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Professor Chris Smith

Position: Associate Professor
Discipline: Engineering
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Prof Chris Smith is Associate Professor in Functional Materials and a member of ATRI.

He graduated from the University of Leeds in 1992 and remained there to do a PhD in Biomaterials, graduating in 1995. He then worked as a post doctoral research fellow at the Universities of York and Exeter. He was appointed Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering in January 2000, Senior Lecturer in 2006, and Associate Professor in Functional Materials in 2008.

http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3474-2009

Current h index = 10, g index = 4

A PhD studentship is available for an industrially funded project on honeycombs with enhanced properties, to be formally advertised shortly.  Please enquire via email for further details.

Research Interests

­His research interests are in adding functionality into materials (often termed 'smart' or 'intelligent' materials), via understnading and engineering of their structure and physical properties. This work has focussed on negative Poisson's ratio, zero or negative thermal expansivity, and disorder, but of late also examining negative stiffness and mass, and vibration damping. He is interested in relating internal structure to unusual physical phenomena, in both synthetic and biological materials. He has a long standing interest in Biomimetics or Bionics - the transfer of technology from biological to synthetic.

Teaching Interests

Prof Smith teaches modules including, ECM1107 Materials & Manufacturing: Core Engineering II, ECM2114 Solid Mechanics, ECM3116/7 Manufacturing, ECMM105 New Developments in Materials Engineering, ECMM107 Mechanics of Materials, and supervises individual and group projects.

He has in the past taught parts of COM1409 Social and Professional Issues, and SOE2120 Professional Studies and Skills Development.

Other Relevant Information

Prof Smith is currently a member of EPSRC college (06-09), and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and referees manuscripts for several international research journals.

He is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Bionic Engineering http://tinyurl.com/2ypx88, a founding editor of the new International Journal of Novel Materials http://tinyurl.com/ccsts7 , and has guest edited -

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series A, special edition “Biomimetics: Technology Transfer from Biology to Engineering”, 2002, Volume 360, Number 1791.

Physica Status Solidi B, special edition on Auxetics 2007 published in early 2008

He has given invited lectures at the University of Wisconsin “The Mohs Lectures by Placon” series at the Rheology Research Center - http://rrc.engr.wisc.edu/ and at The Univeristy of Jilin (China), The Technical University of Ilmenau (Germany), The Jozef Stefan Institute, Physics (Slovenia), and several UK univeristies.

He was Conference Organiser for the “1st International Conference on Auxetics and Related Anomalous Systems” Exeter, Sept 2006 -  http://latis.exeter.ac.uk/auxetics2006/index.htm and has served on several conference scinetific committees, incl national committee member for the ICCM 17 conference in 2009.

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Prof Smith was Associate Dean of Postgraduate Studies (05-07), Admissions Officer for Engineering Programmes (04-08) and is chair of the working parties on new qualifications incl Diploma and Cambridge Pre-U

Prof Smith the HE Advocate for the Engineering Diploma in the Peninsular region from 07- current.

Qualifications: BSc, PhD

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Publications

    In Press

  • Abramovitch H. Burgard M, Edery-Azulay L, Evans KE, Hoffmeister M, Miller W, Scarpa F, Smith CW, Tee K. F. (2009): Smart tetrachiral and hexachiral honeycomb: sensing and impact detection, Composites Science and Technology

  • Alderson A, Alderson KL, Miller W, Attard D, Farrugia PS, Gatt R, Zied KM, Ravirala N, Grima JN, Smith CW, Evans KE (2009): The in-plane linear elastic constants of 3-, 4- and 6- connected chiral and antichiral honeycombs, Composites Science and Technology

  • Bianchi M, Scarpa F, Smith CW (2009): Shape memory behaviour in auxetic foams: mechanical properties, Acta Materialia

