Robert Ainsworth
Professor
Structural Integrity
University of Manchester
United Kingdom
Biography
Bob Ainsworth joined The University of Manchester as BNFL Professor of Structural Integrity in early 2011 after over 35 years in the UK electricity supply industry. There he was heavily involved in development of structural integrity assessment procedures, in particular the defect assessment procedure R6 and the high temperature assessment procedure R5. The central parts of R6 have been included in other procedures: for example, the British Standards document BS7910; the American Petroleum Institute/ASME procedure API/ASME FFS-1; and the European procedures SINTAP in 1999 and FITNET in 2006. The R6 procedures are used routinely in defect assessments on UK nuclear plant and are also used widely outside the nuclear industry. The R5 procedures are the UK power generation industry standard for assessing the lifetime of high temperature components and are also used worldwide.
Research Interest
Energy
Publications
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Application of the Microstructural Finite Element Alternating Method to assess the impact of specimen size and distributions of contact/residual stress fields on fatigue strength
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Dissimilar Metal Analysis and Issues
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T-stress solutions for through-wall circumferential cracks in straight pipes under bending
