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Professor Norman A Fleck   FREng, FRS

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Tel:  +44 (0)1223 748240
Fax:  +44 (0)1223 332662
Email:  naf1@eng.cam.ac.uk

Professor of Mechanics of Materials
Director of the Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics
  • BA, Cambridge University, 1979
  • PhD, Cambridge University, 1984
Research Interests:
  • Mechanical behaviour of materials
  • Micromechanics of deformation and fracture
  • Fatigue, fracture and creep of engineering solids
  • Plasticity theory and finite elements
  • Metallic foams
  • Powder compaction
  • Ferroelectrics
Research Group Affiliation: Recent Publications:
  1. Full list of publications ....
  2. Qiu, X., Deshpande, V.S. and Fleck, N. A. (2005). Impulsive loading of clamped monolithic and sandwich beams over a central patch. J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 53, 1015-1046.(download paper)
  3. Hutchinson, R.G., Fleck, N.A. and Cocks, A.C.F. (2005). A sintering model for thermal barrier coatings. To be submitted to Acta Materialia.
  4. McShane, G. J., Radford, D D, Deshpande, V S and Fleck, N A. (2005). The response of clamped sandwich plates with lattice cores subjected to shock loading. Submitted to Eur. J. Mechanics, A/Solids.(download paper)
  5. Borg, U., Niordson, C.F., Fleck, N.A. and Tvergaard, V. (2005). A viscoplastic strain gradient analysis of materials with voids or inclusions. Submitted to Int. J. Solids and Structures.
  6. Hutchinson, R.G. and Fleck, N.A. (2005). The structural performance of the Kagome lattice. To be submitted to Int. J. Solids and Structures.(download paper)
  7. Luo, J. K, Flewitt, A.J., Spearing, S.M., Fleck, N.A. and Milne, W.I. (2004). Three types of planar structure microspring electro-thermal actuators with insulating beam constraints. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 15, 1527-1535.(download paper)
  8. Côté, F., Deshpande, V.S., Fleck, N.A. and Evans, A.G. (2005). The compressive and shear responses of corrugated and diamond lattice materials. To appear in Int. J. Solids Structures.(download paper)
  9. Deshpande, V.S., Heaver, A. and Fleck, N.A. (2005). An underwater shock simulator. Submitted to Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond A.(download paper)
  10. Luo, J. K, Flewitt, A.J., Spearing, S.M., Fleck, N.A. and Milne, W.I. (2005). Comparison of microtweezers based on three lateral thermal actuator configurations. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 15, 1294-1302.(download paper)
  11. Luo, J. K., He, J.H., Fu, Y.Q., Flewitt, A.J., Spearing, S.M., Fleck, N.A. and Milne, W.I. (2005). Fabrication and characterization of diamond-like carbon/Ni bimorph normally closed microcages. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 15, 1406-1413.(download paper)

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Last updated 15 July 2008