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Eric CHEIFET
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About Eric CHEIFET
Mr. Eric Cheifet serves as Vice President and Principal Engineer of SOCOTEC’s Advanced Engineering Services. His works focus on the fields of stress analysis and fitness-for-service (FFS) assessments, including deterministic and probabilistic fracture mechanics approaches. Mr.Cheifet specializes in finite element analysis (using ANSYS) to assist in failure and root cause determination, including repair procedures.
These analyses can also address concerns of residual stresses, vibration, fatigue, and creep, among others. His expertise extends across the transportation, infrastructure, building services, and energy industries.
Mr. Cheifet has also worked extensively in design and structural analysis of aircraft airframes and components, specifically on the CH-47 Chinook helicopter.
Advanced Engineering Services & Expertise
Qualifications
Education
- M.S. Mechanical Engineering – Villanova University – 2010
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering – Pennsylvania State University – 2009
Professional Licenses and Certifications
- Professional Engineer (PE)
Professional Affiliations
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Metropolitan Section
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Metropolitan Section
- Engineering Mechanics Institute
Publications
- E. M. Cheifet, E. T. Schickel, and R. S. Vecchio, “Fitness-For-Service ofHeavy Structural Steel Weldments”, Forensic Engineering 8th Congress,Austin, TX, December 2018.
Representative Projects
- Rail Car Fitness-For-Service and Remaining-Life Evaluation
- In-pavement Airport Lighting Failure Analysis
- Building Construction Weldment Flaw Tolerance and Constraint Analysis
- Building Maintenance Unit Fitness-For-Service Assessments
- Nuclear Plant Safety Relief Valve Reliability Improvements
- Fracture mechanics analysis of various cyclically-loaded components
- Structural Cracking in Heavy Steel Construction
- Bridge Instrumentation and Fitness-For-Service Analyses
- Life Assessments of Fully Composite Transit Vehicles
- Custom load tests of structural components
- Structural Dynamics of Automated People Movers
- Thermal Modeling of High Temperature Alloys
- Train Derailment Modeling