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Robert VECCHIO
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Professional Engineer (PE)
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Commercial Cultural & Entertainment Energy / Power Government Industrial & Manufacturing Infrastructure Oil & Gas Transportation Construction Defects Expert Witness Testimony Forensic Engineering International Arbitration Litigation Support Concrete Panels Construction Engineering & Science Construction Site Analysis & Supervision/Inspections Demolition Metal Panel Thermal Imaging Tunneling Unitized / Pre-Fabricated Building Assemblies Aerospace Engineering Geotechnical Engineering Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering Metallurgical Engineering Structural Engineering Civil Engineering Explosions Fabrication & Installation Food Service Heat Exchanger Problems Industrial Plants Industry Standards / Compliance Large Expansion Projects Maintenance Manufacturing Mechanical Engineering Operability Piping Piping and Component Stress Piping Ruptures Plant Operations Pressure Vessel Pulp and Paper Steam and Gas Turbine Construction Materials Testing Crane Accident & Collapse Analysis Degradation Dynamic Loading Dynamics Fatigue & Failure Analysis Feasibility Studies Flow Assurance Fluid Transient Assessment Fracture Mechanics Geotechnical Material & System Aging Material Degredation Material Related Building problems Material Testing Mechanical Design Mechanical Failures Mock-Ups Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Pressure Testing Radiographic Interpretation Shop Monitoring Site Monitoring Special Inspection / Threshold Inspections Strain Gauge Techniques Stress Analysis Structural Engineering Thermo-Hydraulics Wire Rope Failures Disaster Recovery Earthquake Fire Flood Geothermal Hurricane / Wind / Tornado Insurance Claims Due to Disasters Seismic Design Chemical & Processing Plants Drilling FERC FPSO / Submersibles Marine / Maritime / Offshore Marine/Offshore Mining (Mineral Exploration) Natural Gas (LNG, NGL, GTL) Oil and Gas Petrochemical Pipeline (O&G Midstream) Operations, Transmission, Design Refinery / Refining Geothermal Hydro-electric Nuclear Power / Energy Wind Farm / Solar Power Accident Investigations Code/Accessibility Compliance & Consulting Personal Injury QA/QC Safety / OSHA Chilled Water Cooling HVAC Hydro-electric Hygrothermal Evaluation Leak Detection / Moisture Intrusion / Investigation MEP Systems/Equipment Oceanography Technology Welding / Metal Metallurgy Pipefitting / Welding Weld Examinations Weld Structural Failures
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Dr. Vecchio has been with SOCOTEC Engineering, Inc. since 1985, currently as CEO, where he specializes in the fitness-for-service, probabilistic, and risk-based assessment of structures and systems. In addition to day-to-day company management, over the past 40 years, Dr. Vecchio has made significant contributions to the understanding of a wide range of structural and system issues. His responsibilities include remaining life and degradation assessment, fracture mechanics, fatigue, stress corrosion cracking, creep, structural, and root cause failure analyses, as well as oversight of mechanical behavior testing and engineering computer software development and application.
Dr. Vecchio is also an assistant professor at Manhattan College where he teaches a graduate course in fracture mechanics and fatigue analyses.
Professional Experience
39+ YEARS WITH FIRM | 42+ YEARS IN INDUSTRY
Robert VECCHIO is the Chief Executive Officer at SOCOTEC Engineering, Inc. and has held various other positions within the organization since 1985. Prior to his current position, Dr. VECCHIO was the Chief Executive Officer at LPI, Inc. which was acquired by SOCOTEC in 2019.
