Dr Robert Bulpett - MPhil PhD FRMS MInstP CPhys
Advanced Research Fellow
Brunel University
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Dr Bob Bulpett retired from the Directorship of the Experimental Techniques Centre in July 2011. Working in ETC for 41 years, Dr Bulpett coordinated more than two hundred investigations each year for private individuals, local companies and multinational industries.
Dr Bulpett’s continues to be active in research and his own areas of particular expertise lie in materials characterisation, engineering failure analysis, surface analysis and engineering production process investigations. He has provided expert opinion in connection with litigation and has presented expert witness evidence in the High Court.
Bob worked in state and private industry as a research metallurgist and as a research physicist. He then joined a specialist electrical and electronics manufacturer as a production assistant before moving into employment in higher education in late 1970. Dr Bulpett has recently published a book “Design Against Fracture and Failure” based on over 30 years experience in the application of microscopy and analytical techniques to the study and characterisation of Physicist, Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, a member of the Institute of Physics and various analytical user groups. He is also a member of the ISO and BSI Technical Committees on 'Surface Chemical Analysis' and 'Electron Microprobe Analysis'
Publications
Journal Papers
(2010) Glot, AB., Mazurik, SV., Jones, BJ., Bondarchuk, AN., Bulpett, R. and Verma, N., Current limiting and negative differential resistance in indium oxide based ceramics, Journal of the European Ceramic Society 30 (2) : 539- 544 Download publication
(2009) Podgoric, S., Jones, BJ., Bulpett, R., Troisi, G. and Franks, J., Diamond-like carbon/epoxy low-friction coatings to replace electroplated chromium, Wear 267 (5-8) : 996- 1001 Download publication
(2009) Huda, Z., Shi, KW. and Bulpett, R., Failure analysis of a steel motorcycle kickstand, Jounal of Failure Analysis and Prevention 9 (4) : 305- 309 Download publication
(2008) Zolgharni, M., Jones, BJ., Bulpett, R., Anson, AW. and Franks, J., Energy efficiency improvements in dry drilling with optimised diamond-like carbon coatings, Diamond and Related Materials 17 (7-10) : 1733- 1737 Download publication
(2007) Kabir, MJ. and Bulpett, R., A study of fatigue failure initiation in high cycle high-pressure automotive applications and conventional rotating bending fatigue testing, International Journal of Fatigue 29 (9-11) : 1966- 1970
(2004) Khan, TI., Kabir, MJ. and Bulpett, R., Effect of transient liquid-phase bonding variables on the properties of a micro-duplex stainless steel, Materials Science and Engineering A 372 (1-2) : 290- 295
(1993) Bulpett, R., Eyre, TS. and Ralph, B., The characterization of white layers formed on digger teeth, Wear 162-164, Part 2 1059- 1065
(1991) Buckton, G., Bulpett, R. and Verma, N., Surface analysis of pharmaceutical powders: x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) related to powder wettability, International Journal of Pharmaceutics 72 (2) : 157- 162
(1990) Anwar, M., Hogarth, CA. and Bulpett, R., An XPS study of amorphous MοO3/SiO films deposited by coevaporation, Journal of Materials Science 25 (3) : 1784- 1788
(1989) Anwar, M., Hogarth, CA., Khan, GA. and Bulpett, R., X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic (XPS) investigations of etching and annealing effects on thin films of MoO3, Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 44 (8) : 789- 793
(1989) Anwar, M., Hogarth, CA. and Bulpett, R., Effect of substrate temperature and film thickness on the surface structure of some thin amorphous films of MoO3 studied by X-ray photoelectron, Journal of Materials Science 24 (9) : 3087- 3090
(1989) Anwar, M., Khan, GA., Hogarth, CA. and Bulpett, R., X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic studies of thin amorphous films of MoO3/In2O3 (deposited by co-evaporation), Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 44 (8) : 785- 788
(1988) Glott, AB., Hogarth, CA. and Bulpett, R., Voltage contrast imaging of zinc-oxide ceramics, International Journal of Electronics 65 (4) : 797- 804
(1985) Glot, AB., Hogarth, CA., Bulpett, R. and Reynolds, AJ., Characterization of the ZnO-SnO2-CoO-Bi2O3 ceramic material sintered at high temperature, Journal of Materials Science Letters 4 (8) : 963- 966
(1984) Bulpett, R., Electron probe X-ray microanalysis of surfaces and thin films, Vacuum 34 (3-4) : 481- 486
Conference Papers
(2003) Oliver, GD. and Bulpett, R., Metallographic and hardness analysis of arced sugar cane rollers, 2nd International Conference of the African Materials Research Society 2003, Building Partnerships for Excellence in Materials Research in Africa
