MEMSDUKEPRATT School of engineering

Education

  • ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1965
  • MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1964
  • BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1963
F. Hadley Cocks

Professor Cocks' recent research has ranged over a wide variety of areas in materials science, including crystal growth, mechanical properties of kidney stones, lunar science, diffraction optics, materials for radiation detection, and radiation shielding. For many years he was a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratories. His current interests include magnesium alloy development and the crystal growth of alpha rhombohedral boron. His research has been supported by NSF, NIH, AFOSR, DOE, NREL (formerly the Solar Energy Research Institute), the American Cancer Society, and the North Carolina Space Grand Consortium.

Contact via or (919) 660-5310 (office phone)
Visit via or 031 Engineering Building (office location)

Specialties
Materials
Lithotripsy
Alternative Energy
Optical Imaging

TEACHING (Fall 2009)

ME 115L.01, FAILURE ANALY/PREVENTION, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
ME 121.01, ENERGY ENG AND ENVIRONMENT, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Recent Publications More Publications

  1. Curtarolo, S. and Kolmogorov, A.N. and Cocks, F.H., High-throughput ab initio analysis of the Bi-In, Bi-Mg, Bi-Sb, In-Mg, In-Sb, and Mg-Sb systems, CALPHAD, Comput. Coupling Phase Diagr. Thermochem. (UK), vol. 29 no. 2 (2005), ppt. 155 - 61 , [003] [abs]
  2. Songlin Zhu and Cocks, F.H. and Preminger, G.M. and Pei Zhong, The role of stress waves and cavitation in stone comminution in shock wave lithotripsy, Ultrasound Med. Biol. (USA), vol. 28 no. 5 (2002), ppt. 661 - 71 , [S0301-5629(02)00506-9] [abs]
  3. Cocks, F.H. and Watkins, S.A. and Walker, M.J. and Lutz, T.A. and Sussingham, J.C., A high-resolution solar telescope using dark-lens diffractive optics, Sol. Phys. (Netherlands), vol. 198 no. 2 (2001), ppt. 211 - 22 , [A:1005221126857] [abs]
  4. Sussingham, J. Christopher and Watkins, Seth A. and Cocks, F. Hadley, Forty years of development of active systems for radiation protection of spacecraft, Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, vol. 47 no. 3-4 (1999), ppt. 165 - 175 [abs]
  5. Watkins, S.A. and Cocks, F.H., X-ray and neutron diffraction of yttrium-barium-copper-oxide: modeling diffraction intensity variations produced by surface leaching, J. Mater. Res. (USA), vol. 14 no. 7 (1999), ppt. 2773 - 7 [abs]

Research Interests

    A wide variety of areas in materials science, including crystal growth, mechanical properties of kidney stones, lunar science, diffraction optics, materials for radiation detection, and radiation shielding.

The mission of Duke's Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science educational programs is to provide the knowledge, skills, and credentials needed to be successful in the practice of engineering; the preparation necessary to undertake professional registration; an educational preparation for graduate or professional study; and an education background that is the basis for professional growth and leadership throughout a career that may encompass a broad range of endeavors, both technical and non-technical.