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Sockalingam (Sam) Kannappan, P.E., is a Senior Design Engineer with SNC-Lavalin GDS Inc. in Houston, Texas, and has more than 30 years of consulting experience. Mr. Kannappan is the author of Introduction to Pipe Stress Analysis and has expertise in fracture mechanics and finite element analysis. He may be contacted at kann@pdq.net
