Eugenia L. Kennedy, CSP

Ms. Kennedy's expertise is in the discipline of mechanical engineering, including the fields of mechanical design and the mechanical behavior of materials. Ms. Kennedy has attained specialized competence in industrial and occupational safety including matters such as machine guarding, fall protection, hazardous energy control, aerial lifts, scaffolding, walking/working surfaces, and slip-and-fall matters. Ms. Kennedy has experience in evaluating worker, equipment, and facility safety. She has also assisted clients in machine guarding and safety audits. Throughout her career, Ms. Kennedy has used her expertise in mechanical engineering to solve a broad range of problems related to failure analysis and prevention, vehicle accident investigation and reconstruction, and product design and development. She has performed failure investigations of many different components and equipment including: consumer products, automobiles, amusement park rides, and power plant components such as reactor vessels, steam generators, boilers, and turbines. Ms. Kennedy’s work in the area of mechanical behavior of materials addresses many topics including fatigue, erosion, creep, and stress corrosion. Her expertise also covers fracture mechanics analysis, statistical modeling of material data, and remaining life assessments.

Ms. Kennedy is a Certified Safety Professional. She has received the Safety and Health Specialist Certificates in Construction Industry and General Industry from the OSHA Training Institute Education Center and is authorized to teach the 10- and 30-hour Outreach Courses in OSHA’s Construction Safety and Health Standards. She is also the Vice President of Communications (2010) for the Boston Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers.

Prior to joining Exponent, Ms. Kennedy worked for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation as an Engineer in the Plant Engineering Division.

Kennedy EL. Aerial lift fatalities and injury causes. American Society of Safety Engineers Technical Publication, RM/Insight 2010; 9(3).

Kennedy EL. OSHA Multi-Employer Policy. Georgia Defense Lawyer, Spring 2010.

Kennedy EL. Machine guarding design: A historical perspective. American Society of Safety Engineers Technical Publication, By Design 2007; 7(2).

Kennedy EL. Analyses of amusement park injury data. American Society of Safety Engineers Risk Management/Insurance Practice Specialty Newsletter 2006; 6(2).

Server WL, Griesbach TJ, Kennedy EL, Venkatakrishnan CS. Reactor pressure vessel life assurance decisions. American Society of Mechanical Engineers Annual Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference, PVP-Vol. 261. Bamford WH (ed), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, NY, 1993.

Foulds JR, Kennedy EL. Bounding the conservatism in flaw-related variables for pressure vessel integrity analyses. In: Reliability and Risk in Pressure Vessels and Piping. p. 67–74, PVP-Vol. 251. Phillips JH (ed), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993.

Foulds JR, Kennedy EL, Basin SL, Rosinski ST. Flaw distribution development from vessel ISI data. 11th International NDE in the Nuclear and Pressure Vessel Industries Conference, Albuquerque, NM, April 29, 1992 (i).

Rosinski ST, Kennedy EL, Foulds JR. Feasibility for Development of a Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessel Flaw Distribution—Sensitivity Analyses and NDE Capability. Proceedings, International Atomic Energy Agency Specialists Meeting on Nuclear Power Plant Lifetime Assurance, October 1990, Stockholm, Sweden, Reference 12, Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate, Sweden, 1990.

Rosinski, ST, Kennedy EL, Foulds JR, Kinsman KM. PWR Vessel Flaw Distribution Development—An Overview of Feasibility. Proceedings, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Annual Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference, 1990, Nashville, TN, pp. 73–78, PVP-Vol. 193. Pangborn RN (ed), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, NY, 1990.

Kennedy EL, et al. Stress and fracture mechanics analyses of weld cracking in a rotary ball mill. Winter Annual Meeting, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Paper 389-WA/DE-17, San Francisco, CA, December 1989.

Balkey KR, Kennedy EL. A Cost effective approach for extending the life of pressurized water reactor vessels. Proceedings, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference, Vol. 98-1, New Orleans, LA, June 1985.

Balkey, KR, Kennedy EL. Probabilistic fracture mechanics sensitivity study for plant specific evaluations of reactor vessel pressurized thermal shock. Proceedings, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference, Vol. 92, San Antonio, TX, June 1984.

Meyer T, Kennedy EL. The effects of pressure fluctuations on warm prestressing. Paper 83-PVP-93, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference, Portland, OR, June 1983.

