Kinetics™ About the Authors
Paul Meisel, PE, Vice President of Engineering, currently maintains P.E. licenses in ten states. Mr. Meisel has been with Kinetics for over 12 years and prior to that was involved in the design of mining equipment for 17 years. He is an active member of ASHRAE and the author of the ASHRAE 2003 Handbook Seismic Restraint chapter. He is a past member of FEMA’ s BSSC TS-8 (Restraint of Non-structural Components) Task Group. Mr. Meisel is a regular speaker at ASHRAE functions and the author of two ASHRAE publications related to seismic restraint issues. Mr. Meisel holds or has pending four patents, three directly related to the vibration and seismic control industry.
Richard Sherren, MS, PE, Chief Mechanical Engineer, currently maintains licenses in ten states. Mr. Sherren has been with Kinetics for three years and prior to that worked as an engineering consultant for five years and in the design of heavy construction and mining equipment for 17 years. He is an active member of ASHRAE and a past instructor of college-level engineering, management and CAD courses. Mr. Sherren is a member of ASHRAE committees TC 2.7 (Seismic Restraint) and SPC-171 (Testing of Seismic Restraint Devices). He is author of a paper issued through VISCMA on the interaction between internal and external isolation systems on packaged air handling systems. Mr. Sherren has pending one patent on an innovative method for the seismic restraint of equipment.
Scott Campbell, PhD, PE, Chief Civil/Structural Engineer, currently maintains licenses in seven states. Dr. Campbell has been with Kinetics for three years and has been involved in design, teaching, and research in dynamics for over 18 years. Specializing in nonlinear analysis of structures, a significant amount of the work that Dr. Campbell has done throughout his career has been in the field of blast and seismic design. He is an active member of ASHRAE, ASCE, and ACI and is a current member of FEMA’ s BSSC TS-8 (Restraint of Non-structural Components). In line with his specialty, Dr. Campbell is also the author of numerous papers and presentations on nonlinear analysis and design for seismic, blast, and vibratory loads.
David Meredith, MS, PE, Export Manager. Mr. Meredith has held his current position since 1994 and is responsible for the design of custom noise and vibration control systems sold by the company. He is also responsible for export sales and marketing, working with the company's overseas sales offices. Prior to assuming his current duties, Mr. Meredith was Chief Engineer for the company. He joined Kinetics Noise Control in 1978 and has recently presented papers and technical lectures at seminars sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Nashville), the International Conference on Structural Dynamics, Vibration, Noise and Control (Hong Kong) and InterNoise '96 (Liverpool, U.K.). Mr. Meredith is a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE), the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), and the Institute of Noise Control Engineers (INCE).