Code Committees Info

Becht holds or has held over 160 positions in Codes and Standards Committees, and has chaired many of them.

ASME COMMITTEES

ASME Past President
Board of Governors – Former Members
Board on New Development – Former Chair
Board on Hearings and Appeals – Former Chair
Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards – Former Member, Former Chair
Board on Pressure Technology Codes and Standards – Current Member, Former Chair, Vice-Chair & Members
Board on International Standards (Inactive Committee) – Former Member
Board on Council Operations – Former Chairs
Council on Standards and Certification – Former Chairs & Sr. VP’s and Member

ASME POST CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS

Post Construction Standards Committee – Current Chair, Former Chairs & Vice-Chairs
Post Construction Executive Committee – Current Members, Former Chairs & Vice-Chairs
Subcommittee on Repair and Testing – Founding Chair, Current Member, Former Chair & Members
Subcommittee on Inspection Planning – Current Contributing Member
Subcommittee on Flange Joint Assembly – Founding Chair, Current Contributing Member, Former Chair
Subcommittee on Flaw Evaluation – Former Member

ASME PIPING AND COMPONENT CODES AND STANDARDS

B31, Code for Pressure Piping, Standards Committee – Current Members, Former Chair
B31, Code for Pressure Piping, Executive Committee – Current & Former Members
B31, Code for Pressure Piping, Mechanical Design Committee – Current Vice-Chair & Member, Former Vice-Chair
B31, Code for Pressure Piping, Materials Technical Committee – Current Chair
B31.1 Power Piping Section Committee – Current Member
B31.3, Process Piping Section Committee – Current Members, Former Chairs
B31.12 Hydrogen Piping and Pipelines Section Committee – Current Members
B31.1 Subgroup on Materials – Current Member
B31.3 Subgroup on High Pressure Piping – Former Chair
B31.3 Subgroup on Design – Current & Former Members
B16 Standardization of Valves, Flanges, Fittings, Gaskets Standards Committee – Current Member
B16 Subcommittee C – Steel Flanges and Flanged Fittings – Current Member, Former Chair
B16 Subcommittees on fittings, gaskets, copper components and valves – Current Member

ASME BOILER AND PRESSURE VESSEL CODE COMMITTEES

Committee on Pressure Vessels (BPV VIII) – Former Chair & Members, Former Members
Subgroup on Design (BPV VIII) – Current Members, Former Chair & Members
Subgroup on General Requirements (BPV VIII) – Current Member, Former Chair
Subgroup on High Pressure Vessels (Section VIII, Div 3) – Current Member, Former Chair
Subgroup on Heat Transfer Equipment (BPV VIII) – Current Member, Former Chair
Subgroup on Toughness (BPV II & VIII) – Current Member
Special Committee on Interpretations (BPV-VIII) – Current Member
Task Group on Impulsively Loaded Vessels (BPV VIII) – Current Member
Working Group on Design-By-Analysis (BPV VIII) – Current Members
Subgroup on External Pressure (BPV II) – Current Vice-Chair
Technical Oversight Management Committee (former Main Committee) – Current & Former Members
Committee on Transport Tanks (BPV XII) – Former Member
Committee on Construction of Nuclear Facility Components (BPV III) – Current Member & Former Vice-Chair
Standards Committee on Qualification of Mechanical Equipment (BPV III) – Former Member
Subgroup on General Requirements (BPV III) – Current & Former Members
Subcommittee on Design (III) – Current Member, Former Member & Chair
Subgroup on Component Design (III) – Current Member & Contributing Member, Former Member, Former Chair
Subgroup on Elevated Temperature Design (BPV III) – Current Member, Former Chair
Working Group on Piping (BPV III) – Current Chair, Former Chairs, Vice-Chair & Members
Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants – Subcommittee on Piping (BPV III) – Current Member
Task Group Buried Components Inspection and Testing (BPV (XI) – Former Member
Working Group on Supports (BPV III) – Current Member and Former Chair & Member
Executive Committee on Strategy and Project Management (BPV III) – Former Chair
Special Working Group on Editing and Review (BPV III) – Current Member
Project Team on Hydrogen Tanks – Current Member
Special Committee on Interpretations (BPV III) – Former Chair
Special Working Group on High Density Polyethylene Piping (SC III) – Current Member
Subcommittee on Accreditation – Former Member-Alternate
Task Group on Evaluation of Beyond Design Basis Events (BPV XI) – Current Member
Seismic Design Steering Committee (BPV III) – Secretary
Task Group on Evaluation Procedures for Degraded Buried Pipe – Founding and Current Member

ASME BOILER AND PRESSURE VESSEL CODE COMMITTEES (Inactive Committees)

Subcommittee VIII, Pressure Vessels (Inactive Committee) – Former Vice-Chair & Members
Design and Analysis Committee (Inactive Committee) – Former Chairs & Members
Subgroup on Design Analysis (BPV III & VIII) (Inactive Committee) – Former Chairs & Members
Special Working Group on High-Pressure Vessels, Section VIII, Div 3 (Inactive Committee) – Former Chair
Subcommittee on Design – (Inactive Committee) – Former Members
Subgroup on Design SC-VIII (Inactive Committee) – Former Chair & Members
Subgroup on Design/Analysis (SC-D) (Inactive Committee) – Former Chair & Members

ASME/API

ASME/API Joint Fitness-for-Service Committee (API 579/ASME FFS-1) – Current Members, Former Vice-Chairs & other Members
- Chair of Part 7 Hydrogen Blistering

