ASME KUWAIT SECTION

(ASME-K)

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Kuwait section was constituted by ASME International on March 15th 1999, as section No. 15, which is part of ASME International  Region XIII. The Kuwait section is a non-profit  based organization established to enhance and promote engineering in general and mechanical engineering in particular, academic and industrial, in the State of Kuwait.

ASME-K goal is to contribute to the benefits and prosperity of mechanical engineers and ASME members in Kuwait and the community in general.

For more information on ASME, visit the following web sites:

 ASMENET - Web site of ASME International: http://www.asme.org/

 ASME Region XIII - International Region: http://www.asme.org/international/regionxiii

 For information on membership: http://www.asme.org/memb/

 ASME Online Jobs Database: http://www.asme.org/international/

 Resume Link: http://www.asme.org/member/benefits/resumelink.html

 The Mechanical Engineering Magazine: http://www.memagazine.org/

 ME TODAY: http://www.asme.org/youngengineers/metoday/

The 2002 / 2003 Executive Committee:

Chairman: Dr. Mohammed Al-Fares

E-mail: alfares@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw

Vice Chairman: Dr. Mohammed Al-Rifaie

E-mail: malrifaie@gmx.net

General Secretary: S. Chanda

E-mail: surchanda@yahoo.com

Treasurer: Gilbert Raghu

E-mail: gilbertraghu@hotmail.com

Membership: Armando Detruz

E-mail: avdetruz61@yahoo.com

Multi-Media & Public Relations: Wael Al-Jasem

E-mail: aljasemw@asme.org

For more information or questions, contact us at ASMEKUWAIT@hotmail.com

UPDATED ON 22 March 2003

Table of Contents

 Executive Corner

 STAY ON TOP

  ASME - Kuwait Donations & Funding

 Local Program

 Great Websites

 Technical Events

 ASME B31.3 Code - History

 Risky Business

 ASME-K Student Section Updates

 Discounts

Executive Corner

Recover an extra hour every day

Yearning for more time? Use these tactics to carve out an hour a day:

  Shorten your paper trail. Discard any junk mail, old credit card receipts and other worthless paper immediately. That can save 15 minutes of the time it takes you to go through your in-box.

  Check e-mail only twice a day. It's more efficient to check and respond to incoming e-mails a few times each day than to constantly monitor your e-mail in-box.

  Combine small tasks. Keep a list of items you want to discuss with a client the next time he or she calls. Collect a few discussion topics before dropping in on a colleague to talk.

  Get a good night's sleep. Tasks can take twice as long if you're tired. After eight hours of sleep, you might find yourself mentally alert for the first time in months … and able to work with surprising efficiency.

- Adopted from "Gain an Hour a Day." Brenda Kearns. Good Housekeeping.

Priority Strategy

Schedule daily focus periods, says professional coach Cheryl Richardson, author of Life Makeovers. "Turn off the ringer on your phone, close down your e-mail, shut your office door and challenge yourself to do one entire job from start to finish," Richardson says.

-Adapter from The Organized Executive Aug-01

STAY ON TOP

Play Hard Fitness

On top of the obvious benefits, high fitness levels boost concentration, make you sharper at work, guarantee great sleep and provide you with bags of energy.

Upper body. This program will boost upper body endurance in just three weeks, says personal trainer Matt Hart.

Take a break and perform half the number of press-ups you can do in one go, resting 60 seconds between sets, until you've done a total of 40. So, if your max in one burst is 20, you'll do four sets of 10 press-ups. Every four days deduct five seconds from your rest interval. After 12 workouts you'll be able to do 40 without any rest, Matt promises.

Go aerobic. To build your lung capacity, work on time and distance, run together and separately, Hart says. For real results, try this weekly program.

Saturday, Go slow and do a 50-minute run so you're never winded walking if necessary.

Monday, Go far and do six half-mile intervals at you're goal pace for 1.5 miles - if your goal pace for 1.5 miles is 10 minutes, run each interval in 3 minutes, 20 seconds. Rest for the same length of time at each interval.