  • Lorato A, Innocenti P, Scarpa F, Alderson A , Alderson KL, Zied KM , Ravirala N, Miller W, Smith CW, Evans KE (2009): The transverse elastic properties of chiral honeycombs, Composites Science and Technology

    2008

  • Miller, W., Mackenzie, D.S., Smith, C.W., Evans, K.E. (2008): A Generalised Scale-independent Mechanism for Tailoring of Thermal Expansivity; Positive and Negative, Mechanics of Materials, 40, pp 351-361

  • Bianchi M, Scarpa FL and Smith CW (2008): Stiffness and energy dissipation in polyurethane auxetic foams, Journal of Materials Science, 43, pp 5851

  • Miller W, Smith CW, Burgess AN, Dooling PJ, Evans KE (2008): Tailored Thermal Expansivity in Particulate Composites for Thermal Stress Management., Physica Status Solidi b, 245, pp 552-556

  • Scarpa, F., Smith, C.W., Ruzzene, M. and Wadee, M.K. (2008): Mechanical properties of auxetic tubular truss-like structures, Phys. Status Solidi B, 245, pp 584-590

    2007

  • Williams, J.J., Smith, C.W., Evans, K.E., Lethbridge, Z.A.D. and Walton, R.I. (2007): Off-Axis Elastic Properties and the Effect of Extra-Framework Species on Structural Flexibility of the NAT-type Zeolites: Simulations of Structure and Elastic Properties, Chemistry of Materials, 19 (10), pp 2423-2434

  • Horrigan, E.J., Javadi, A.A., Smith, C.W., Gaspar, N., Evans, K.E. (2007): Disordered Microstructures and Anomalous Physical Properties, 5th International Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams, Montreal, Canada.

  • Williams, J.J., Smith, C.W., Evans, K.E., Lethbridge, Z.A.D. and Walton, R.I. (2007): Development of An Analytical Model to Produce Negative Poisson\'s Ratios and its Application for Explaining Off-Axis Elastic Properties of the NAT-type Zeolites, Acta Mat (in press), 55 (17), pp 5697-5707

    2006

  • Ren X. J., Smith C. W., Evans K. E., Dooling P. J., Burgess A., Wiechers J., Zahlan N. (2006): Experimental and numerical investigations of the deformation of soft materials under tangential loading, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 43 (7-8), pp 2364-2377

  • Javadi, A.A., Evans, K.E. and Smith, C.W. (2006): Optimum design of auxetic materials using evolutionary algorithms and finite element method,, UK Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering Conference, 2006

  • Javadi, A.A., Smith, C.W. and Evans, K.E. (2006): Topological optimisation of auxetic materials using evolutionary algorithms, abstract submitted to the First International Conference on Auxetics and Anomalous Systems, 4-6 September 2006, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

  • Javadi, A.A., Smith, C.W., Evans, K.E., Farmani, R., Abu alghanam, R. (2006): Topology optimisation of auxetic materials, ACME Conference, Dublin

  • Lethbridge, Z.A.D., Williams, J.J., Walton, R.I., Smith, C.W., Hooper, R.M. and Evans, K.E. (2006): Direct, Static Measurement of Single Crystal Young\'s Moduli of the Zeolite Natrolite: Comparison with Dynamic Studies and Simulations, Acta Materialia, 54, pp 2533-2545

  • Ren, X.J., Smith, C.W., Evans, K.E., Dooling, P.J., Burgess, A.N., Zahlan, N., Rawlings, A.V. and Wiechers, J.W. (2006): Experimental Testing and Numerical Modelling of Human Skin, IFSCC Magazine, 8, pp 95-98

    2005

  • Gaspar N., Ren X.J., Smith C.W., Grima, J.N., Evans K.E. (2005): Novel Honeycombs with Auxetic Behaviour, Acta Materialia, 53, pp 2439-2445

  • Gaspar, N., Smith, C.W., Behne, E.A., Seidler, G.T., and Evans, K.E. (2005): Quantitative Analysis of the Microscale of Auxetic Foams, Physica Status Solidi B, 242, pp 550-560