Presentations

Kennedy EL. Designing for safety—Application to construction and general industry. Lorman Educational Services, October 2008.

Kennedy EL. Designing for safety in the workplace. Legal Issues for Massachusetts Professional Engineers, May 2008.

Kennedy EL. Root cause failure analysis and accident reconstruction. Lorman Educational Services, November 2007.

Kennedy EL. Slips and falls. Recent developments in civil litigation. Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association, May 2007.

Kennedy EL. Fall protection. Northeast Buildings & Facilities Management Show & Conference, April 2007.

Kennedy EL. Workplace accident investigation. Legal Issues for Massachusetts Professional Engineers, April 2006.

Kennedy EL. Wild Wonder amusement ride accident investigation. Extreme Evidence, Court TV, January 2005.

Kennedy EL. Accidents resulting from in-house repairs. American Society of Safety Engineers, New England Professional Development Conference, November 2004.

Kennedy EL. Accident investigations and analysis. Invited Lecture, AEGIS Claims Roundtable, Jersey City, NJ, January 2001.

Kennedy EL. Accident investigation and personal injury analysis. Invited Lecture, Claims Adjuster Workshop, Liberty Mutual, Weston, MA, December 1, 2000.

Kennedy EL. Accident investigation and personal injury analysis. Invited Lecture, Black & McCue, Worcester, MA, October 8, 1998.

Kennedy EL. Accident investigation and reconstruction. Invited Lecture, New England Region Field Investigator Meeting, Liberty Mutual, Sturbridge, MA, August 16, 1996.

Reports

Menich RP, Kennedy EL. SAVER (Statistical Analysis of Vessel Examination Results)—A Computer Code for Developing a Flaw Distribution from Vessel Inspection Data. Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. Contractor Report to Sandia National Laboratories, SAND94-2454, Albuquerque, NM, January 1997.

Dorshuk, BW, Martson TU, Kennedy EL, Hostetler DR. Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant life cycle management/license renewal program—Reactor pressure vessel evaluation. Electric Power Research Institute, TR-104509, Palo Alto, CA, April 1995.

Kennedy EL, Doney G, Nickell R. PWR reactor pressure vessel license renewal industry report; Revision 1. Electric Power Research Institute, TR-103837, Palo Alto, CA, July 1994.

Gambel RM, Kennedy EL, Server WL, Connor, L, Venkatakrishnan, CS. Reactor Vessel Embrittlement Management Handbook—A handbook for managing reactor vessel embrittlement and vessel integrity. Electric Power Research Institute, TR-101975, Palo Alto, CA, December 1993.

Foulds JR, Kennedy EL. Midland Reactor Pressure Vessel Flaw Distribution. Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. Contractor Report to Sandia National Laboratories, SAND93-7064, Albuquerque, NM, 1993.

White Paper on reactor vessel integrity requirements for Level A and B Conditions. Electric Power Research Institute, TR-100251, Palo Alto, CA, January 1993.

Kennedy EL, Foulds JR, Rosinski SL. Nuclear reactor pressure vessel flaw distribution development. Phase II—Methodology and Application. Contractor Report, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND91-7073, Albuquerque, NM, 1991.

Kennedy EL, Foulds JR. Nuclear reactor vessel flaw distribution development. Phase I—NDE Capability and Sensitivity Analyses. Contractor Report. Sandia National Laboratories, SAND 89-7148, Albuquerque, NM, May 1990.

Wessel ET, Server WL, Kennedy EL. Primer: Fracture Mechanics in the nuclear industry. Electric Power Research Institute, EPRI NP-5792-5R, Palo Alto, CA, 1990.

Hopkins SW, Kennedy EL. Feedwater pump shaft failure investigation. Failure Analysis Associates Report, January 1987.

Harris DO, Sire RA, Rau SA, Dedhia DD, Nelson EE, Kennedy EL. PERL, A computer code for probabilistic evaluation of rotor lifetime. Failure Analysis Associates Report to Consolidated Edison, November 1986.

• American Society of Safety Engineers
  American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  American Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM Committee 
      a. E34 Occupational Health and Safety 
          i. E34.30 Occupational Health and Safety in Construction 
          ii. E34.91 Long Range Planning 
          iii. E34.92 Technical Committee Operation 
      b. F 13 Pedestrian/Walkway Safety and Footwear 
      c. F13.50 Walkway Surfaces
• National Fire Protection Association