The Becht Team

Dave Dewees, PE
Division Manager - Mechanical Engineering
Dave Dewees has worked in the refining, petrochemical, and power generation industries over the last 19 years. Dave’s specialties include:
- Coke drum reliability, data analysis and fatigue
- High temperature hydrogen attack (HTHA) modeling and assessment
- Material property data analysis and allowable stress development
- Advanced material behavior modeling
- Creep and relaxation
- Cyclic plasticity
- Damage mechanics
- Creep-fatigue
- Nonlinear fracture mechanics, including explicit flaw modeling
- Thermal-stress and fatigue analysis
- Weld residual stress modeling
He is a long time member of ASME (Sections I, III and VIII) and API committees, as well as AWS (weld residual stress modeling). Dave lives in the Cleveland, Ohio area. where he works out of the Medina, Ohio office.
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