ZMD founder has more than thirty years experience which covers a broad
range of applications to prevent failure of critical components and determine
the remaining useful life for in-service structural components. This experience
includes advanced work relevant to pressure vessels & piping components in
nuclear and fossil power plants, oil & gas transmission pipelines, aerospace,
defense, transportation, and petroleum industries. ZMD founder has
performed work on numerous projects under contract or subcontract from
federal agencies and companies such as US DOE-DP, DOE-SRS, DOT, EPRI,
NRC, NASA (Ames, Marshall), NIST, WRALC, NUS, DuPont, Ontario Hydro, EDF
France, EG&G, ORNL, and Virginia Power. Examples of applications include:
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  • Leak-Before-Break (LBB) Criteria and Analysis Method Development for
    Fossil & Nuclear Piping and Oil & Gas pipelines similar to ASME Code
  • Leak-Before-Rupture Analysis Method Development for Oil & Gas
    pipelines similar to ASME Code
  • Oil & Gas Pipeline Fatigue Life Methodology and Integrity Management;
    Operating pressure uprating, special exemption related to pipeline
    integrity issues
  • Ductile Fracture Handbook, Vols. I through 3
  • Development of Section XI, ASME Code Methods and Procedures for
    Flaw Evaluation of Ferritic and Stainless Steel Piping and Reactor
    Pressure Vessels With Low-Upper-Shelf Toughness
  • Development of Section XI, ASME Code Methods and Procedures for
    Flaw Evaluation of Reactor Pressure Vessels With Low-Upper-Shelf
    Toughness
  • Transient Thermal, Stress, and Ductile Fracture Mechanics Analyses of
    Pressure Vessels
  • Stress Corrosion Cracking Evaluation of Stainless Steel Piping and
    Pressure Tanks
  • Evaluation of Large Scale Fracture Experiments; Constraint Effects;
    Specimen vs. Component Ductile Tearing Resistance
  • Flaw Evaluation of a Twelve-Foot Wind Tunnel
  • Fatigue Crack Growth Life Evaluation of Military Helicopter Main Rotor
    Blades
  • Fracture Mechanics Evaluation of Generator Rotor
  • Damage Tolerance Evaluation of Heat exchanger Tubes
  • Fracture Tolerance Evaluation of Solid Rocket Booster, Wing Elevon and
    Main Engine Servoactuator Components of the Space Shuttle Orbiter.