Seminar
Professor Peter Flewitt Memorial Seminar
HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
July 16, 2025
This seminar, to be held on Wednesday July 16, 2025, is in honour of Professor Peter Flewitt FREng who sadly passed away on September 21, 2024.
Peter worked for the Central Electricity Generating Board and its successor companies where he held a series of senior technical management posts in the field of materials and structural integrity to support continued safe operation of nuclear and conventional power generation plants. Later in his career, Peter joined the University of Bristol becoming Visiting Professor at the Interface Analysis Centre in the School of Physics. Peter was also a director of the Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity (FESI) from when the forum was formed over 20 years ago.
Peter published over 250 papers and was co-author of three books. His awards included: DSc (1980) via Imperial College London for work on the inter-relationship between microstructure and properties of materials; Colclough Medal and Prize from The Institute of Materials (1997); Plowden Award from British Nuclear Energy Society (1993); Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1999); Honorary Professor at Beihang University, Beijing, China and Senior Fellow in the Department of Materials at Oxford University.
The seminar covers some of the many technical areas that Peter worked on and undertook research in with the various presentations being given by leading experts in their respective fields, from both industry and academia. The topics covered include reheat cracking, creep cavitation, high-temperature performance of power plant steels, microstructure characterisation, nuclear graphite, residual stresses, fracture toughness and crack-tip constraint.
It is intended that the seminar will be chaired by Bob Ainsworth and Andrew Sherry, both eminent professors in the field of engineering structural integrity.
There will be no fees for attending the seminar but attendees must register prior to the event.
Location
Mott Lecture Theatre,
HH Wills Physics Laboratory,
Tyndall Avenue,
Bristol BS8 1TL, UK
The seminar programme may be downloaded by following this link.
Speakers confirmed for the Professor Peter Flewitt Memorial Seminar:
Dr Martin Lamb
Principal Inspector–Nuclear Safety
Office for Nuclear Regulation
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Professor Bo Chen
Professor of Materials
University of Southampton
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Mr Mike Spindler
Engineer
EDF Energy
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Dr Tomas Martin
Associate Professor of Materials Physics
University of Bristol
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Professor Tony Wickham
Visiting Professor
University of Manchester
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Dr Harry Coules
Principal Structural Integrity Engineer
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Dr Nick Riddle
Rolls-Royce
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Dr Peter James
Mechanical Engineer
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