Qualifications
Education
- PhD in Metallurgical Engineering, Lehigh University -1985
- Master of Science in Civil/Structural Engineering, Manhattan College -1990
- Master of Science in Metallurgical Engineering, Lehigh University –1983
- Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Supplement in Materials Science, University of Southern California -1981
Registrations
- Professional Engineer in: AZ, CO, FL, GA, HI, KS, LA, MA, MD, MN, MO, NV, NY, NC, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA
Professional Affiliations
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers –API/ASME FFS Post Construction Committee and Sec. II Committee, SG Toughness
- Pressure Vessel Research Council –Chairman Division on Materials & Fabrication, Committee on Failure Modes, Fatigue Coordinating Committee (Chairman), Steering Committee for Nuclear Power Plants, and Executive Committee
- American Society for Metals
- American Society for Testing and Materials (Committees E-8)
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- American Welding Society
- Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
Practice Areas
- Root Cause Analyses
- Fitness for Service Analyses
- Failure and Material Evaluation
- Engineering Design Consulting
- Expert Witness Testimony
Representative Projects
- Root Cause Assessment of KMCO Chemical Plant Isobutylene Explosion, Crosby, TX
- Damage and FFS Assessments of SWLRT Tunnel and CICA Building, Minneapolis, MN
- Root Cause Assessment of Arecibo Radio Telescope Observatory Failure, Puerto Rico
- FFS and Fatigue Assessment on the Tappan Zee Bridge Cable Anchor Pipes, New York
- Root Cause and Fitness-for-Service Assessments of Fractured Girders – Salesforce Transbay Transit Center, San Francisco
- FFS and Fatigue Life Assessment of Wind Turbine Towers, Turkey
- Root Cause and Fitness-for-Service Assessments of Fractured Girder – SoNo Mall, Norwalk, CT
- FFS and Fatigue Life Assessment of Honolulu Area Rapid Transit (HART)
- Railcars Flatiron (NYC) Steam Main Rupture / Water Hammer Evaluation and Mitigation
- Creep and Short Crack Fatigue Growth in Aircraft Engine Rotor Disk Ni-Based Superalloys
- Probabilistic Risk/FFS Analyses of Cape Cod High Pressure Gas Transmission Piping
- CGS BWR NPP Core Shroud Crack Growth Refueling-Life Evaluation
- Creep Crack Growth Evaluation of High Energy Piping systems
- National September 11th Memorial Artifact Damage Assessment
- FFS and Risk-Based Assessment of New World Trade Center Transportation Hub
- 4 Times Square Scaffolding Collapse, New York City
Contact
Robert VECCHIO
Professional Licenses
Professional Engineer (PE)
Expertise
Commercial Cultural & Entertainment Energy / Power Government Industrial & Manufacturing Infrastructure Oil & Gas Transportation Construction Defects Expert Witness Testimony Forensic Engineering International Arbitration Litigation Support Concrete Panels Construction Engineering & Science Construction Site Analysis & Supervision/Inspections Demolition Metal Panel Thermal Imaging Tunneling Unitized / Pre-Fabricated Building Assemblies Aerospace Engineering Geotechnical Engineering Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering Metallurgical Engineering Structural Engineering Civil Engineering Explosions Fabrication & Installation Food Service Heat Exchanger Problems Industrial Plants Industry Standards / Compliance Large Expansion Projects Maintenance Manufacturing Mechanical Engineering Operability Piping Piping and Component Stress Piping Ruptures Plant Operations Pressure Vessel Pulp and Paper Steam and Gas Turbine Construction Materials Testing Crane Accident & Collapse Analysis Degradation Dynamic Loading Dynamics Fatigue & Failure Analysis Feasibility Studies Flow Assurance Fluid Transient Assessment Fracture Mechanics Geotechnical Material & System Aging Material Degredation Material Related Building problems Material Testing Mechanical Design Mechanical Failures Mock-Ups Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Pressure Testing Radiographic Interpretation Shop Monitoring Site Monitoring Special Inspection / Threshold Inspections Strain Gauge Techniques Stress Analysis Structural Engineering Thermo-Hydraulics Wire Rope Failures Disaster Recovery Earthquake Fire Flood Geothermal Hurricane / Wind / Tornado Insurance Claims Due to Disasters Seismic Design Chemical & Processing Plants Drilling FERC FPSO / Submersibles Marine / Maritime / Offshore Marine/Offshore Mining (Mineral Exploration) Natural Gas (LNG, NGL, GTL) Oil and Gas Petrochemical Pipeline (O&G Midstream) Operations, Transmission, Design Refinery / Refining Geothermal Hydro-electric Nuclear Power / Energy Wind Farm / Solar Power Accident Investigations Code/Accessibility Compliance & Consulting Personal Injury QA/QC Safety / OSHA Chilled Water Cooling HVAC Hydro-electric Hygrothermal Evaluation Leak Detection / Moisture Intrusion / Investigation MEP Systems/Equipment Oceanography Technology Welding / Metal Metallurgy Pipefitting / Welding Weld Examinations Weld Structural Failures
+ See more Services
Expert Witness/Diligence/Consulting Failure Investigations Forensics Site Monitoring Expert Witness/Diligence/Consulting Failure Investigations Accident Investigation (Crane Collapses, Explosions, etc) Advanced Computing & Models Advanced Engineering Analysis Commissioning and Retro-Commissioning Component and Structural Field Monitoring Engineering Design Consulting Failure Analysis Fitness for Service Evaluations Fluid Hydraulics, Flow Testing and Simulation Services Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue Analysis Geotechnical Engineering Materials Analysis & Testing Materials Laboratory and Large-Scale Testing Facility Metallurgy Mining Industry Services Nondestructive Engineering Nuclear Services Quality Control & Assurance (QAQC) Risk Analysis Root Cause Evalutation Structural Analysis Vibration Analysis and Monitoring Wise-Back Digital Inspection Toolkit
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