PVP Division Celebrates Anniversary at Conference in Vancouver

PVP Division Celebrates Anniversary at Conference in Vancouver PVP Division Celebrates Anniversary at Conference in Vancouver PVP Division Celebrates Anniversary at Conference in Vancouver Sept. 9, 2016 (Left to right) Past PVP Division Chairs Roger Reedy and Pedro Marcal, Sam Y. Zamrik, conference advisor, and ASME President Keith Roe celebrate the PVP Division’s 50th anniversary at the 2016 PVP Conference in Vancouver, Canada. More than 1,000 people from nearly 40 countries convened recently at the 2016 Pressure Vessels & Piping (PVP) Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The meeting, which was held from July 17 to 21 at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, featured more than 180 technical sessions including nine panel sessions, as well as a special Electric Power Research Institute Creep-Fatigue Workshop, three technical tutorials and a special tutorial on technical writing and presentations. The ASME Pressure Vessels Piping Division was the primary sponsor of the 2016 PVP Conference, with additional participation by the ASME Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnosis and Prognosis Division (NDPD). The PVP Division celebrated its 50th anniversary at this years conference. To commemorate the milestone, a special anniversary plenary, A Sentimental Journey, the PVP History - A Story of Success, providing a historical overview of the PVP Division, was given by ASME Past President and Honorary Member Sam Zamrik, Professor Emeritus at Penn State University, member of the PVP Division Executive Committee and this years conference advisor. Sarah Patterson, technical director of the Plastics Pipe Institute, presented the conference’s plenary session, “The Development of Polyethylene and the Use in Pressure Pipe Applications.” The anniversary was also observed with an Anniversary Honors Gala and Dinner, the distribution of an anniversary book and pin, panel sessions providing chronological overviews of the Design and Analysis Technical Committee and the Materials and Fabrication Technical Committee, a special presentation for early career engineers covering the history and background of PVP Division activities, and an ice cream social for women engineers, early career engineers and students. Other highlights of the conference included the plenary session, The Development of Polyethylene and the Use in Pressure Pipe Applications, by Sarah Patterson, technical director of the Plastics Pipe Institute, which provided attendees with a review of the history of polyethylene, the processes and various types of polyethylene used for pipe fabrication, and the current uses of polyethylene pipe. Kikuo Kishimoto, president of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, participated in a number of events including the Honors Gala and Dinner, where he provided remarks on the collaborative activities and program ASME and JSME have been involved in throughout the years. ASME President Keith Roe addressing the audience at the plenary session. A number of awards were presented to division members during the Honors Gala and Dinner. Awards included two Dedicated Service Awards, which were presented to ASME Fellow Marina Ruggles-Wrenn, former chair of the PVP Division and the Design Analysis Technical Committee, and ASME Fellow Doug Scarth, current chair of the PVP Division, the Working Group on Pipe Flow Evaluation and the Task Group on Crack Growth Reference Curves. During the Gala, two S.S. Chen PVP Outstanding Service Awards were presented to David Rudland and Darren Stang, and Certificates of Appreciation for Service to the Division were presented to Michael Nitzel, Darren Stang, David Rutland, Kiminobu Hojo and Rick Dixon. Darren Stang was also named an ASME Fellow at the Anniversary Gala. Other honors that were bestowed during the Gala included the Certificate of Appreciation for Outgoing Associate Editors, which was presented to Pierre Mertiny, Marina Ruggles-Wrenn, Chong-Shien Tsai and Osamu Watanabe; the 2015 Editors Choice Award for Contributing to Pressure Vessel Piping Technology in the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, which went to Alan Clayton and Thomas Duffy for their paper Protection Against Local Failure For Impulsively Loaded Vessels; and the 2015 G.E.O. Widera Literature Award for Outstanding Technical Paper in the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, which was presented to Arturs Kalnins, Jurgen Rudolph and Adrian Willuweit for their paper Using the Nonlinear Kinematic Hardening Material Model of Chaboche For Elastic-Plastic Ratcheting Analysis. ASME Executive Director Thomas Loughlin participated in a number of events at the meeting, including the Social Event for Women, Early Career Engineers and Students and the plenary session. ASME President Keith Roe and Executive Director Thomas Loughlin also took part in the conference festivities. Roe was a speaker at the plenary session and the Honors Gala and Dinner, where he also presented a number of awards. Loughlin spoke at the Social Event for Women, Early Career Engineers and Students and at the plenary session. The 2017 PVP Conference has already been scheduled to take place at the Hilton Waikoloa Village in Hawaii from July 16-20, 2017. For more information on that event, visit www.asme.org/events/pvp.