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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Heinz P. Bloch (West Des Moines, Iowa) is a consulting engineer.
Before retiring from Exxon in 1986 after over two decades of service,
Mr. Bloch’s professional career included long-term assignments as
Exxon Chemical’s Regional Machinery Specialist for the United States.
He has also held machinery-oriented staff and line positions with
Exxon affiliates in the United States, Italy, Spain, England, The
Netherlands, and Japan. He has conducted over 500 public and in-
plant courses in the United States and at international locations.

Dr. Murari P. Singh (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is Consulting Engi-
neer/Probabilistic Lifing Leader of GE Oil & Gas for all products in the
Chief Engineers’ Office. Dr. Singh has been involved in the design,
development, and analysis of industrial turbomachinery for more than
30 years with Turbodyne Corporation, Dresser Industries, Dresser-
Rand Company, and, most recently, Safe Technical Solutions Inc.,
where he served as Director of Engineering Technology. Dr. Singh
has extensive knowledge and experience with fatigue and fracture
mechanics, stress and vibration of structures, reliability, life analy-
sis, and probabilistic analysis. His practical application experience is
with a variety of rotating equipment including warm gas and FCC
expanders, steam turbines, and centrifugal compressors. He developed
the widely used SAFE diagram for reliability evaluation of turbine
blades. Dr. Singh has authored more than 35 technical papers on top-
ics relating to turbomachinery.