Edmund F. Rybicki, Ph.D., P.E.
 Harry H. Rogers Distinguished Professor and Department Chair

Research Interests:

• Erosion/Corrosion, Thermal Spray Coatings, Residual Stresses and Deflections

Teaching Fields:

• Elasticity, Composite Materials, Plasticity, Fracture Mechanics, Residual Stresses

Three Representative Publications:

• Greving, D.J., Rybicki, E.F., and Shadley, J.R. "Through-Thickness Residual Stress Evaluations for Several Industrial Thermal Spray Coatings Using a Modified Layer Removal Method ", The Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, Vol. 3, No. 4, December 1994, pp. 379-388.
  
  
• Shadley, J.R., Shirazi, S.A., Dayalan, E., and Rybicki, E.F., "Prediction of Erosion-Corrosion Penetration Rate in a CO2 Environment with Sand," CORROSION, Vol. 54, No. 12, December 1998, pp. 972-978.
  
  
• Savarimuthu, A.C., Taber, H.F., Megat, I., Shadley, J.R., Rybicki, E.F., Cornell, W.C., Emery, W.A., Somerville, D.A., Nuse, J.D., "Sliding Wear Behavior of Tungsten Carbide Thermal Spray Coatings for Replacement of Chromium Electroplate in Aircraft Applications", Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, Vol. 10, No. 3, (2001) pp 502-510.

Select Awards and Honors

• Fellow in ASME, AWS, and ASM
  
• Co-Authored 8 papers that received awards from Technical Journals and Conferences.
  

Other Responsibilities

• Department Chair
• Committees: Univer & Tech Societies

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