Professor Emeritus Clive Bucknall
Professor Emeritus
Location: Building 61
E: c.b.bucknall@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750421
Manufacturing and Materials
Current activities
From August to December 2007, H A Morton Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Akron, Ohio. Duties include a 25 hour course of lectures on ‘Fracture Resistant Polymers’. Continuing activities, which are exemplified by a recent article on craze initiation, centre on new theoretical approaches to fracture of polymers and polymer blends.
Clients
- American Cyanamid
- BASF
- Dow Chemical
- EPSRC
- Exxon
- General Electric, USA
- ICI
- Kobe Steel
- RAE Farnborough
- Rohm & Haas
Background
Professor Emeritus Clive Bucknall read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, and worked for eight years in the plastics industry before joining Cranfield as a Research Fellow in 1967. His main area of research has been blending of polymers to obtain improved properties, especially fracture resistance. His achievements in this field have been recognised by Cambridge University (ScD degree), the Institute of Materials (Swinburne Award), and numerous invitations to present plenary lectures at international conferences. For ten years before his official retirement in 2001, Clive was Head of the Advanced Materials Department.
Selected publications
- ‘New criterion for craze initiation’, 2007, Polymer 48, 1030-1041
- ‘A model for particle cavitation in rubber-toughened plastics’, 1994, J Mater Sci 29, 3377. (with A Karpodinis and X C Zhang)
- ‘Dilatation bands in rubber toughened polymers’ 1993, J Mater Sci, 28, 6799 (with A. Lazzeri)
- ‘Toughened Plastics’, 1997, Applied Science Publishers, London
- ‘Stress whitening in high-impact polystyrenes’, 1965, Polymer 6, 437 (with R R Smith)