API / COMMITTEE ON REFINERY EQUIPMENT

Subcommittee on Corrosion and Materials – Current Members
- Task Group on API 941 High-Temperature Hydrogen Attack – Current Members and technical editor for API 941 TBD
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- Task Group on API 939-C Sulfidation – Author and Current Vice Chairman
- Task Group on API 945 Amine Cracking – Current Chairman
- Task Group on API 970 CCD/IOW – Current Members and Vice-Chairman
- Task Group on API 584 IOW’s- Member
- Task Group on API 571 Refining Damage Mechanisms – Current Chair and Former Chair
- Task Group on API 934 Heavy Wall Vessels – Members
  - Part F) Development of a Guidance Document for Establishing Minimum Pressurization Temperatures for Heavy Wall Reactors in Hydrogen Service – Technical Editor and Current Member
  - Part G) Coking Drums in Delayed Coking Units – Technical Editor and Member
  - Parts H& I Hydrotreater reactors (Maintenance and inspection) – Technical Editor and Current Member
- Task Group on API 580/581 RBI Member
  - Chair of API 581 and Vice-Chair of API 580
Subcommittee on Piping – Former Vice-Chair
Task group on Refractory – Former Chair
Subcommittee on Above Ground Storage Tanks – Former Member
Subcommittee on Heat Transfer Equipment – Former Chair
- Task Group on Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers – Former Member
Task Group on Air Cooled Heat Exchangers – Former Member
API Committee on Refining Equipment – Former Chair
Subcommittee on Instruments and Control Systems (SOICS)
- API RP-551 Process Measurement
- API RP-552 Signal Transmission.
- ISA 5.1 Instrumentation Symbols and Identification

ASCE

ASCE Dynamic Analysis of Nuclear Structures (DANS) Committee – Vice Chair
Working Group on Revision of ASCE Standard 4 Seismic Analysis of Safety-Related Nuclear Structures – Voting Member
Working Group on Revision of ASCE Standard 43, Seismic Design Criteria for Structures, Systems, and Components in Nuclear Facilities – Voting Member
ASCE Nuclear Standards Committee – Vice Chair

ADDITIONAL COMMITTEE INVOLVEMENT

MTI – Board of Directors – Current Member
MTI – Knowledge Management Project Development Committee – Current Chair
MTI – Project on the High-Temperature Behavior of Weld Joints in Cast 20Cr-32Ni-Nb Alloys – Co-Champion
NACE STG 34 Refining Corrosion – Current Members
- SP-0296 Wet H2S Cracking Inspection – Vice Chair
- Publication 34103 Sulfidation Corrosion – Vice Chair
- TG 510: Joint API/NACE Advisory Committee – API 751 Safe Operation of HF Alkylation Units – Corrosion and Materials Selection – Current Member
- NACE TG 358: Hydrofluoric Acid and Hydrogen Fluoride: Review of NACE Publication 5A171 – Member
AWS A5 (Filler Metals) Committee – Source for ASME IIC – Current Member
ASTM F-17, Plastic Piping Systems Main Committee – Current Member
ASTM Standards and Certification Board of Directors – Current Member, Former Chair
ASTM Committees CO3, C-16, and D-20.23 – Current Member
ISA – The International Society for Measurement & Control, member of SP 93, Sealing Technologies Committee – Former Member
Materials Technology Institute’s Technical Advisory Council Committee – Current Member
Materials Technology Institute, Evaluation of Gaskets Committee – Current Member
US TAG for ISO/TC 153/SC 1 – Valve Design, Manufacturing, Marking and Testing – Current Member
US TAG for ISO/TC 5/SC 10 – Metallic Flanges and Their Joints – Current Member
US TAG for ISO TC 197 – Hydrogen Technologies – Current Member
US TAG for ISO TC 11 – Boilers and Pressure Vessels – Current Member
Joint ASME – IEEE Seismic Qualification Committee – Former Chair
ASME – ASCE Joint Task Group on Buried Piping – Founding & Current Chair
Process/Industry Practices (PIP): Coatings and Insulation – Former Function Team Leader
Process Industry Practices (PIP): Piping – Former Member
Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC): Standards Review Committee – Former Member
US DOE Hydrogen Safety Panel – Current Member
The Materials Properties Council – Former Member
Section III, SG on General Requirements – Current Member
Section III, SWG on Polyethylene Pipe (Inactive Committee) – Former Member
Section III, Working Group on Piping Design (Inactive Committee) – Former Member
PVRC Committee on Continuing Operation of Equipment – Former Chair
ASME Hydrogen Steering Committee (Inactive Committee) – Former Chair
ASME High-Pressure Systems Committee – Former Vice-Chair & Member
ASME Task Group on Risk Analysis for the Critical Assets Protection Initiative – Former Chair & Member
ASME BPTCS Ad Hoc Task Group on Incorporation of Risk-Based Principles into Pressure Technology Codes and Standards (Inactive) – Former Chair & Member
ASME BPTCS Task Group on Risk-Based Design and Inspection – Current Member
PVP Design and Analysis Committee – Current Members, Former Chair
PVP Division Leadership Team – Current Member
Working Group Duties and Responsibilities (SGGR-BPVIII) – Current Member
QAI-1 Qualification for Authorized Inspection – Former Chair
Subcommittee on Accreditation of Authorized Inspection Agencies – Current Member-Alternate
National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) – Vice President, Board of Directors
AISC TC 11 Nuclear Facilities Design – Member
The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining – Fellow