subgroups, a member ASME B31.9 Building Services Piping Committee, a member
of the B31 Standards Committee and chairman of AWS International Standards
Activities Committee, which represents the US at ISO/TC44,Welding and Allied
Processes. He is a professional engineer registered in several states, and
holds four US patents. He is also chairman of the Pressure Vessel Research
Committee (PVRC).
Rick Swayne is a senior consultant with Reedy Engineering.
He has worked in many different areas of the nuclear power industry for over
20 years. He has experience in design, fabrication, quality assurance, in-service
inspection and repair, replacement, and modification activities.
Bob Wilson is an engineering consultant with TWD Technologies
in Burlington, Ontario, Canada and a former engineering professor at Sheridan
College. He is a member of the B31.1 Power Piping Section Sub Group on Design.
Mr. Wilson has taught piping design and engineering courses for 30 years.
He has been involved with the design, analysis, layout and support of piping
systems since 1963, working with petrochemical, power, steel, mining and processing
companies in North America and Europe. He is the author of a textbook on piping
design and is the former chairman of ASME’s Ontario Section.
Glynn E.Woods, PE, is a practicing piping engineer with
experience in piping design, stress analysis, supports, piping failure analysis,
as well as piping component design, and analysis and testing. For more than
35 years he has been providing piping design expertise in new and operating
petrochemical facilities. With his piping component design, analysis and testing
experience, he has helped piping component manufacturers gain pressure design
code compliance for their product. Mr. Woods is a member of the ASME B31.3
Process Piping Code Committee.
The instructors invited to present the courses are leading professionals
in their field. Should it be necessary, substitutions will be made.