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This two-volume compendium dedication is not the first recognition

of the achievements of Bernard F. Langer and William E.


Cooper. The Bernard F. Langer Nuclear Codes and Standards
Award, established in 1977, provides a posthumous and lasting
tribute to one of these contributors, an intellectual giant who was
instrumental in providing the leadership and statesmanship that
was essential to the creation of construction rules for nuclear vessels
and related equipment. William E. Cooper, the first recipient
of the Bernard F. Langer Nuclear Codes and Standards Award, is
another intellectual giant instrumental in the creation of the modern
ASME Code. In addition, Dr. Cooper acted in a number of
ASME Codes and Standards leadership positions. It was my pleasure
to join many of my colleagues in April 2001 for the presentation
to Dr. Cooper of the ASME President's Award from the 120th
President of ASME International, William A. Weiblen. That most
prestigious award recognized a lifetime of achievement in ASME
and, in particular, in ASME Code activities.
Bernie Langer and Bill Cooper were essential in both the development
of the modern ASME Code and in the creation of the
forums for technical information exchange that support the Code
rules. The publication of these two volumes by ASME International
is a legacy of that duality. These volumes continue a long
and productive relationship between the development of the modern
ASME Code and the technical exchanges on pressure vessel
and piping technology sponsored by the ASME Pressure Vessels
and Piping Technical Division. This process of technical information
exchange, through conference paper and panel presentations,
and through refereed paper publication, is an essential step in the
reduction to standard practice, standard practice that is eventually
embodied in the rules of the ASME Code. Information exchange
at technical conferences and in technical publications goes hand
in hand with the deliberations of ASME Code bodies.
This relationship goes back to the pivotal events leading up to
the development of the modern ASME Code — the appointment
of the Special Committee to Review Code Stress Basis in the late
1950s. The principles formulated by that group became the basis
for Section III and Section VIII, Division 2 (design by analysis)
of the Code. These basic principles were published by ASME in
1968 under the title “Criteria of the ASME Boiler and Pressure
Vessel Code for Design by Analysis in Sections III and VIII,
Division 2.” At the same time that the work of the Special
Committee to Review Code Stress Basis was nearing fruition,
leaders in the field of pressure vessel design, including Bernie
Langer and Bill Cooper, recognized that an improved forum for
fundamental technical information exchange was needed. The
need eventually led to the formation of an ASME technical division,
the Pressure Vessel and Piping (PVP) Division, in 1966.
Many of us who became involved in the PVP Division in the
early years were drafted by the leaders in the field to help prepare
a compendium of the technical information on pressure vessel
and piping technology. The Decade of Progress volumes, as
they were known then, were published by ASME in the early
1970s, covering the most significant contributions to pressure
vessel and piping design and analysis; materials and fabrication;
and operations, applications, and components. The Decade of
Progress volumes should be considered the antecedents of these
two volumes. Both sets of volumes should be considered as integral
parts of the technical literature supporting the Code and the
Criteria document.
The PVP Division has acted with great vigor over the years to
continue to provide the technical forums needed to support
improvements in the modern ASME Code. This year marks the
Division's 35th anniversary. When I first became involved in PVP
Division activities, the second year had just been completed, with
Vito Salerno as the second Chair of the Division Executive Committee.
Dana Young had been the first Chair, during 1966–1967,
and Gunther Eschenbrenner was ready to become the third Chair,
for the 1968–1969 year. Planning was well underway for the first
International Conference on Pressure Vessel Technology
(ICPVT), scheduled for Delft, the Netherlands, in the following
year. The plan was to hold such an international conference every
four years, with the Secretariat rotating between Europe (1969),
the United States (San Antonio, 1973), and Asia (Tokyo, 1977).
Nine of these international conferences have now been held, the
most recent in Sydney, Australia, in April 2000.
At the same time, initial planning for the First U.S. National
Congress on Pressure Vessels and Piping, to be held every four
years in the United States, was also underway. It was my privilege
to be the Technical Program Chair for the Second U.S. National
Congress on PVP in 1975 in San Francisco, and the Conference
Chair for the Third U.S. National Congress on PVP in 1979, also
in San Francisco. In addition, the activity within the PVP Division
was such that we cosponsored ASME technical conferences
with the Materials Division, the Nuclear Engineering Division,
and the Petroleum Division in alternate years. This has since led
to the annual PVP Conference, the most recent being PVP 2001
in Atlanta, Georgia, in July 2001.
The paper flow from the technical conferences and the network
of contributors for the Decade of Progress volumes eventually led
to the creation of the ASME Transactions Journal of Pressure
Vessel Technology in late 1973, only seven years after formation
of the Pressure Vessel and Piping Technical Division. Dr. Irwin
Berman was its first Senior Technical Editor, with two Technical
Editors representing the PVP Division and the Petroleum Division.
Once again, I consider it a privilege to have been selected as

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