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Acknowledgments

This book could not have been written without the help of many people.

Many thanks to Marks Brothers with the help of Nathan Marks and Dean Marleau, and to Harris Thermal with the help of Eric Groenweghe, Arnold Fuchs, Brice Parrow, Josh Thatch, and Jim Nylander for spending their time with the authors to access various pieces of equipment and machinery in their fabrication plants. Thanks is also given to Nooter Construction with the help of Chris Cimorelli, Mike Bytnar, and Steve Meierotto for providing many pressure vessel photographs.

Historical photographs were obtained with the help of Pat Hachanadel and Patrick Wayne of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Zhili Feng of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Nolan O’Brien of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Susumu Terada of Kobe Steel in Japan and David Anderson of Doosan Babcock in England helped with metric unit conversions. Sam Greulich lent his artistic talent to restoring some old photographs and Mike Kelly assisted in obtaining material cost comparisons. Bud Brust provided welding residual stress plots.

Many of the weld symbols in the book were obtained courtesy of the American Welding Society with the help of Peter Potela. Photographs of weld equipment were supplied by CB&I Storage Solutions with the help of Koray Kuscu and Dale Swanson. A photo of a pipe beveler was supplied by E. W. Wachs with the help of Keith Polifka.

Appendix I contains shackle dimensions obtained courtesy of Crosby Corporation with the assistance of Michael Campbell. Bigge Corporation with the assistance of Randy Smith supplied a photo of a heavy transporter.

Lane Barnholtz of Clemco and Gavin Gooden of Blast One gave permission for publishing a blast room and a paint room photo, respectively.

Special thanks are given to Gabriella Robles of Wiley and Mary Grace Stefanchik of ASME for their expert help, without which this book would not have been possible.