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Robert D. Blevins, Ph.D., is a member of the ASME Special Hugo Julien, P.Eng began his career in pressure equipment and
Working Group on Structural Dynamics and the Pressure Vessel storage tanks as designer and quality manager at HC Vidal Ltd.,
Research Council’s Committee on Dynamic Analysis of Pressure and later as quality systems manager at Xebec, Inc. Since 2007, he
Components. Blevins has more than 25 years’ experience in flow- has served as mechanical integrity advisor at GCM Consultants. An
induced vibration. He received his Institute of Technology and is a active ASME/CSA member, he is also a certified API 510, API 570,
frequent consultant to government and industry. He is the author of API 571 and CSA W178.2 Level II (CSA B31.3, ASME W47.1/W59, and
three books and over 30 papers on fluid flow, structural dynamics, CSA Z662) inspector. Julien graduated from l’Ecole Polytechnique
and flow induced vibration. de Montréal with a degree in mechanical engineering, specialising in
manufacturing.
François Claeys is principal mechanical engineer at Tractebel
Engineering S.A., which is a member of GDF SUEZ group. He Robert Kauer (Dipl.-Ing., Dr.-Ing.) received his engineering degree
has 25 years’ experience in piping and support analysis, seismic at the Technische Universität of München in 1991. Since earning his
qualification, piping vibrations, In-service inspection as well as repair degrees, he has been working in the field of pressure vessel and
and replacement activities for nuclear, power and industrial utilities. piping technology, starting as an R&D engineer at the Institute of
He has extensive experience in Class 1 piping fatigue analysis Pressure Vessel and Piping Design, Experimental Stress Analysis
and dynamic analysis in various projects like seismic revaluation, and Plant Engineering in Munich. Currently, Dr. Kauer is responsible
snubber education programme and primary circuit re-evaluation for Consulting Projects for the Oil & Gas, the Chemical and the
after SGR. Claeys is a member of the piping design working group of Power Plant Industry related to Fitness for Service, Asset Integrity
ASME Section III Committee. He is also a Seismic Qualification Utility and Process Safety Excellence at TÜV SÜD Industry Service in
Group (SQUG) specialist. Munich. Throughout his service at TÜV SÜD Dr. Kauer has handled
various national and international projects related to design, Fitness-
Manfred Dilly is an engineer with over 39 years’ experience at for-Service, structural integrity and inspection program development
KSB, a wide acting pump manufacturer, including long term work for nuclear and non-nuclear applications in pressure vessel and
with ASME codes and standards, Core Technology KTA and piping technology. He is a member of various national and European
Pressure Equipment Directive. Dilly was integrally involved in the committees.
preparation and performance of 18 nuclear ASME surveys at KSB
Frankenthal and Pegnitz, and introduced QA systems at their India, David E. Lay, BA, MBA, is the director of training for Hytorc, the
COURSE INSTRUCTORS
Frankenthal, and Brazil locations, and was a manager within the largest manufacturer of hydraulic bolting tools. He has been involved
quality department until his retirement. He still works part time as in teaching both the theoretical and practical aspects of heavy
a consultant. He represents KSB in the ASME Group of Interested industrial bolting since 1992, and has been involved in corporate
Experts, managed by ASME delegate Horst Michael. training for over 25 years. Lay is the author of several multimedia
courses that have been adopted as teaching standards for union
Michael Frohnert, Dipl.-Ing, is an Authorized Inspector Supervisor apprentice programmes in the millwright and pipefitter trades
and an Authorised Nuclear Inspector for CIS GmbH. Currently across North America. He is an affiliate member of ASME and
he manages the company’s design approval department, where brings a practical view of complex problems that can be understood
his main focus is preparing and reviewing design calculations in by workers and non-engineers, yet withstands the rigours of
accordance with the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code – as quantitative review. Lay is a member of ASME’s Post-Construction
well as other international codes and standards – for the plant Standards Committee and Bolted Flange Joint Subcommittee, which
and mechanical engineering industries. Frohnert commenced his recently created the PCC-1-2010 “Guidelines for Pressure Vessel
professional career at ONE/TÜV/BV in Essen, Germany, where he Boundary Bolted Flange Joint Assembly” document.
worked as a design engineer, inspector, and seminar instructor.
While at ONE/TÜV/BV he earned his qualification as an ASME Mohammad A. Malek, Ph.D., P.E., is an internationally recognised
Authorised Inspector, eventually becoming an experienced boiler and pressure vessel expert with over 30 years’ experience
Authorised Inspector Supervisor. He also holds a National Board in design, construction, installation, operation, maintenance,
endorsement as Authorized Nuclear Inspector. His in-depth inspection, and repair of boilers and pressure vessels. Currently he is
involvement in the practical application of the ASME design rules is a pressure systems manager and subject matter expert at Stanford
a beneficial and valuable feature of his seminar work. Mr. Frohnert University – SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, California.
represents CIS GmbH in the ASME Group of Interested Experts Prior to that Malek worked for Kellogg Brown and Root as a senior
managed by the ASME Delegate of Germany. technical advisor, for Mustang Engineering as a senior mechanical
engineer and for the states of Florida and Maine as chief boiler
Jeff Henry has worked in the power industry for more than 35 inspector. He was adjunct professor at the FAMU-FSU College of
years, where his activities have focused on the elevated temperature Engineering, Tallahassee, Florida from 2005-2007. Malek has served
behaviour of materials, failure analysis, condition assessment on various ASME committees including conference committee, CSD-
and welding metallurgy. He is active on several ASME Boiler and 1 committee and QFO committee, and has been an ASME instructor
Pressure Vessel Code technical committees, and is current chair for boiler and pressure vessel courses since 2001. Malek has
of BPV II as well as the chair of the Task Group on Creep Strength authored several books on boiler and pressure vessel technology,
Enhanced Ferritic Steels. including Power Boiler Design, Inspection, and Repair (McGraw-
Hill, 2004), Pressure Relief Devices (McGraw Hill, 2005) and Heating
Dyke Hicks joined Kiefner in 2015 after over six years with Koch Boiler Operator’s Manual (McGraw Hill, 2006).
Pipeline LLC and 13 years with Baker Hughes. His career began
working in the energy sector recording and interpreting information
from oil and gas wells on land and offshore. He then moved into the
field of pipeline integrity helping to develop a new inspection system
for difficult pipelines. Mr. Hicks was involved in tool design, data
interpretation and the managing the U.S. operations of this division.
He then moved to Koch Pipeline LLC and worked within the integrity
group. There, Mr. Hicks managed the daily integrity operations
and focused on some of the more challenging problems pipeline
operators face. He also took a field assignment to help develop
project managers. Mr. Hicks is a current member of ASME. He
earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University
and his B.S. Mathematics/Economics from the University of Iowa.
Mr. Hicks has authored several papers regarding pipeline integrity.

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