Robert O. Ritchie
LBNL Faculty Senior Scientist
Professor and Chair of Materials
Science & Engineering
Univ. of California, Berkeley
rortichie@lbl.gov,
ritchie@berkeley.edu
phone: 510 486-5798
Education
B.A. Physics & Metallurgy, Cambridge University
Ph.D.
Materials Science, Cambridge University
Sc.D. Materials Science,
Cambridge Univeristy
Goldsmith’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge
University
Miller Research Fellow, UC Berkeley
- Major Awards
2007 A.A. Griffith Medal, Institute of Materials,
London, UK
2002 Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
2001 Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
1984 America’s
Top 100 Young Scientists by Science Digest Magazine
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- General Reseach Interests
Development of Nature inspired structural materials
Mechanical behavior of hard mineralized tissue such as bone and
teeth;
High-cycle fatigue of turbine engine alloys such as Ti-6Al-4V;
Ni-base alloys; grain-boundary engineering;
Fatigue and fracture of ceramic and intermetallic materials:
toughening mechanisms in monolithic and composite materials (e.g.,
SiC, gamma-TiAl); layered structures; mechanisms of fatigue-crack
propagation at ambient to elevated temperatures; role of microstructure;
Ceramic/metal interfaces: fracture mechanics of bimaterial interfaces;
strength and toughness of interfaces; interfacial subcritical
crack growth; crack path considerations;
Damage-tolerance and life prediction in biomedical implants:
fracture and fatigue properties of metallic and pyrolytic carbon
materials for stents and prosthetic heart valve devices;
Fracture and fatigue of silicon films for MEMS devices: micro-
and nano-scale testing; protective coatings;
Mechanical propertites of carbon nanotubes
Fracture and fatigue in shape-memory alloys and bulk amorphous
metals
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- MSD Research Projects:
Mechanical Behavior of Advanced Materials
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- Personal website: http://www.lbl.gov/Ritchie/
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