R. Clegg, Process Engineering and Light Metals Centre, Central Queensland University, Gladstone Campus, Bryan Jordan Drive, Gladstone, QLD 4680, AustraliaProfessor Richard Clegg has been appointed the new Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Failure Analysis. Prof.Clegg is currently Director
of the Process Engineering and Light Metals Centre at Central Queensland University in Gladstone in Queensland in Australia, where he
runs a research group specialising in engineering failure analysis and plant reliability. Gladstone is a major port and centre for mineral
processing industries in Australia. It is also the gateway to a large coal mining precinct. Richard Clegg is a metallurgist who holds
degrees from the University of Queensland and the University of Cambridge, where he studied with D.R.H.Jones, founding Editor-in-Chief
of the journal. Richard Clegg has been involved in engineering failure analysis since 1985, first at the consulting company ETRS Pty
Ltd in Brisbane and later at the University of Cambridge, University College London, QUT and Central Queensland University. His main
research interests are in developing understandings of failure mechanisms operating the mining and mineral processing industries and
the role of engineering failure analysis in plant reliability engineering. He has worked as a consultant on several major engineering
failures in the Queensland minerals industry, as well as in a wide range of other forensic engineering activities. |