Franklin H. Cocks, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and MEMP

Please note: Franklin has left the "MEMP" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

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. Cock's recent book, Energy Demand and Climate Change: Issues and Resolutions, is a popular, scientifically sound yet easily read book providing the science and background necessary to understand today's energy and climate problems, and offers possible answers using both current and future technology.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	307 Hudson Hall
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.mems.duke.edu/energy-demand-climate-change

Education:

ScD	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	1965
MS	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	1964
BS	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	1963

Specialties:

Materials
Lithotripsy
Alternative Energy
Optical Imaging

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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 2773 - 7  [abs]