Curfew Tags: Mechanical Fatigue Tests Reference: DPC/010/Fatigue/Issue1

I understand that it is my duty to help the court on matters within my expertise and that this duty overrides any obligation to the person from whom I have received instructions. I have complied with that duty and will continue to do so. I have done my best to be accurate and complete. I believe that the matters of fact stated in my report are true, and the opinions I have expressed represent my true and complete professional opinion. Consultant for Double Precision Consultancy. I specialise in the mechanics of materials and I am expert in the application of the finite element method and in the characterisation and testing of materials. I am the recipient of the Armourers and Brasiers' Fellowship Award and a member of the Institute of Materials. I have collaborated closely with industrialists and with scientists from government agencies including EDF Energy, Rolls Royce, the Ministry of Defence and the Atomic Weapons Establishment. My peer-reviewed work has been published in international journals and I have been invited to speak at several international conferences. Consultancy Projects Fibretech Products Ltd. (In progress): Porosity and permeability measurements on pressure-cast, steel fibre-reinforced ceramic composites. Anglian Home Improvements (In progress): Residual stresses, viscoelasticity and creep deformation as distortion mechanisms in extruded PVC-U products. Allen & Overy (2013 – 2014): Elastic finite element simulations of asymmetrically-loaded washing machine drums. Patent dispute. Tata Steel (2013): Fluid flow and thermal conditions during oxygen injection lance steelmaking. Anglian Home Improvements (2013): Measurement and finite element modelling of heat flow characteristics through PVC-U products. Solar Turbines (2012): Development of constitutive models describing single crystal plasticity and creep in nickel-based super-alloys for implementation into finite element models. EDF Energy (2011-2012): Analysis of neutron-irradiated, reactor-core graphite data to develop mechanical constitutive models for " useful life " prediction using finite element modelling.