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Expert in Pressure Vessels, Failure Analysis & Fitness, Piping & Tanks, Piping Standards & Regulations, etc.
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Expert is a member of the Main Committee of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, the Subcommittee on Pressure Vessels (Section VIII), the Subcommittee on Design, the Subgroup on Design for Section VIII He is a member of the Subgroup on Toughness for the Subcommittee on Properties of Materials. He is a member of the Special Working Group on Bolted Flange Joints that reports to the Subcommittee on Design. He is a member of the newly formed Main Committee for the Post-Construction Code and its Subcommittee on Inspection Planning. He is Chairman of the new subcommittee XII formed in February, 1997 to develop a code for DOT-regulated transport tanks such as railway tank cars and highway chemical tankers. Expert has also developed expertise in foreign boiler and pressure vessel codes, especially German pressure vessel codes.
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Expert has designed, analyzed, and performed failure analysis of autoclaves. The design was according to the rules of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Codes.
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Expert has developed rules for design to prevent buckling for non-circular pressure vessels. He currently designs vessels, silos, hoppers, and steel structures to prevent buckling.
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Part of Expert's everyday work involves the evaluation of deformations in piping, vessels, and structures.
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Expert's firm specializes in finite element analysis using the ANSYS and ALGOR programs.
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Expert uses fracture mechanics on a continuous basis in his design evaluation and failure analysis. His ASME Code Committee work involves devising toughness rules for the code based upon fracture mechanics principles.
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Expert has experience in controlling the escape of hazardous chemicals from piping, pumps, valves, and vessels. He is the past Chair for the ASME Code Committee developing design rules for gasketed joints in piping.
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Expert has recently evaluated the failure of two high-temperature vessels operating at 1350F and 900F and provided redesign services for these vessels. In the 1970s, Expert was one of the developers of the elevated temperature design rules now found in the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.
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Expert has experience with the ASME code that provides rules for hyperbaric chambers (the Code for Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy). He uses this code for designing components for hyperbaric vessels.
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Expert has recently completed an exhaustive design review of large, low-pressure storage tanks for refrigerated LPG operating at -44F.
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Expert performs many failure analyses of metal or composite pressure vessels and other mechanical equipment using the services of local materials and metallurgical labs. A recent example involved evaluating the failed weldment on a stainless steel bulb used in a temperature sensing device.
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Expert is President of Pressure Sciences Incorporated, which he founded in January, 1989.
In over seventeen years of operation of Pressure Sciences, Expert has performed a diverse series of engineering projects. Some of these are listed below. For the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, he evaluated the public and environmental safety of a 20 million gallon refrigerated liquefied propane gas storage facility. He evaluated over three hundred riveted and welded API 12A and API 650 oil storage tanks located at a Mobil Oil refinery to the criteria of API Standard 653 using data obtained by inspectors. He developed an engineering specification, suitable for computer programming, for Mobil to evaluate riveted and welded oil storage tanks according to the requirements of API Standard 653. He implemented baseline inspections and evaluations of pressure vessels, piping and storage tanks for several chemical processing plants to help them to comply with the Mechanical Integrity portions of the OSHA Process Safety Requirements. He developed protocols for sampling methods and for information management to effect substantial cost savings.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Dallas, Texas;
Fort Worth, Texas;
Arlington, Texas;
Plano, Texas;
Garland, Texas;
Irving, Texas;
Grand Prairie, Texas;
Mesquite, Texas;
Waco, Texas;
and Carrollton, Texas.
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1967
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PhD
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Mechanical Engineering
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University of Pittsburgh
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1954
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MS
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Mechanical Engineering
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Carnegie-Mellon University
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1953
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BS
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Mechanical Engineering
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Carnegie-Mellon University
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1989 to 2006
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Pressure Sciences, Incorporated
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President
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He is President & Principal Engineer. He is responsible for pressure systems design & analysis & litigation support
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1978 to 1988
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O'Donnell & Associates
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Vice President
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Non-nuclear pressure systems design & analysis, litigation support
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1975 to 1977
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Virginia Erection Corporation
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President
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Surface preparation and coating of steel tanks and structures
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1954 to 1974
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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Engineer, then Engineering Manager
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Design and analysis of nuclear plant components beginning with the nuclear navy and continuing through liquid metal fast breeder reactors and commercial power reactors
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Associations/Societies
He is a Member of ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Standards Committee, Chair of Subcommittee on Transport Tanks, Member Subcommittee on Pressure Vessels, Subgroup on Design, Past Chair of Pittsburgh Section, Member of North Texas Section
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Licenses/Certifications
He is a Registered PE in PA, OH, TX, FL, OR, and NJ
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Awards/Recognition
He received the 2002 J Hall Taylor Medal awarded by the ASME for eminent achievement in the field of pressure vessels and piping. He is a Fellow of ASME
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Publications and Patents Summary
He has 28 publications 14 invention disclosures and two patents
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- National Board Of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors
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- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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1983 to 1988
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NASA-Glenn Research Center
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Recertification of Pressure Vessels and Pressure Systems
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He was responsible for a multi-year project to requalify pressure vessels and pressure systems, some in use since 1939, for safe continued service
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1995 to 1998
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US Department of Transportation
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Improving crash-worthiness of propane trailers
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Led a study using advanced dynamic finite element techniques to improve the crash-worthiness of propane semi-trailers
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2005 to 2007
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US Department of Transportation
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Simplified Rules for Design & Analysis of Transport Tanks
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He is currently working on developing design guidance and simplified rules for design and fatigue evaluation of transport tanks.
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Recent Client Requests:
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Propane expert needed for consulting regarding propane delivery.
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Pressure vessel design expert for consulting on design of cylindrical S&T heat exchangers with non-circular and tangential connections.
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Pressure vessel expert for consulting on R&D pressure vessel certification.
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Lng expert expert for consulting on Pressure Transfer.
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DOT pressure vessel expert for consulting on Pressure vessel testing.
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Expert in LH2 Storage Tank.
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ASME boiler and pressure vessel code expert for consulting on vehicle LNG tank design analysis.
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Expert in composite high pressure hydrostatic vessel construction for consulting on composite pressure vessel design.
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Expert in Natural Gas Piping to assist with codes and design practices.
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Expert needed to troubleshoot SMC defects.
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Expert Witness Experience Summary:
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Expert has provided expert evaluation of failures and patent disputes and has provided deposition or trial testimony in over 20 matters in state and federal courts.
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Recent Litigation Client Requests:
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Trucking equipment expert needed for consulting regarding a trucking equipment accident.
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Reactor vessel expert needed for consulting on a reactor vessel explosion due to exothermic reaction.
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Expert in pressure vessel manufacturing and installation for litigation.
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Silo construction expert witness for consulting on grain silo/bin construction, erection and maintenance.
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Expert for consulting on Oil refinery tank leak in waste water causing personal injury.
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Pressure vessel expert for consulting on trade secret information related to pressure vessels.
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Compressor station expert witnesses for consulting on Compressor Station.
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A few litigation needs include product liability, personal injury, economic loss, intellectual property
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He has successfully marketed the services of Pressure Sciences for over eighteen years.
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Expert has experience locating vendors of:
* Pressure vessels
* Above-ground storage tanks
* Transportation tanks
* Nuclear reactor vessels.
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