Steve Torkildson

• Mr. Torkildson has over 30 years of experience with the design and engineering of power plant components.
  
• Steve Torkildson received his BS degree in civil (structural) engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1973.
  
• His expertise lies in the stress analysis and design of complex non-building structures and mechanisms. His work experience includes the design of wind tunnels, aerospace testing equipment, heat recovery steam generators, cranes, offshore platform mooring systems, naval missile launchers, underwater explosion shock analysis, vibration analysis and design of powered, movable structures.
  
• Most recently he worked on research, product development, and failure analysis for Deltak LLC, a major heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) producer. Mr. Torkildson has 14 years of experience with HRSG design extending back to 1978 when he developed structural concepts, floating internal insulation schemes and the first HRSG perforated plate flow conditioning system for some of the earliest gas turbine HRSGs.
  
• Mr. Torkildson has published several papers on the analysis of HRSG cycling and fatigue and developed software to speed the process of HRSG fatigue evaluation.

  
  

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