Dr Mike Williams
Lecturer
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: m.r.williams@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785326
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
Clients
Qinetiq, BAE, MoD, DS&E, Disarmco, Avon RubberBackground
Dr Williams has worked on defence related science for more than twenty years.
His early career was spent working on Pyrotechnic smokes and on the effectiveness of charcoal filters for NBC applications. More recently he has taken the Cranfield lead in the development of explosives risk and cost-benefit models for Insensitive Munitions for MoD and leads the Risk & Hazard Assessment module and an Insensitive Munitions half-module on the MSc Courses at Cranfield.
Dr Williams has also a particular interest in the measurement of the thermal effects of explosions and has assessed the heat dose generated by MOD munitions. He has also worked on new techniques for the safety assessment of energetic materials and in particular how they respond to heat.
Dr Williams has wide experience in Chemical & Biological Defence and teaches at postgraduate level on this subject.
Selected publications
Times to Explosion for Confined Explosives in ODTX Apparatus. M.R. Williams and M.V. Matei. Propellants, Explosives and PyrotechnicsEstimating the violence of Explosion in the ODTX Apparatus. M.R. Williams and Mariana Matei, Propellants, Explosives and Pyrotechnics
A Comparison of Some Advanced Oxidation Processes in a Batch Reactor. M.R. Williams and F. Sherlock., AOP2 Conference, Cranfield University, Bedford, UK, April 2004.
Thermal Output from Energetic Events – A Thermodynamic Approach. M.R. Williams, J.L.Dunne and I. Barnes. MABS 18 Conference, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, September 2004.
Co-author of Chapter in “Advanced Oxidation Processes for Waste and Wastewater Treatment”, Simon Parsons – Editor, IWA Publishing, 2004.
