Bradley Dodd

I started research in metalworking and fracture in the late 60s at Birmingham University Dept. of Industrial Metallurgy and I moved to the Dept. of Engineering Science, Oxford where I continued working on metal shaping but I also took an interest in strain rate effects. After a year at Yokohama National University working on forging with Prof. H. Kudo, I returned to Oxford where I started a 35-year long working partnership with Prof.Y. Bai. We wrote in 1987 our first joint book called Ductile Fracture and Ductility published by Academic Press. We were both very interested in adiabatic shear and we jointly authored the first book on the subject in 1992: Adiabatic Shear Localization: Occurrence, Theories and Applications published by Pergamon Press. After some years it became obvious to us that it would be impossible to write a second book on adiabatic shear because of the vast volume of research that had been done subsequently. Therefore, we decided to co-edit a book entitled:Adiabatic Shear Localization: Frontiers and Advances published by Elsevier in 2012.

Latterly I have become an Emeritus Professor in the Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College. I immediately saw a necessity for an introductory book to adiabatic shear bands for students and this has recently been published:Introduction to Adiabatic Shear Localization (revised edition) published by Imperial College Press in 2015.

I am an Emeritus member of the International Cold Forging Group and an Honorary member of Dymat (European Society for the Dynamic Properties of Materials)