Professor Clive Siviour
Teaching activities
I give tutorials in structures, mechanics and materials, and have lectured on the following topics:
1st year: Vectors and Matrices
2nd year: Dynamics of Machines, Vibrations, Probability and Statistics
3rd year: Ceramics, Polymers, Plasticity
4th year: Impact Engineering
More information about the course can be found on the department website
Having completed my MPhys and PhD degrees at the Universty of Cambridge, I moved to Oxford in 2005, initially as a Career Development Fellow, associated with St Hilda's college, and then, in 2008, as a University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke.
In 2016 my contributions to Experimental Mechanics were recognised by an invitation to give the JSA Young Investigator Lecture at the annual conference of the Society for Experimental Mechanics. I was made a full professor in the Department of Engineering in 2018.
I am currently Associate Head of Department for Infrastructure in Engineering.
My research investigates the behaviour of materials and structures when subjected to impact loading, for example in car crashes or when you drop your mobile phone! Most materials behave very differently when deformed at high speeds, and our research aims to measure this behaviour and understand the microscopic causes of rate dependence with a view to better design and use of materials for safety and sustainability. We perform research on a wide range of materials, including aerospace alloys (e.g. Titanium), polymers and natural materials, such as silk. Currently, we have a particularly strong activity understanding the response of soft polymers and composites under impact.
Selected publications:
B Mortimer, A Soler, CR Siviour and F Vollrath “Remote Monitoring of vibrational information in spider webs” The Science of Nature, 105 (2018), 37 (9 pp) doi: 10.1007/s00114-018-1561-1
J Harvey, HE Smithson, CR Siviour “Visualization of acoustic waves in air and subsequent audio recovery with a high-speed schlieren imaging system: Experimental and computational development of a schlieren microphone” Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 107 (2018), 182–193, doi: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2018.03.015
S-H Yoon and CR Siviour, “Application of the Virtual Fields Method to a relaxation behaviour of rubbers” JMPS 116 (2018), 416-431 doi: 10.1016/j.jmps.2016.09.001
A Feula, X Tang, I Giannakopoulos, AM Chippindale, IW Hamley, F Greco, CP Buckley, CR Siviour and W Hayes, “An adhesive elastomeric supramolecular polyurethane healable at body temperature”, Chem. Sci., (2016), 7, 4291 (10 pp) doi: 10.1039/C5SC04864H
MJ Kendall and CR Siviour “Experimentally simulating adiabatic conditions: Approximating high rate polymer behaviour using low rate experiments with temperature profiles” Polymer 54 (2013) 5058-5063 doi: 10.1016/j.polymer.2013.06.049
EJ Wielewski, CR Siviour and N Petrinic "On the Correlation between Macrozones and Twinning in Ti-6Al-4V at Very High Strain Rates" Scripta Materialia, 67 (2102) 229-232, doi: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2012.04.026
A full list of publications can be found here.
Professor Clive Siviour
Teaching activities
I give tutorials in structures, mechanics and materials, and have lectured on the following topics:
1st year: Vectors and Matrices
2nd year: Dynamics of Machines, Vibrations, Probability and Statistics
3rd year: Ceramics, Polymers, Plasticity
4th year: Impact Engineering
More information about the course can be found on the department website
Having completed my MPhys and PhD degrees at the Universty of Cambridge, I moved to Oxford in 2005, initially as a Career Development Fellow, associated with St Hilda's college, and then, in 2008, as a University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke.
In 2016 my contributions to Experimental Mechanics were recognised by an invitation to give the JSA Young Investigator Lecture at the annual conference of the Society for Experimental Mechanics. I was made a full professor in the Department of Engineering in 2018.
I am currently Associate Head of Department for Infrastructure in Engineering.
My research investigates the behaviour of materials and structures when subjected to impact loading, for example in car crashes or when you drop your mobile phone! Most materials behave very differently when deformed at high speeds, and our research aims to measure this behaviour and understand the microscopic causes of rate dependence with a view to better design and use of materials for safety and sustainability. We perform research on a wide range of materials, including aerospace alloys (e.g. Titanium), polymers and natural materials, such as silk. Currently, we have a particularly strong activity understanding the response of soft polymers and composites under impact.
Selected publications:
B Mortimer, A Soler, CR Siviour and F Vollrath “Remote Monitoring of vibrational information in spider webs” The Science of Nature, 105 (2018), 37 (9 pp) doi: 10.1007/s00114-018-1561-1
J Harvey, HE Smithson, CR Siviour “Visualization of acoustic waves in air and subsequent audio recovery with a high-speed schlieren imaging system: Experimental and computational development of a schlieren microphone” Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 107 (2018), 182–193, doi: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2018.03.015
S-H Yoon and CR Siviour, “Application of the Virtual Fields Method to a relaxation behaviour of rubbers” JMPS 116 (2018), 416-431 doi: 10.1016/j.jmps.2016.09.001
A Feula, X Tang, I Giannakopoulos, AM Chippindale, IW Hamley, F Greco, CP Buckley, CR Siviour and W Hayes, “An adhesive elastomeric supramolecular polyurethane healable at body temperature”, Chem. Sci., (2016), 7, 4291 (10 pp) doi: 10.1039/C5SC04864H
MJ Kendall and CR Siviour “Experimentally simulating adiabatic conditions: Approximating high rate polymer behaviour using low rate experiments with temperature profiles” Polymer 54 (2013) 5058-5063 doi: 10.1016/j.polymer.2013.06.049
EJ Wielewski, CR Siviour and N Petrinic "On the Correlation between Macrozones and Twinning in Ti-6Al-4V at Very High Strain Rates" Scripta Materialia, 67 (2102) 229-232, doi: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2012.04.026
A full list of publications can be found here.