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PRESSURE VESSEL; PRESSURE PIPING SYSTEM. Expert has designed hundreds of pressure vessels for the petroleum, chemical, nuclear, and other industries. He is an acknowledged expert in the design, material selection, welding, and quality assurance in this area.

ASME BOILER AND PRESSURE VESSEL CODE; ASME PRESSURE PIPING CODE. Expert has worked with ASME codes and standards since 1956 and has served on the code committees since 1968. He has summarized all of the changes to these codes since 1952. He has a complete library of boiler and piping codes and a database containing descriptions of all changes as far back as 1950 and all ASME Code Interpretations since they were published in 1977.

PRESSURE VESSEL QUALITY CONTROL. Expert is an expert in practical quality assurance. He has assisted many companies to become accredited by ASME and has also been an outspoken critic of current practices which rely on documentation and procedures rather than on results, product compliance, and controlled costs. The US NRC and DOE have based their new quality approach on his guidelines.

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT OPERATION. A member of the nuclear code committee since 1968, Expert has worked at most nuclear sites in the US and has consulted at plants in South America, Europe, and Asia. He has been a prime mover in many successful efforts to reduce costs of repairs, modifications, and operations. Expert is acknowledged as an expert in structural design, welding, quality assurance, codes and standards, nuclear components, pressure vessels and piping, and ASME material certification, traceability, and verification. He has testified as an expert witness in lawsuits involving as much as $1 billion.

LAYER VESSEL DESIGN; LAYER VESSEL CONSTRUCTION. Expert has designed hundreds of layer vessels while at CBI that were built to withstand pressures from 2000 to 15,000 psi. He worked closely with materials, welding, and construction details.

WELDING DESIGN. Expert has worked with welded structures for 40 years, having responsibility for design, application, and examination. He has written new criteria for welding and inspection of welding and has testified in Federal court on welding issues.

Expert wrote some of the first manufacturing quality assurance programs in 1965. Since that time he has written ASME Code rules on the subject and has been a critic of the implementation of such programs for their ineffectiveness and outrageous costs.

Expert has consulted on the use of and understanding ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. He has consulted on design, materiale, welding, fabrication, non-destructive examination, testing, and quality control/assurance.