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Dr Robert Bulpett |
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Dr Bob Bulpett is the Director of the Experimental Techniques Centre and is responsible for the confidential analytical and consultancy service provided to commercial clients. The service was established in 1975 and more than three hundred investigations are currently undertaken each year for private individuals, local companies and multinational industries. We are an accredited laboratory under the UKAS scheme for analysis by X-ray and electron beam methods, with applications to environmental analysis, asbestos identification and materials analysis. Dr Bulpett’s own areas of particular expertise lie in materials characterisation, engineering failure analysis, surface analysis and engineering production process investigations. He has provided expert opinion in connection with litigation and has presented expert witness evidence in the High Court. Bob worked in state and private industry as a research metallurgist and as a research physicist. He then joined a specialist electrical and electronics manufacturer as a production assistant before moving into employment in higher education in late 1970. Dr Bulpett has over 30 years experience in the application of microscopy and analytical techniques to the study and characterisation of materials
Dr Bulpett is a Chartered Scientist, a member of the Institute of Physics, The Royal Microscopical Society and various analytical user groups. He is also a member of the ISO and BSI Technical Committees on 'Surface Chemical Analysis' and 'Electron Microprobe Analysis' |
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Publications include the following articles, click on a link for the publishers’ website (via DOI) some articles are also available on the University’s open access system, BURA:
“Failure Analysis of a Steel Motorcycle Kickstand”
“Diamond-like carbon / epoxy combination low-friction coatings to replace electroplated chromium”
“Energy efficiency improvements in dry drilling with optimised diamond-like carbon coatings”
“A study of fatigue failure initiation in high cycle high-pressure automotive applications and conventional rotating bending fatigue testing”
“Effect of transient liquid-phase bonding variables on the properties of a micro-duplex stainless steel” T.I. Khan, M.J. Kabir, R. Bulpett Materials Science and Engineering A - Structural materials properties, microstructure and processing 372 (2004) 290
Wear 162 (1993) 1059
G. Buckton, R. Bulpett, N. Verma International Journal of Pharmaceutics 72 (1991) 157 |
