Adjunct Professor
Richard Clegg
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Mech., Medical & Process Engineering
Biography
Dr.Clegg is a materials engineer/metallurgist and specialist in Engineering Failure Analysis. He is the Director and Principal Consultant at the materials consulting company Explicomand is an Adjunct Professor at QUT. From 2009 until 2021 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Engineering Failure Analysis and is now Honorary Editor of the journal. Dr.Clegg's career has been as a materials engineer in both academia and industry. After studying and working in the UK, Dr.Clegg returned in Brisbane in 1995 as lecturer and senior lecturer in Materials at QUT. In 2003 he moved to Gladstone as Professor of Industrial Materials Science at CQuniversity. From 2003 until 2012, he worked as a research professor on projects related to materials failure mechanisms important to the process industries in Central Queensland, after which he moved into a consulting role at Bureau Veritas Asset Integrity and Reliability Services in Brisbane. He has developed and taught a number of university courses in materials engineering at postgraduate and undergraduate levels. This includes a specialist postgraduate course on materials engineering in power generation stations, designed for the professional development of early and mid-career power station engineers. His principal research fields are fatigue and fracture of materials, particularly environmental fracture such as liquid metal embrittlement and stress corrosion cracking. He has also considerable research experience in degradation mechanism of high temperature materials used in process industries.He was Queensland Chairman and National Councilor for Materials Australia and amongst other memberships, is a Fellow of Engineers Australia and RPEQ. He has a B.E.(Hons) in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Queensland and a PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Mech., Medical & Process Engineering
Research field
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Cambridge)
- BEng (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Fellow: Engineers Australia, Registered Professional Engineering (RPEQ), Queensland, Certified Materials Professional: Materials Australia Member and Standards Committee Member: American Society for the Testing of Materials (ASTM) Member: ASM International Member: Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology
Teaching
First year Materials course (B.E. undergraduate) - 1995 to 2003, QUT Second year Materials courses (B.E. undergraduate) - 1995 to 2003, QUT Advanced Materials course (B.E. undergraduate) - 1995 to 2003, QUT Composite Materials (postgraduate) - 1998-1999, QUT Plant Materials (postgraduate) - 2007-2011, CQUniversity Final year engineering project students - 1995 to 2014, (QUT and CQU)
Experience
Dr.Clegg is an internationally recognized expert in engineering failure analysis and has over twenty five years of experience working as a materials engineer in industry and academic institutions, in both Australia and the UK. After a successful career in academia, he is now Principal Consultant in the Materials Investigation Unit at Bureau Veritas Asset Integrity and Reliability Services in Brisbane, where he provides professional services in engineering failure analysis. From 2009 until 2013, Dr.Clegg was the Editor-in-Chief of the premier international journal in the field, Engineering Failure Analysis. He has been co-chair of a number of international conferences including Structural Integrity and Fracture 2004 and the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th International Conferences on Engineering Failure Analysis. He is now working on the 9th conference in the series, which will be held in Shanghai in 2022.
Dr.Clegg has had considerable experience in working on materials degradation based projects with major process industries, both in running research projects and in providing consulting services. Most notably, he has worked with alumina refineries providing advice on the causes of engineering failures on the plant and developed several high level research projects with the refineries to develop better understanding of chronic problems such as high temperature corrosion and caustic cracking. His skills also include the application of fracture mechanics to risk based assessment using API579 and BS7910 and has used these skills in assessing risks in pressure equipment.
Much of Dr.Clegg's current work relates to insurance and legal matters concerning the cause of engineering failures. He is an experienced expert witness and was the principal metallurgical expert on the Murrindindi Mill 2009 Victorian Bushfires Class Action in 2014. He is experienced in presenting evidence in Court and in 2012, he received training in London from Bond Solon in providing expert evidence as part of Court proceedings (Report writing for legal proceedings and Courtroom Skills).
Publications
QUT ePrints
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