After completing his B.Eng in the Materials Department at the University of Surrey, Tony Fry joined NPL working on the measurement and control of bending strain in fatigue testing. He spent his early years at NPL working on a range of materials projects including modelling of thermoset polymers, characterising the thermal conductivity of casting waxes and conducting a range of ambient and high temperature mechanical tests.
Tony is the convenor of ISO TC156 WG13 and committee member of ISO TC156 WG13, ASTM F42 and CEN TC138 WG10 standards committee which are responsible for high temperature corrosion testing, tribo-corrosion, Standardisation for Additive Manufacturing and residual stress measurement by XRD respectively. He is a Fellow of IOM3 and is a committee member of the Energy Materials Group and High Temperature Mechanical Testing Committee (HTMTC). He has (co)authored over 120 publications and reports from his research work and contract problem solving projects.
Areas of interest
Having worked at NPL for over 27 years Tony has led a wide range of Government and grant funded projects working on areas such as the development of high temperature test procedures for steam oxidation and the mechanisms of exfoliation, developing best practice for the measurement of residual stresses. More recently Tony has been developing measurement approaches to increase confidence in additively manufactured (AM) materials to assist in the development and validation of new and existing standards for application to AM materials.
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