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Details for Professor David Smith
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor David Smith |
| Job title | Professor of Engineering Materials |
| Department | Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BSc(N'cle), PhD(Lond) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | Royal Academy of Engineering Professor (2011-2016) and Recipient of a Royal Society Research Wolfson Merit Award (2007-2012) |
| Keywords | fracture of materials solid mechanics power generation aerospace residual stresses nuclear propulsion Nuclear Research Centre Cabot Institute |
| Areas of expertise | I am currently Professor of Engineering Materials. My academic interests lie in fracture of materials and locked-in stresses in engineering components. I am part of the Solid Mechanics Research Group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (www.men.bris.ac.uk/research/solids.html), Co-Director of the Bristol-Oxford Nuclear Research Centre, recipient of a Royal Society Research Wolfson Merit Award (2007-2012) and holder of Bristol’s first Royal Academy of Engineering Chair (2011-2016). I am also a non-Executive Director of VEQTER Ltd, (http://www.veqter.co.uk) a company, spun out from the University of Bristol, and managed by Dr Ed Kingston that provides a residual stress measurement service for industry. |