Wednesday, Go up and do six uphill runs at a moderate pace that last 90 seconds each, with two minutes rest between each. Warm down with a gentle 15-minute jog.

ASME - KUWAIT Donations & Funding

Your donations and support will be of great benefit to the local section, to support section activities, and in return benefit the local members and the community. The account information is as follows:
Kuwait Finance House, Bayan Branch 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Kuwait 
Account Number: 21-102-0054552 
Your support will be highly appreciated.

Local Programs

 Please check with Dr. M. Al-Fares at alfares@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw

Great Websites:

Find below links to useful websites:

 http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov - NASA human space flight past and future missions.

 https://online.nbk.com.kw/wolnp/ - National Bank of Kuwait offers free online banking.

 http://www.sebmd.com -Web MD provides consumer-based information on health.

 http://www.gorp.com - Great Outdoor Recreation Pages with great information.

 http://www.mtc.com.kw/ -Mobile TelecommunicatiCo. online services.

 http://www.cookinglight.com - Cooking Light Online gives you the tools to eat healthier.

 http://www.dictionary.com - Dictionary translate text or web pages.

 http://www.kpc.com.kw/ - Information on Kuwait petroleum industry.

 http://www.kuwait-toplist.com/ - A handbook of Kuwait's largest corporations.

Happy surfing

Technical Events

ASME holds technical conferences and professional development courses each year

 September 2 - 6, 2003:

International Design Engineering Conferences: Computers and Information in Engineering Conf.; Design Automation Conf.; Design for Manufacturing Conf.; Flexible Assembly Conf.; International Conf. on Design Theory and Methodology; International Power Transmission and Gearing Conf.; Reliability, Stress Analysis and Failure Conf., Chicago, (212) 591 7793

 November 16 - 21, 2003:

International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition. Sheraton Washington & Omni, Washington, D.C., (212) 591 7037

For more information about conferences and courses, please visit http://www.asme.org/events/

ASME B31.3 Code - History

 Invention on steam engine.

 Early boilers were little more than teakettles where by direct heating of the boiler wall was used to generate steam.

 Steam boilers were valuable source of power but were not safe. From 1895 to 1905 there were 3612 boiler explosions reported with over 7600 people killed.

 In 1907 the State of Massachusetts established the Board of Boiler Rules.

 Soon other stated developed their own rules for boilers.

 Every state had their own boiler legislation, no two were alike. What was prohibited in one state was permitted in another.

 ASME, already recognized as the foremost engineering organization was urged to formulate and recommend a uniform standard specification for the design, construction and operation of steam boilers and pressure vessels.

 In Feb. 1915 Section 1: Power Boilers was submitted to the ASME Council for approval.

 Over the next 11 years the following code section were developed:

 Section III - Locomotive Boilers (1921)

 Section V - Miniature Boilers (1922)

 Section VI - Heating Boilers (1923)

 Section II - Materials and Inspection (1924)

 Section VIII - Unfired Pressure Vessels (1925)

 Section VII - Care and Use of Boilers (1926)

 The code for pressure piping has evolved in much the same manner.

 American Standard Association initiated project B31 in 1926.

 The first edition was published in 1935 as the American Tentative Standard Code for Pressure Piping.

 B31.1 American Standard Code for Pressure Piping was published in 1942.

 B31.1 is the father code to B31.3. It originally was section 3 of B31.1.

 The first edition of the Petroleum Refinery Piping code was published as ASA B31.3 in 1959 and superseded Section 3 of B31.1.

-Adapted from CFPA October 2000

Risky Business

Practitioners say that the techniques for managing industrial risk also protect the bottom line.

One thing that process plants and people have in common is that aging and maintenance go hand in hand. As we get older, we need to make more trips to the doctor to keep up our physical health. Process plants, too, must be inspected and maintained more diligently as they age. Risk analysis methods, along with post-construction standards currently being developed, are evolving tools aimed at helping companies maintain plants better and save money.

