Bart has returned to one of the ways we give back to the profession — volunteering to serve on the American Society of Mechanical Engineer’s codes and standards committee for Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy. These are the pressure vessels, with all of the design issues that entails, that also includes life support and safety. These pressure vessels are used for diving, medical treatment, tunneling, and other applications. Bart has been an active member of the ASME PVHO committee since 2009 and volunteers for a 4-5 days three times a year for the meetings, plus the work between meetings to work out the codes and regulation issues.
While other participants are part of the diving, medical, tunneling, manufacturing, or government oversight aspects of the industry, Bart brings his decades of design, failure analysis, and safety experience as part of the team effort. This expertise led to a recent paper addressing recommendations of how to apply nonlinear Finite Element Analysis to acrylic windows. (http://www.kempereng.com/papers/LimitElim.pdf) The company’s president, Krista Kemper, is his alternate on the various subcommittees except for Acrylic Windows, where Bart is the alternate.
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