The coordinating committee of the SPE#3 (CC-SPE) shall consist of:
Mr. Lala Ram Bishnoi
Mr. Lala Ram Bishnoi currently leads the Siting & Structural Engineering Division for the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board. He earned a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering in 1982. Mr. Bishnoi’s areas of expertise include: (1) Structural Analysis & Design; (2) Structural Dynamics, Seismic Qualification; (3) CFD, Particle Transport; (4) Concrete technology, Numerical simulation of concrete material; (5) Containment Structural Behaviour, Analysis and Testing; (4) Siting and External Events with respect to Nuclear Facilities; and (5) Ageing Management and Durability of Concrete/steel Structures.
Mr. Herman L. Graves III, P.E.
Mr. Graves works for U.S. NRC and is the Round-Robin Analysis on Containment Performance Project Manager. He has contributed to reinforced and prestressed concrete and anchorage to concrete research. He has developed and managed research programs in the areas of containment performance, seismic performance of anchorages and in the nondestructive inspection and evaluation of degraded concrete structures and soil-structure interaction. The findings of research programs managed by Mr. Graves are referenced in several US Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulatory guides and in ACI 349, Appendix B, “Anchoring to Concrete,” and ACI 349.3R, “Evaluation of Existing Nuclear Safety-Related Concrete Structures,” codes. He has contributed to American Concrete Institute (ACI) and other technical journals as an author, reviewer and has served for over twenty years as a member of several ACI and American Society of Mechanical Engineers technical committees. Mr. Graves received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering (BSCE) in 1975, followed by his Masters degree in Structural Engineering in 1980, from Howard University. He was named a Fellow of ACI in 2008 and is a registered Professional Engineer in Washington, DC.
Ms. Madhumita Sircar, P.E.
Ms. Sircar works for U.S. NRC and is the Project Manager for phase 2 of Round-Robin Analysis on Containment Performance Project. She is also Project Manager for OECD/NEA Round Robin Study on Posttensioned Concrete Containment. Ms. Sircar is Technical Lead for research project for Inservice Inspection of Posttensioned Containment both grouted and ungrouted tendons for new generation plants. She is currently revising Regulatory Guides for Containment Structures and other Safety Related Nuclear Structures. She also serves in ACI 349 committee. She worked in the licensing areas of life extension of existing Nuclear Power Plants and also Uranium Processing Facility. Before joining NRC, Ms. Sircar worked in the power industry for 20+ years where she performed FEM analysis and design of various large coal power plants and nuclear power plants and worked as Technical Lead and Engineering Group Supervisor in Bechtel. Ms. Sircar received her Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University in India, and Masters Degree in Structural Engineering from University of Maryland. She is a registered Professional Engineer in Commonwealth of Virginia.
Mr. Robert Dameron, P.E.
Director of Structures with Moffatt & Nichol. Mr. Dameron’s 30 years in consulting span the fields of complex structure analysis and structure design. He is a widely recognized expert in finite element analysis, yet also has extensive practical design experience. He has performed finite element analysis especially for bridges, buildings, and nuclear power plant structures subjected to earthquake and beyond-design basis loadings. For 24 years, Dameron has pioneered methods of finite element modeling for reinforced concrete and steel structure components, particularly emphasizing prediction of failure modes and ductility capacities. He participated in the development of the ANACAP concrete material model (by ANATECH Corp.) for nonlinear response calculations and was the lead analyst for the analysis of the 1:6-scale RCCV model tested at Sandia, the 1:10-scale (Sizewell-B) PCCV model tested in the U.K. and, most recently, was the lead analyst for the 1:4-scale NUPEC/NRC PCCV Model test. He has authored over 100 papers and reports on the modeling and analysis of large structures subjected to extreme loadings, and he was the co-author, with Mr. Hessheimer, of NUREG/CR-6906
Dr. Lili Akin (Member Secretary)
Senior Member of the Technical Staff at SNL in the Structural Integrity and Licensing Support Department. She received her PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue University in 2006 with an emphasis on seismic response of structures. Since joining Sandia in 2006, Dr. Akin has worked on projects involving the response of storage and transportation casks to a variety of environments ranging from seismic to impact. Dr. Akin worked at the NRC on an Interagency Personnel Assignment (IPA) from June through December 2008. During this IPA she was responsible for assisting in the analysis of the CONSTOR (Japanese cask). She is currently supporting research efforts related to the use of high performance concrete in, and non-destructive examination of concrete structures used in the nuclear power industry, and the analysis of space vehicles subject to high speed impact.
Mr. Michael Hessheimer (Advisor to the CC-SPE)
Manager for the Mechanical Environments Department in the Engineering Sciences Center at SNL. He received his MS degree in Civil Engineering in 1976 and has over 33 years experience managing engineering research and experimental programs. He has managed an engineering group responsible for the analysis and design of nuclear containment and other essential structures. Mr. Hessheimer has also managed an engineering department responsible for design and analysis of civil and military structures subjected to extreme loadings ranging from weapons effects to earthquakes. He managed the NUPEC/NRC Cooperative Containment Program and co-authored NUREG/CR-6906.