Mr. Gross has over 30 years of experience in the design and analysis of equipment for use in nuclear facilities, including extensive experience in equipment operation and troubleshooting in nuclear power plant environments. He has a strong background in stress analysis, with an emphasis on finite element analysis (FEA) of systems with complex loadings and/or material response, such as welding residual stress modeling. Mr. Gross is experienced in piping design to the B31-series Codes and in pressure vessel design to the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Sections III and VIII.

Mr. Gross has extensive experience leading applied research programs related to the performance of pressure vessel and piping materials used in the nuclear industry. These programs have investigated the response of alternative materials to extreme environments and the dynamic response of piping systems to transient loading. This work has included 15 years of continuous design and analysis support for the Hanford waste treatment plant, where Mr. Gross has served as a key technical contributor to the hydrogen piping and ancillary vessels (HPAV) project. This body of work has included over 70 calculations and technical position papers, and has advanced the state of the art in the understanding and analysis of the response of piping systems and components to the effects of internal deflagration, detonation, and deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT). Mr. Gross has continued to work closely with the piping design group at Hanford to develop techniques to apply ANSYS-based modeling methods to the requirements of Bechtel’s ME101 piping program. In support of this work, Mr. Gross has appeared before the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) in Washington, D.C. and has made numerous presentations to DOE and DNFSB staff in support of the HPAV project.

Mr. Gross holds an M.S. and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and is a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.