ROBERT O. RITCHIE
Structural Materials Dept.
Materials Sciences Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, CA, USA
E-mail: RORitchie@ldl.gov
Web: www.lbl.gov/Ritchie
EDUCATION
B.A. (Physics & Metallurgy), Cambridge University, UK, 1969
M.A. (Materials Science), Cambridge University, UK, 1973
Ph.D. (Materials Science), Cambridge University, UK, 1973
Sc.D. (Materials Science), Cambridge University, UK, 1990
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of Materials Science, University of California
at Berkeley, 1982 to date
Head, Structural Materials Department, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, 1995 to date
Faculty Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1984
to date
Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth, UK, 1992 to date
Director, Center for Advanced Materials, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
1987-95
Deputy Director, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
1990-94
Visiting Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 1994
Class of 1922 Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1979-81
Assistant Professor, 1977-78; Associate Professor, 1978-81; Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
MA
Miller Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, 1974-76
Goldsmith's Research Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University,
UK, 1972-74
MAJOR RESEARCH AREAS
Fatigue and fracture of ceramic and intermetallic materials:
Toughening mechanisms in monolithic and composite materials (e.g., SiC,
gamma-TiAl); layered structures; mechanisms of fatigue-crack propagation
at ambient to elevated temperatures; role of microstructure;
Ceramic/metal interfaces: Fracture mechanics of bimaterial interfaces;
strength and toughness of interfaces; interfacial subcritical crack growth;
crack path considerations;
Mechanical properties of diamond films: Indentation toughness;
stress corrosion and fatigue; residual stress measurements using Raman
spectroscopy;
Damage-tolerance and life prediction in biomedical implants: Fracture
and fatigue properties of metallic and pyrolytic carbon materials for
prosthetic heart valve devices;
Mechanical propertites of carbon nanotubes
Fracture and fatigue in shape-memory alloys and bulk amorphous metals
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