| RefNo | EC/1996/34 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Smith, Edwin: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1993 |
| Description | Citation typed on separate piece of paper, then pasted onto certificate |
| Citation | A materials scientist, Smith made important early contributions to the theory of continuous distribution of dislocations. Subsequently he has written extenxively on the theory of dislocations, cracks, and notches. An excellent physical insight has enabled him to obrain effective results repeatedly from models based on engineering mechanics and the representation of plasticity by dislocations. After early fracture work using the concept of the crack opening displacement, studies of wedge cracks led to the first quantitative account of the effect of second phase particles on the cleavage fracture of steels. This has received wide application. From the earely seventies he hasa been concerned increasingly with the theoretical discussion of safety issues arising mainly from work with the nuclear industries of Canada, the U.K. and the U.S.A. This work has resulted particularly in a number of incisive papers about the safety of reactor pipework. Other topics where he has made valuable contributions to understanding in the reactor safety field include pellet-cladding interactions, stress-corrosion cracking, crack arrest, crack growth and crack driving force parameter estimation. Recently he has applied the simple modelling at which he is so adept to the behaviour of materials where the crack faces are bridged by restraining elements. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4901 | Smith; Edwin (1931 - 2010) | 1931 - 2010 |