Richard P. Gangloff

Professor & Chair
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

RICHARD P. GANGLOFF is Professor and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, positions that he assumed in 1990 and 2003, respectively, after entering the university in 1986 as Associate Professor. From 1980 to 1986 he was Senior Staff Metallurgist at the Corporate Research Science Laboratories of the Exxon Research and Engineering Company; and from 1974 to 1980, Metallurgist at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center. In these capacities he conducted research on fatigue and fracture problems in the nuclear, aircraft engine, airframe, marine, and chemical technologies. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Lehigh University between 1966 and 1974. Professor Gangloff is a member of ASM, AIME, ASTM, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. He is a Fellow of ASTM, a Fellow of ASM International, Past Chairman of the ASTM committee on Subcritical Cracking, editor of five international conference proceedings for AIME, NACE and ASTM, as well as organizer of the 1994 Gordon Conference on Physical Metallurgy and 1st International Conference on Environment-Induced Cracking of Metals. He has advised 25 MS and PhD students, and authored 100 invited lectures and 100 publications, on the metallurgy, fracture mechanics and chemistry of fatigue and fracture in ferrous, zirconium, aluminum, nickel, and titanium alloys. He received the 1986 Henry Marion Howe Medal from ASM and the 1991 ASTM Award of Merit for work in these fields, and was the 1996 ASTM Fatigue Lecturer. From 1987 through 2000, Professor Gangloff directed the NASA-UVa Light Aerospace Alloy and Structures Technology Program at UVa. He has consulted for 30 companies and government laboratories.