Robert P. Wei 

Phone: (610) 758-3587
Fax: (610) 758-6224

Paul B. Reinhold Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Environment-Sensitive Fracture Group // follow this is a link to www.lehigh.edu/~infracsc

Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 1966

Education:
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1960
M.S. Princeton University, 1954
B.S. Princeton University, 1953

Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Chair, Dept. of Mech. Engrg. & Mech., Lehigh University, 1990-96
Acting Chair, Dept. of Mech. Engrg. & Mech., Lehigh University, 1983-84
Professor, Dept. of Mech. Engrg. & Mech., Lehigh University, 1970-present
Associate Professor, Dept. of Mech. Engrg. & Mech., Lehigh University, 1966-70
U.S. Steel Corporation, Assoc. Research Consultant, 1959-1966
Princeton University, Research Assistant, June 1955-Sept. 1955 & June 1958-Sept. 1959
Princeton University, Instructor, Sept. 1954-June 1957
Bakelite Company, Project Engineer, June-Sept. 1956

Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.:
Research on fracture mechanics, including chemical, microstructural and mechanical considerations of stress corrosion cracking, hydrogen embrittlement, fatigue and corrosion fatigue of structural materials, and on life-cycle engineering.

Principal investigator in (past and current) research projects sponsored by AISI, ALCAN, DARPA, DOE/BES, DOE/FE, DOT/OPSO, ONR, McDonnell Douglas, NASA, AFOSR, NSF and FAA.

Scientific and professional societies of which a member:
Fellow, ASTM
Fellow, ASM International
AIME
Sigma Xi
Beta Pi Chapter of Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society
Materials Research Society
Technical Committee, International Conference on FATIGUE in the Very High Cycle Regime, July 2-4, 2001, Vienna

Honors and awards:
Plenary Lecturer, The European Corrosion Congress (EUROCORE 2005), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005
ASTM Committee E08 on Fatigue and Fracture 2002 Award for Fatigue Research
Certificate of recognition and appreciation for a career of outstanding contributions to the study of Hydrogen Effects and Corrosion Deformation Interactions, H-CDI Conference, September, 2002
Annual Fatigue Lecturer, ASTM Committee E8 on Fatigue and Fracture, Dallas, TX, November 2001
Plenary speaker, International Symposia on Materials Science for the 21st Century (ISMS-21), Osaka, Japan, May 2001
Invited Keynote Lecturer, Japan Society of Materials Science, 50th Anniversary Celebration, Osaka, Japan, May 2001
Keynote speaker, ASTM Symposium on Environmentally Assisted Cracking: Predictive Methods, Orlando, FL, 2000
Keynote speaker, FATIGUE '99, The Seventh International Conference, Beijing, China, 1999
Keynote speaker, Environmental Degradation on Engineering Materials, Gdansk-Jurata, Poland, 1999
Eleanor and Joseph Libsch Research Award, Lehigh University, 1994
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award, 1990-91
Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences - Fellowship, 1987
Exxon Educational Foundation Grant (1981-83)
Henry Marion Howe Medal, American Society for Metals, 1979
ASTM Award of Merit, 1978
ALCOA Foundation Grant, 1977-79
ASTM Committee E-9 Award - for best paper presented on fatigue, 1976
Van Horn Distinguished Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University, 1976-77

Recent Ph.D. and M.S. Thesis and/or Projects Supervised:
(contact the department for a copy)
2002 - Osama M. Alyousif, Ph.D. Thesis, "Corrosion and Corrosion Fatigue of Aluminum Alloys"
2002 - Zhifan Huang, Ph.D. Thesis, "Environmentally Enhanced Crack Growth in Nickel-Based Superalloys"
2001 - Mary Chilton Latham, M.S. Thesis, "Characterization of Corrosion Fatigue Damage in the Fastener Holes of a Boeing 707"