Professor Clive E Neal-Sturgess BSc, PhD, CEng, FIMechE, FIMMM, FHEA, FRSA, MemSAE(UK)
Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
email: c.e.n.sturgess@bham.ac.uk
As Director of the Automotive Safety Centre for thirteen years I have been in charge of the Birmingham section of the Co-operative Crash Injury Study (CCIS) financed by the DfT and a consortium of motor vehicle manufacturers. I have also been involved in successive European projects involving pedestrian injuries. I am a member of the Parliamentary advisory Committee on Transport Safety (PACTS), and the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC).
Key Experience:
As Director of the Automotive Safety Centre for thirteen years I have been in charge of the Birmingham section of the Co-operative Crash Injury Study (CCIS) financed by the DfT and a consortium of motor vehicle manufacturers. I have also been involved in successive European projects involving pedestrian injuries. I am a member of the Parliamentary advisory Committee on Transport Safety (PACTS), and the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC).
To date holder of 26 research contracts from EPSRC, DfT and EU, value £5.75m.
Professional History:
1965-67 Project Engineer, Clarkson International
1971-73 Chubb Res. Fellow, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Birmingham
1973-85 Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham
1985-89 Senior Lecturer, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham
1989 on Jaguar Professor of Automotive Engineering, School of Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham
1990-92 Director of Research, School of Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering
1992-93 Director, Automotive Engineering Centre, School of Man. & Mech. Engineering
1993-97 Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Man. & Mech. Engineering
1997-on Director of Automotive Safety Centre, School of Man. & Mech. Engineering
2001-04 Head of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, University of Birmingham
2004 on Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham
2006 on University Foundation Fellow
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Chartered Engineer CEng 1981
Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1987)
Fellow of the Institute of Materials (1995)
MEMBERSHIP OF OTHER BODIES
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member ITMA
Member of Engineering Integrity Society (EIS)
Affiliate Member, Institute of Physics
Member of the Engineering Professors Council Executive
Chairman Professors and Heads of Mechanical Engineering
Chairman of the Birmingham centre of the Automotive Division of IMechE
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Proc IMechE Journal of Materials: Design & Applications
Journal of Materials Processing Technology (Elsevier)
Journal of Research, University of Mauritius
Reviewer: J Applied Mechanics ASME, Int. J Mechanical Sciences.
163 publications in total
I was educated at King Edward VI Nuneaton, and commenced my career as a Student Apprentice at Clarkson International, a manufacturer of machine tools. After graduating with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Production Engineering from Lanchester College Coventry, I worked at the University of Birmingham on a research contract paid for by Clarkson’s, and took my PhD in the Forming of Tool Steels. This work actually involved numerous impact investigations, which has been a recurring theme throughout my career. I then became the Chubb Research Fellow investigating the high speed deformation properties of materials for use in safe and strong-room applications; again working in impact mechanics. I was appointed as a Lecturer in 1973, progressed through a Senior Lectureship to the Jaguar Chair of Automotive Engineering in 1988, and was finally Head of Mechanical Engineering at Birmingham. I spent the majority of my academic career researching Continuum Damage Mechanics and Finite Element Methods, and after being appointed as the Director of the Automotive Safety Centre I turned my attention to the deformation and damage of car occupants in impact conditions, again using Continuum damage mechanics concepts, in particular the application of the Clausius-Duhem Inequalty to injuries. My current research interests cover fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, the thermomechanical modelling of injuries as damage to biomechanical systems, and the relationships between injury criteria for dummies and real world injuries via injury risk functions.