CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM SMITH

EMPLOYMENT:
Jan 2000. Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, (School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Exeter). Materials and Process Engineering Research Group.

SKILLS:

• Research: Materials characterisation, especially small / biological specimens. Modelling of mechanical behaviour. Optical strain measurement. Microscopy.
• Teaching: Materials and Manufacture. Advanced Materials Engineering, Advanced Solid Mechanics

RESEARCH FUNDING:

• Leverhulme ‘First Measurement of the Mechanical Properties of Giant Zeolite Single Crystals’ £73k (April ’03 - April ’05).
• EPSRC Network GR/S13064/01 “Auxetic Materials” £62k (Mar ’03 – Mar ’06)
• EPSRC ROPA grant GR/R84870/01 ‘The Role of Irregularity in Microstructure on the Mechanical Behaviour of Auxetic Materials’ £104k (Oct ’02 – Oct ’04)
• EPSRC CASE award (with ICI) ‘Negative Thermal Expansion Coefficient Materials’ £23k, (Jan ’02 to Jan ’05)
• ICI SRF project ‘Skin Mechanics’, £110k (July ’01-July ’03)
• ICI SRF project ‘Skin Mechanics’, £43k (April ’00-April ’01)
• EPSRC grant GR/R09787 ‘Cancellous Bone: Modelling and Measuring Properties In Relation to Pathological Changes’, £62k (Nov ‘00 – April ‘03)

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS:

• Sept 2001, invited poster at ICI Materials Workshop, University of Oxford, ‘Understanding Skin Mechanics’.
• July 2000, Royal Society ‘New Frontiers’ Exhibition: London/Edinburgh, Biomimicry of Small Flapping Aerofoils
• June 99, Society for Experimental Mechanics, Cincinnati: Microstructures Producing Negative Poisson’s Ratios.
• June 94, World Congress of Biomechanics, Amsterdam: Mechanical Properties and Storage Issues of Bone.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

1. Gaspar N, Smith CW and Evans KE “The Effect of Heterogeneity on the Elastic Properties of Auxetic Materials” Journal of Applied Physics, to appear 2003.
2. Smith CW and Vincent JFV (2002) “Technology Transfer from Biology to Engineering” Phil Trans Roy Soc A, 360 (1791), pp 155-157.
3. Smith C.W., Winlove C.P. (2001) Elastic Behavior of Biological Materials. In:  Buschow K H J, Cahn R W, Flemings M C, Ilschner B, Kramer E J, Mahajan S (eds) Encyclopaedia of Materials: Science and Technology, Volume 3. Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 2386-2389. [ISBN: 0-08-043152-6]
4. Smith C.W., Grima J.N. and Evans K.E., (2000) “Novel mechanism producing negative Poisson’s ratios in reticulated foams.” Acta Materialia. vol. 48, no. 17, pp. 4349-4356.
5. Smith, C. W., Herbert, R., Wootton, R. J. and Evans, K. E. (2000). The hind wing of the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria Forskal). II. Mechanical properties and functioning of the membrane.” Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 203, pp. 2933-2943.
6. Zioupos P., Smith C.W. and An Y.H., “Factors Affecting Mechanical Properties of Bone.” Chapter 4, in Mechanical Testing of Bone and the Bone-Implant Interface, eds. Y.H. An, Draughn R.A. CRC Press, 1999.
7. Smith C.W., Wootton, R.J. and Evans. K.E. (1999) “Interpretation of Experimental Data for Poisson’s Ratio of Highly Non-Linear Materials”, Experimental Mechanics, vol. 39, no.4, pp. 356-362.
8. Smith C.W., Lehman F., Wootton R.J. and Evans K.E. (1999) “Strain Densification During Indentation in Auxetic Foams” Cellular Polymers, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 79-101.
9. Smith C.W., Kearney J.N. and Young I.S. (1996) “Mechanical Properties of Tendons; Changes With Sterilisation and Preservation”, Transactions of the ASME; Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, vol. 118, no. 1, p.p. 56-61.
10. Smith C.W., Kearney J.N. (1996) “Effects of Irradiation Sterilisation on the Mechanical Properties of Tendon.” Journal of Materials Science; Materials in Medicine, vol. 7, p.p. 645-659.