  • He, C., Liu, P., Griffin, A.C., Smith, C.W., Evans, K.E. (2005): Morphology and Deformation Behaviour of a Liquid Crystalline Polymer Containing Laterally Attached Pentaphenyl Rods, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 206, pp 233-239

  • Lethbridge, Z.A.D., Williams, J.J., Walton, R.I., Evans, K.E. and Smith, C.W. (2005): Methods for the Synthesis of Large Crystals of Silicate Zeolites, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 79, pp 339-352

  • Ren XJ, Smith CW, Evans KE, Dooling PJ, Burgess AN, Zahlan N, Rawlings AV (2005): Experimental Testing and Numerical Modelling of Human Skin, IFSCC Magazine, 8, pp 95-98

  • Sanchez-Valle, C., Sinogeikin, S.V., Lethbridge, Z.A.D., Walton, R.I., Smith, C.W., Evans, K.E., Bass, J.D. (2005): Brillouin scattering study on the single-crystal elastic properties of natrolite (NAT) and analcime (ANA) zeolites, J Appl Phys, pp accepted for publication

  • Smith CW, Tan KH, Evans KE, Resendes R, Bartole-Scott A and Manners I (2005): Mechanical Properties of the Novel Organometallic Polymer Poly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane), Journal of Polymer Science B: Polymer Physics, pp accepted for publication

    2004

  • Gaspar, N., Smith, C.W., Behn, E., Seidler, G.T, Evans, K.E (2004): Quantitative analysis of the microstructure of auxetic foams, Workshop on Auxetics and Related System, Bedlewo, Poznan, Poland.

    2003

  • Gaspar, N., Smith, C.W. and Evans, K.E. (2003): Effect of heterogeneity on the mechanical response of auxetic materials, Journal of Applied Physics, 94, pp 6143-6149

    2001

  • Smith C.W., Winlove C.P. (2001): Elastic Behavior of Biological Materials, Buschow K H J, Cahn R W, Flemings M C, Ilschner B, Kramer E J, Mahajan S, Elsevier, 3, pp 2386-2389

  • Smith CW and Vincent JFV (2001): Technology Transfer from Biology to Engineering, Phil Trans Roy Soc A, 360, pp 155-157

    2000

  • Herbert, R. C., Young, P. G., Smith, C. W., Wootton, R. J. and Evans, K. E (2000): The hind wing of the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria Forskal). III. A finite element analysis of a deployable structure, Journal of Experimental Biology, 203, pp 2945-2955

  • Smith C.W., Grima J.N. and Evans K.E., (2000): Novel mechanism producing negative Poisson’s ratios in reticulated foams, Acta Materialia, 48, pp 4349-4356

  • 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, 203, pp 2933-2943

  • Wootton, R. J., Evans, K. E., Herbert, R. and Smith, C. W (2000): The hind wing of the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria Forskal). I. Functional morphology and mode of operation, Journal of Experimental Biology, 203, pp 2921-2931

    1999

  • Smith C.W., Lehman F., Wootton, R.J. and Evans K.E (1999): Strain Densification During Indentation in Auxetic Foams, Cellular Polymers, 18, pp 79-101

  • 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, 39, pp 356-362

  • Zioupos P., Smith C.W. and An Y.H (1999): Factors Affecting Mechanical Properties of Bone, An Y.H., Draughn R.A., CRC Press, pp Chapter 4

    1996

  • Smith C.W., Kearney J.N (1996): Effects of Irradiation Sterilisation on the Mechanical Properties of Tendon., Materials in Medicine, Journal of Materials Science, 7, pp 645-659

  • Smith C.W., Kearney J.N. and Young I.S. (1996): Mechanical Properties of Tendons; Changes with Sterilisation and Preservation, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 118, pp 56-61

    • 47 publications listed