Past President Bob Sims Joins Panel of Pressure Technology and Standards MasterClass Instructors

July 8, 2016

J. Robert (Bob) Sims, former president of ASME, has joined ASME Training & Development’s distinguished panel of ASME Code authorities and authors who will teach a series of ASME MasterClass courses on Pressure Vessels and Piping Systems. Sims will teach the new MasterClass “Fracture Mechanics and Other Methods for Fatigue and Fracture Analysis of Pressure Equipment,” which will launch this October during ASME Pressure Technology and Standards MasterClass Training Week in Houston, Texas.

ASME MasterClass courses are practical training sessions for experienced professionals that emphasize learning through the discussion of real-world case studies and practical applications. MasterClass instructors, considered to be elite in their fields of expertise, lead in-depth sessions that address current issues and best practices to inspire interactive discussions and group knowledge-sharing.

J. Robert Sims

Sims, an ASME Fellow who served as ASME president in 2014-2015, is a world-renowned expert in risk-based technologies, high-pressure equipment, mechanical integrity evaluation and Fitness-For-Service analysis. Sims’ two-day MasterClass will focus on the fracture mechanics method of fatigue analysis of pressure equipment. The course, which will focus on practical applications instead of theory, is intended for engineers who work for pressure vessel manufacturers or firms that design, specify, procure or are responsible for the inspection, maintenance or repair of pressure equipment in cyclic service.

With the new course, Sims joins a panel of peer experts who will be teaching courses during the ASME Pressure Technology and Standards MasterClass Training Week event. These experts include David Osage, lead author for Design by Analysis Requirements in ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Section VIII, Div. 2 – Alternative Rules, who teaches a course of the same title; Don Frikken, past chair of  the ASME Process Piping Code Committee, who teaches “Piping Failures: Causes and Remedies”; Jim Meyer, current chair of the ASME Process Piping Code Committee, the instructor for “Piping Flexibility Analysis”; and Tony Paulin, who teaches “Static, Elastic Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Approaches to Address ASME Section VIII Div. 2, Part 5 Design Requirements.” Other experts of equal caliber will be teaching courses at the Pressure Technology and Standards MasterClass program in Houston.

In addition to the Houston event, ASME Training & Development will also hold a similar program from Oct. 17 to 21 in Barcelona, Spain. For more information on these Training Weeks events, or to register, visit http://go.asme.org/pressuretechtraining or contact Jennifer Delda, program/business manager, at deldaj@asme.org.