Risk analysis is routinely used in the nuclear power industry to identify areas of a plant that have the highest likelihood of failure and pose the most serious consequences. Post-construction standards, a current project of ASME, are focused on what, when, and how to test and inspect. They are specifically intended for the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and power industries. Proponents say that, although risk analysis practices and the post-construction standards are separate developments, they can provide similar benefits in increased reliability and safety of industrial equipment.

Why Risk Matters

Large chemical companies may own and operate well over 1,000 facilities, containing an enormous amount of pressure vessels, valves, and piping. Looking at process risk can help make plants safer, according to Joseph Balkey, chair of ASME's Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis Division. Balkey, who is now retired, was an analyst of process risk and human factors with the Process Safety Group of Union Carbide, now Dow Chemical Co., in Charleston, W.Va.

The traditional watchdog over plant safety is the federal government. The Environmental Protection Agency madates that catastrophic risks be reduced outside the plant's fence line, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration covers workplace risks inside the plant.

But there are other reasons, besides compliance with regulations, to keep risks down, Balkey said. Risk analysis tools are providing companies with economic benefits as well as better safety records, he said.

The Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis Division, which calls itself SERAD, was formed in 1991 by merging ASME's Safety Division and the Risk Analysis Task Force. The merged division covers three major categories: catastrophic loss outside a plant, workplace injuries and fatalities, and reliability - making things work longer and better.

• For the rest of the article please read Mechanical Engineering Page 42-44, July 2002

ASME-K Student Section Updates

"In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the most Merciful"

"...and say: My lord !increase my knowledge."

It is my pleasure to communicate with you through the Kuwait section newsletter. The sections continuous efforts are directed at achieving one of its prime goals of enhancing the academic professionalism of the student. During 2002/2003, ASME student section organized various activities such as field trips, seminars, and acquaintance meetings with faculty members including final project display day, which promote and enhance the technical competency and professional well of our members and students. Our committees are doing the best they can to provide additional service to our members and we are feeling that we can do better. In addition, the last good news in this semester is that our membership increased form 25 to 48. As yoknow, we have taken the responsibility to serve you, but without your help, the section cannot move ahead.

Field trips were to following companies:

1. Kuwait Flour Mills & Bakeries Co.
2. Kuwait Shipbuilding & Repair Yard Company
3. COOLX
4. Arabian Light Metals
5. Gulf Cables

We look forward for the future to have more stability for our student body.

May Allah grant us the ability to realize and achieve what ever we wish for our section.

Rashid S. Rashid

Student Section Committee:

Advisor: Dr. Asad Alebrahim / Dr. M. Al-Rifaie

E-mail: aalebrahim@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw / malrifaie@gmx.net

President: Rashid S. Rashid

E-mail: rashid8m@maktoob.com

Vice President: Adel Al-Shemmari

E-mail: e-adel@maktoob.com

Office Coordinator: Ahmed Dashti

E-mail: ahmed-dashti@maktoob.com

Programs: Saal Ali

E-mail: look_is_me@hotmail.com

Membership: Saad Faleh / Asmahan Al-Shehaima

E-mail: saad_268@hotmail.com / asmahan82@hotmail.com

Public Relations: Bashar Bader / Ashia M. Al-Awadhi

E-mail: bashrdooo@hotmail.com / m_eng_student@hotmail.com

Secretary: Bader Al-Mansour

E-mail: b9881829@yahoo.com

Treasurer: Abdulwahab Al-Naqi

E-mail: love4all1982@hotmail.com

Newsletter: Mohammed Jaafar

E-mail: ghuloun_mohammad@hotmail.com

Office Fax: 481 7254 & E-mail: ASME.KU@Gawab.com

DISCOUNTS

0. Kuwait Regency Palace is offering: (5728000 Ext. 6500)

· 20% off on membership for Al Futouh Health Center.

· 15% off for its restaurants.

2002 / 2003 Executive Committee 

Armando Detruz (Membership) - Wael Al-Jasem (Multi-Media & Public Relations)

Copyright 2002 By the Kuwait Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
 by the publisher, of individual writers.