Professor David Smith

Research summary

After gaining my doctorate degree at Imperial College, I became a Research Engineer at The Welding Institute in Cambridge and then joined the University of Bristol (UoB) in 1988. In 1996 I was awarded the Professorship in Engineering Materials at UoB.  For two years (October 1997 - September 1999) I worked for ~30% of my time as a DERA Senior Fellow in the Structural Materials Centre in Farnborough.  

Recently I was involved in co-ordinating a team for the development the £15M BLADE project.

I was the Director of Research from 2004 to 2006 for the Faculty of Engineering with the aim ...

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Biography

I am currently Professor of Engineering Materials.  My academic interests lie in fracture of materials and locked-in stresses in engineering components. I am Head of the Solid Mechanics Research Group in UoB’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Systems Performance Centre, and recipient of a Royal Society Research Wolfson Merit Award (2007-2012).  The Solid Mechanics Research group currently consists of 6 academics.  The group has about 30 researchers primarily funded by Industry, EC and EPSRC with awards totalling about £6M.  Recent project awards include; two EPSRC consortia “Supergen” and “KNOO”, both projects related to power generation; a large ...

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Recent publications

• Gelderen, DV, Pistora, V, Posta, M, Booker, JD, Lauerova, D & Smith, DJ 2013, ‘Statistical Analysis and Monte-Carlo Simulations of Warm Prestressing of Pre-cracked Small Single Edge Notch Bend Specimens. Proc. 2013 ASME PVP Conference, Paris, France, 14-18 July.’.
• Gelderen, DV, Booker, JD & Smith, DJ 2013, ‘The Significance of Residual Stress using Monte-Carlo Simulations of Warm Prestress. Proc. ESIA12, 12th International Conference on Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment, 28-29 May 2013, Manchester, UK’.

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