Imperial College London

Professor Dan Balint

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical Engineering

Professor in Solid Mechanics
 
 
 
//

Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7084d.balint Website

 
 
//

Location

 

519City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

//

Summary

 

Awards

Membership of Professional Bodies

Industrial Connections

  • BP, Scaling in Pipe Failure Tests
  • Element Six Ltd, Multiscale investigation of failure in bonded diamond aggregates
  • Exponent, Analysis of Pipe Rupture; Fracture in Rail Car Wheel Assemblies; Mechanics of Hip & Spinal Implants
  • General Electric, Failure of Thermal Barrier Coatings
  • Geotechnical Consulting Group, Mesh Generation for Underground Tunnel Networks
  • QinetiQ, Interrupted Tension/Compression Testing for the Determination of Plasticity Model Parameters

Commercial Spinoffs

  • Impression Technologies, Impression Technologies has been formed by Imperial Innovations to bring to market forming and press technologies developed by Imperial College London (ICL).The first technology that is being brought to market is the Hot Form Quench (HFQ) technology for the forming of Aluminium. HFQ allows stiffer and stronger structural Aluminium panels to be formed, with lower costs, than has been possible to date.