{"name": "Bryan Harris", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "BSc (1st class) in Industrial Metallurgy, University of Birmingham, 1956\r\nPhD in Metal Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1962\r\nDSc in Materials, University of Birmingham, 1975 \r\n\r\nI worked in metallurgical research at ICI (Metals Division), Birmingham, and at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Connecticut, USA, before becoming an academic, first at Sussex University and subsequently at the University of Bath where I was Professor of Materials Science from 1976 until retirement in 2000.\r\nMy main areas of academic research have been in the fracture and fatigue behaviour of fibre-composite materials, manufacturing of composites, non-destructive evaluation of composites and composite structures, the mechanical behaviour of biological materials (including wood), and the environmental deterioration of building materials.\r\nSince retiring, I have been working as  Materials Consultant to Buro Happold Civil Engineers Ltd. and have carried out extensive work on urban air-quality modelling on behalf of the Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust.\r\nFrom 1984 to 2001 I was  Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Composites Science & Technology published by Elsevier Science, Oxford.\r\n\r\nFor list of publications go to Google Scholar:\r\nhttps://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=cyNuR7AAAAAJ"}, "personal_name": "Bryan Harris", "photos": [6276113], "birth_date": "18 August 1935", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "links": [{"url": "http://www.harribr.talktalk.net/", "title": "Website", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "key": "/authors/OL1191109A", "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-04-22T22:21:45.785909"}}