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Richard M. Sawala

Birth Place:
Citizenship:
Wronki, Poland
Canadian

Education:

B. Eng. (Mechanical Engineering) 1971, University of Zielona Gora, Poland.

Positions Held:
  1. Laboratory Manager, Stern Laboratories Inc., September 2004 to present.

  2. Project Engineer, Stern Laboratories Inc., January 1988 to August 2004.

  3. Project Engineer, Contract Engineering, Nuclear Products Department, Westinghouse Canada Inc., January 1982 to 1988.

  4. Senior Project Engineer, R & D Centre, Textile Machine Company, Zielona Gora Poland, 1973 to 1981.

  5. Project Engineer, R & D Centre, Textile Machine Company, Zielona Gora Poland, 1971 to 1973.
Publications:

S.L. Wadsworth, G.I. Hadaller, R.M. Sawala and E. Kohn, "Experimental Investigation of CANDU Fuel Deformation During Severely Degraded Cooling", presented at the Thermal Reactor Safety Meeting, San Diego, California, February 1986.

E. Kohn, G.I. Hadaller, R.M. Sawala, G.H. Archinoff and S.L. Wadsworth, "CANDU Fuel Development During Severely Degraded Cooling: Experimental Results" Canadian Nuclear Society Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, June 1985.

G.I. Hadaller, R.M. Sawala, E. Kohn, G.H. Archinoff, S.L. Wadsworth, "Experiments Investigating the Thermal-Mechanical Behaviour of CANDU Fuel Under Severely Degraded Cooling", presented at the Fifth International Meeting on Thermal Nuclear Reactor Safety - Karlsruhe, September 1984.

Reports:

G.I. Hadaller, R.M. Sawala, “Thermal Cycling Experiments with Two Qualification Heating Rods for Pennsylvania State University”, Stern Laboratories Inc. Canada, SL-106, December 1998.

G.I. Hadaller, R.M. Sawala, “Experimental Measurement of Pressure Tube Creep Sag under LOCA and LOEC Conditions - Part 3, Pressure Tube/Calandria Tube Assembly with Internal Pressure”, Westinghouse Canada, CWAPD-464, November 1987.

G.I. Hadaller, R.M. Sawala, “Experimental Measurement of Pressure Tube Creep Sag under LOCA and LOEC Conditions - Part 2, Pressure Tube/Calandria Tube Assembly”, Westinghouse Canada, CWAPD-463, February 1987.

G.I. Hadaller, R.M. Sawala, “Experimental Measurement of Pressure Tube Creep Sag under LOCA and LOEC Conditions - Part 1, Pressure Tube/Fuel Simulation”, Westinghouse Canada, CWAPD-382, November 1986.

R.M. Sawala, G.I. Hadaller, “High Temperature Transient Bundle Sag In Steam, HTBS-04, HTBS-05”, Westinghouse Canada, CWAPD-461, CWAPD-466, February 1987.

G.I. Hadaller, R.M. Sawala, “Fuel Bundle Drop Tests”, Westinghouse Canada, CWAPD-471, November 1986.

R.M. Sawala, G.I. Hadaller, “High Temperature Transient Bundle Sag In Steam, HTBS-01, HTBS-02, HTBS-03”, Westinghouse Canada, CWAPD-450, CWAPD-452, CWAPD-454, March 1986.

Patents:

Polish Patent - 89525 "Carding Machine for Cotton and Cotton alike Fibres" (1977).

Granted in:

Italy - 1030771;
Japan - 1009589;
France - 74 42056;
Germany - 24 51 867;
Switzerland - 586290;
UK - 1472619