
Robert Kelly
Primary Appointment
Materials Science and EngineeringContact Information
Telephone: 434-982-5783Fax: 434-982-5799
Email: rgk6y@virginia.edu
Website: https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/robert-g-kelly
Research Interests
Corrosion
Research Description
Prof. Kelly's present work includes studies of the electrochemical and chemical conditions inside localized corrosion sites in various alloy systems, corrosion in aging aircraft, atomistic and continuum modeling of electrochemical processes, development of embeddable corrosion microinstruments, as well as the use of microfabrication methods to probe the fundamentals of localized corrosion.