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Professor David Cebon
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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Trumpington St
Cambridge CB2 1PZ
Biography:
David Cebon BE, PhD, FREng, FIMechE, is Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Research Director of the Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium and the Managing Director of Granta Design Limited. He is also a Fellow of Queens' College Cambridge
Professor Cebon leads an active research group concerned with the design and dynamics of heavy vehicle suspensions, road damage and the micromechanics of asphalt failure. He also has interests in the use of computers in engineering design and education. He has written numerous papers on the dynamics of heavy vehicles, traffic instrumentation, road damage and materials information management software.
Subject groups/Research projects
Research Interests
- Vehicle dynamics, design of vehicle suspensions using passive and active components.
- Heavy vehicle safety, productivity and fuel consumption
- Damage mechanisms of bitumens and asphalts.
- Damage to road surfaces and bridges caused by dynamic wheel forces of heavy goods vehicles.
- Heavy vehicle 'weigh-in-motion' technology.
- Selection of materials and standard components in design.
- Use of computers in engineering education.
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Key Publications
Cebon, D. Handbook of Vehicle-Road Interaction, Swets and Zeitlinger B.V., Lisse, the Netherlands, ISBN 9026515545, 600pp, 1999.
Some Recent publications
- Cebon, D. and Ashby, MF. ‘Engineering materials informatics’. MRS Bulletin, Special Issue on Materials Informatics, Vol 31, pp 1004-1012, Dec. 2006.
- Costanzi, M, and Cebon, D. ‘An Investigation of the Effects Of Lorry Suspension Performance on Road Maintenance Costs’ Proc
- J. Mech. Eng. Sci, IMechE , Vol 221, No C11, pp 1265-1277, 2007.
- Helmus, MN, Gibbons, DF and Cebon, D. ‘Biocompatibility, meeting a key functional requirement of next generation medical devices’ Toxicologic Pathology, Jan 2008; vol. 36: pp. 70 - 80.
- Odhams, AMC; Roebuck, RL; Cebon, D and Winkler, CB ‘Dynamic safety of active trailer steering systems’. Proc. IMechE, Part K: J. Multi-body Dynamics, 2008, 222(K4), pp367-380.
- Stone, EJ and Cebon, D. ‘An experimental semi-active anti-roll system’ IMechE J Auto Eng, Vol 222, No D12, pp2415-2433, 2008.
- Roebuck RL and Cebon, D. ‘Implementation of Semi-Active Damping on a Tri-Axle Heavy Vehicle Suspension’ IMechE J Auto Eng, Vol 222, No D12, pp2353-2372, 2008.
- Jeppesen, BP and Cebon, D. ‘Application of observer-based fault detection in vehicle roll control’ VSD, Vol. 47, No. 4, April 2009, 465–495.
- Ossa, EA, Deshpande, VS and Cebon, D. ‘Triaxial deformation behaviour of bituminous mixes’ ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Vol 22, No 2, pp124-135, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0899-1561(2010)22:2(124)
- Stone, EJ and Cebon, D. ‘Control of semi-active anti-roll systems on heavy vehicles’ VSD, Vol 48 No 10, pp1215-1243, 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00423110903427439
- Odhams, AMC, Roebuck, RL, Lee, YJ, Hunt, SW, and Cebon, D. ‘Factors influencing the energy consumption of road freight transport’. Proc IMechE Part C, J Mech Eng Sci,Vol 24, No 9, 2010, pp 1995-2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1243/09544062JMES2004
Other Publications
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News
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May 14, 2012
CVDC is pleased to announce SDC as the newest member of the consortium.
Apr 24, 2012
CVDC Represented at EuroBrake 2012
Leon Henderson presented his latest work on HGV slip control at EuroBrake 2012 in Dresden.
Sep 15, 2011
The CVDC had its bi-annual meeting at the headquarters of Poclain Hydraulics in Verberie, France. The consortium discussed research performed over the last 6 months, and future directions.
Sep 10, 2011
Will Midgley presented recent results of his research into regenerative braking for articulated heavy vehicles at the Vehicle Propulsion and Power Conference 2011 in Chicago, USA.
Aug 20, 2011
CVDC Represented at IAVSD 2011
Leon Henderson presented some of his recent work on Tyre Dynamics and Slip-Control Braking at the 22nd International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks, held in Manchester, UK.