Publications & Lectures
THE BASIC CONSTRUCTION OF BODY ARMOUR (why it is not stab resistant)
published in the Diagnostic Engineering Journal November/December 1994.
page 2001/2002.
A E Birkbeck. Ballistics and Impact Group.
BALLISTIC IMPACT AND PENETRATION RESISTANCE OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS.
presented at the Computational Plasticity Fundamentals and Applications.
Barcelona April 1995. page 1913/1922
A E Birkbeck and R D Thomson. Ballistics and Impact Group.
QUANTIFYING THE FORCES INVOLVED IN STABBING INCIDENTS.
presented at the 4th ACME-UK 1996 conference, page 65/68
J Ankerson, S Allen, A E Birkbeck, R D Thomson. Ballistics and Impact Group.
P Vanezis. Department of Forensic Medicine and Science.
THE PERFORMANCE OF INDUSTRIAL SAFETY HELMETS UNDER TRANSVERSE LOADING.
Technology, Law and Insurance, 1997 2, 1-6
R D Thomson, S P Duckworth and A E Birkbeck. Ballistics and Impact Group.
M T Cassidy. Department of Forensic Medicine and Science.
COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF PENETRATION OF BIOMATERIALS BY A SHARP KNIFE.
presented at the 3rd International Conference On Modern Practice In Stress
and Vibration Analysis. page 347/353 Dublin September 1997.
J Ankerson, A E Birkbeck, R D Thomson. Ballistics and Impact Group.
P Vanezis. Department of Forensic Medicine and Science.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A COMPOSITE ONE WAY BULLET PROOF GLASS.
published in the Diagnostic Engineering Journal July/August 1997.
page 2482/2484. A E Birkbeck. Ballistics and Impact Group.
THE HUMAN FACTOR IN APPLIED WARFARE.
Presented at the Contemporary Ergonomics conference 1998
Published in the Ergonomics journal page 398/402
A E Birkbeck. Ballistics and Impact Group.
DISTINCT ELEMENT SIMULATION OF THE SPREAD OF SHOT FROM A SPORTING SHOTGUN.
A E Birkbeck, R D Thomson, Wong W Y. Ballistics and Impact Group.
published in The Engineering of Sport, Design and development 1998 page 303/311
THE EFFECT OF KNIFE BLADE PROFILE ON PENETRATION FORCE IN FLESH SIMULANTS.
J Ankerson, A Birkbeck, R Thomson. Ballistics and Impact Group.
P Vanezis Department of Forensic Medicine and Science.
published in journal of Technology, Law and Insurance, 1998 3, page 125/128.
COMMON MISUSES OF BALLISTIC TERMINOLOGY (part 1).
published in the Diagnostic Engineering Journal September/October 1999.
page 132/133. A E Birkbeck. Ballistics and Impact Group.
THE MODELLING AND PERFORMANCE OF TRAINING SHOE CUSHIONING SYSTEMS.
R D Thomson, A E Birkbeck, W L Tan, Ballistics Group.
L F McCafferty, S Grant, J Wilson, Institute of Biomedical Life Sciences.
Sports Engineering (1999) 2, 109-120.
COMMON MISUSES OF BALLISTIC TERMINOLOGY (part 2).
published in the Diagnostic Engineering Journal November/December 1999.
page 166/167. A E Birkbeck. Ballistics and Impact Group.
Invited Lectures
Lunch time lectures to the Department of Physics, University of Glasgow 1994.
Forensic Engineering presented to the Scottish Region of the IMechE 1997.
Design and effect of landmines for the United Nations Association Scotland, 1997.
The Human Factor In Applied Warfare at the Contemporary Ergonomics Conference 1998.
The Human Factor In Applied Warfare for the Development in Technology
for the University of Strathclyde as part of the B.Ed Design & Technology
programme February 1999.
Design and effect of landmines, a series of public lectures for the United Nations
Association Scotland, March and April 1999, in the Glasgow Transport Museum.
Design and evolution of fortifications and earthworks annual 2 hour lecture for the
Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, University of Glasgow, as part of MLitt.PgDip course
Started 2005/2006
Lecture on MIlitary Engineering presented to the Scottish Region of the IMeche 2008.
The Geneology of Cannons, public Lecture on the development of the cannon through history
presented in Callander House as part of a collective display about the Carron Iron Works.
If copies of any of the above papers are required please contact me
by any of the methods listed on my home page and they will be forwarded
to you.
Yours aye, Alan E Birkbeck.
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