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Dr Robert Bulpett |
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Dr Bob Bulpett retired from the Directorship of the Experimental Techniques Centre in July 2011. Working in ETC for 41 years, Dr Bulpett was coordinated more than three hundred investigations each year for private individuals, local companies and multinational industries. Dr Bulpett’s continues to be active in research and his own areas of particular expertise lie in materials characterisation, engineering failure analysis, surface analysis and engineering production process investigations. He has provided expert opinion in connection with litigation and has presented expert witness evidence in the High Court. Bob worked in state and private industry as a research metallurgist and as a research physicist. He then joined a specialist electrical and electronics manufacturer as a production assistant before moving into employment in higher education in late 1970. Dr Bulpett has recently published a book “Design Against Fracture and Failure” based on over 30 years experience in the application of microscopy and analytical techniques to the study and characterisation of Physicist, Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, a member of the Institute of Physics and various analytical user groups. He is also a member of the ISO and BSI Technical Committees on 'Surface Chemical Analysis' and 'Electron Microprobe Analysis' |
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Publications: Journal articles, click on a link for the publishers’ website (via DOI) some articles are also available on the University’s open access system, BURA:
“Failure Analysis of a Steel Motorcycle Kickstand”
“Diamond-like carbon / epoxy combination low-friction coatings to replace electroplated chromium”
“Energy efficiency improvements in dry drilling with optimised diamond-like carbon coatings”
“A study of fatigue failure initiation in high cycle high-pressure automotive applications and conventional rotating bending fatigue testing”
“Effect of transient liquid-phase bonding variables on the properties of a micro-duplex stainless steel” T.I. Khan, M.J. Kabir, R. Bulpett Materials Science and Engineering A - Structural materials properties, microstructure and processing 372 (2004) 290
Wear 162 (1993) 1059
G. Buckton, R. Bulpett, N. Verma International Journal of Pharmaceutics 72 (1991) 157 |
