Cocks, Professor Alan

Academic background

• Ph.D. in Engineering, Cambridge (1981)
• MA, Oxford (2006)
• BSc Engineering. Leicester (1977)

Research interests

• Micromechanical modelling
• Creep deformation and failure
• Modelling powder processing – flow, compaction and sintering
• Modelling the performance of welded components
• Modelling the performance of Thermal Barrier Coating and other ceramic based systems
• Fracture of engineering materials

Recent Publications

• O. Barrera, A.C.F. Cocks and A.R.S. Ponter, The linear matching method applied to composite materials: a micromechanical approach, Comp. Sci. Tech.,71, 2011, 797-804.
• R.W. Style, S.S.L. Peppin and A.C.F.Cocks and J.S. Wettlaufer, Ice-lens formation and geometrical supercooling in soils and other colloidal materials, Phys. Rev. E, 84, 2011, 041402.
• A.C.F. Cocks and N.A. Fleck, Constrained sintering of an air-plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coating, Acta Mat, 58, 2010, 4233-4244.
• F. Fan, J.Z. Pan and A.C.F.Cocks, Defect healing and cracking in ceramic films during constrained sintering, Jnl. Am. Cer. Soc., to appear.
• O. Barrera and A.C.F. Cocks, Computational modelling of hydrogen embrittlement in welded structures, Phil Mag, to appear.
• A.R.S. Ponter and A.C.F. Cocks, Thermal ratchetting of polycrystalline materials with inhomogeneous thermal properties, Phil Mag, to appear.