William Franklin Riley (March 1, 1925 — January 6, 2000) was an American engineer and professor.
[1] Riley served as lieutenant colonel United States Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946 as a bomber pilot over Germany during World War II.
[1] After completing his BS at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, he worked at the Mesta Machine Company in Pennsylvania as a mechanical engineer from 1951 to 1954.
He contributed to seminal books in the fields of mechanics, including Introduction to Photomechanics[2] with August J. Durelli and Experimental Stress Analysis[3] with James W. Dally.
Riley was named an Honorary Member of the Society for Experimental Mechanics in 1984, a position held until his death in 2000.