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Professor Clive Siviour

Professor of Engineering Science

Department of Engineering Science,

University of Oxford,
Parks Road,
Oxford,
OX1 3PJ
+44 1865 2 73132
clive.siviour@eng.ox.ac.uk

Education

• Ph.D. in Experimental Physics, ‘High Rate

Properties of Materials Using Hopkinson Bar
Techniques’, University of Cambridge (2005)
• MA, M.Sci. in Theoretical and Experimental Physics,
University of Cambridge (2001)

Research
interests

• Properties of materials under high strain rate

deformation
• High speed photography and image analysis
• Polymers, Rubbers, Composites

Other
appointments
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• Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College

Past Positions

• 2005-2008 Career Development Fellow, Department

of Engineering Science, Oxford
• 2005-2008 Stipendiary Lecturer and Senior Tutor in
Engineering, St Hilda’s College, Oxford

Current research
projects

• POLYURETHANES - Supramolecular
Polyurethanes and their Composites: Properties and
Engineering Performance (with University of
Reading)
• USAF - Novel techniques for characterizing and
understanding the response of rubbers and rubber-
based composites to impact loading
• METALS - Investigations of rate and temperature
dependence in aerospace metal alloys
• SHARD – Silk in high rate applications and research
into damage tolerance (with the Oxford Silk Group
• LOW RATE – Understanding high rate behaviour
through low rate analogue

Recent
Publications

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Selected
Publications

• S-H Yoon, I Giannakopoulos and CR Siviour

“Application of the Virtual Fields Method to the
uniaxial behaviour of rubbers at medium strain
rates” International Journal of Solids and Structures
69-70 (2015) 553-568 doi:
10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2015.04.017 (doi link)
• CR Siviour, JL Jordan, “High Strain Rate
Mechanics of Polymers: A Review”, J. dynamic
behaviour mater. (2016): 2:15-32 doi:
10.1007/s40870-016-0052-8 (doi link)
• MJ Kendall and CR Siviour “Experimentally
simulating high-rate behaviour: rate and temperature
effects in polycarbonate and PMMA” Phil. Trans. R.
Soc. A (2014) 372 20130202 (12 pp) doi:
10.1098/rsta.2013.0202 (doi link)
• 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 link)
• DR Drodge, B Mortimer, C Holland and CR
Siviour "Ballistic Impact to access the high-rate
behaviour of individual silk fibres", Journal of the
Mechanics and Physics of Solids 60 (2012) 1710-
1721 (doi link)
• 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 link)
• R Gerlach, CR Siviour, J Wiegand and N Petrinic
"In-plane and through-thickness properties, failure
modes, damage and delamination in 3D woven
carbon fibre composites subjected to impact
loading" Composites Science and Technology, 72
(2012) 397-411 (doi link)
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Bonded Sugar: their dependence on applied and
internal constraints” Proc. R. Soc. A. 464 (2008)
1229-1255 (doi link)
• CR Siviour, SM Walley, WG Proud and JE Field
“The high strain rate compressive behaviour of
polycarbonate and polyvinylidene difluoride”
Polymer 46 (2005) 12546-12555.

Institutional
activities

• Former member of the Governing board of DYMAT :

the European Association for the promotion of
research into the dynamic behaviour of materials
and its applications