Norman Fleck#
| Membership Number: | 2112 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2001 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www-mech.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/fleck |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor of Mechanics and Materials
- Director of the Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics at Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanical behaviour of materials
- Micromechanics of deformation and fracture
- Fatigue, fracture and creep of engineering solids
- Plasticity theory and finite elements
- Metallic foams
- Powder compaction
- Ferroelectrics
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and Chartered Engineer in August 1997.
- June 2001 Member of Academia Europaea
- May 2004 Fellow of the Royal Society, London
- February 2005 Member of the European Academy of Sciences
- Fellow of the European Mechanics Society, May 2006. The first of 3 Fellows in Solid Mechanics since the inception of Fellows in 2006
- July 2008 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- 2011 Humboldt Research Award 2011
- 2013 ASME Koiter medal for International Leadership in Mechanics
- 2014 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Honorary doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causea) from Eindhoven University of Technology, 2014. One given each year
- Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 2014. AA Griffith medal in recognition of distinguished work to any branch of Materials Science
- 2015 - 2018 Distinguished Professor of the Eindhoven University of Technology,
- EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Prize 2015 (given every 4 years).
- 2001 ISI Highly cited researcher in Engineering
