Richard Cornish

Senior Lecturer

Email:: richard.cornish@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:: 0121 331 5416

Dr Richard Cornish is an Automotive Engineer with a wide experience of automotive research and development, especially developing test methods and models to capture new practical knowledge and theoretical insights.

His areas of expertise include modelling and simulation, test, measurement, and product perception. His consultancy work and student projects encompass cars, trains, buildings and factories in the UK and abroad.

Richard is originally from the North of England and came to Birmingham to study physics. He then joined the car industry, working at Lucas Group Research on mathematical models of fuel injection, headlamps and signal lamps, tyres and active suspension.

He then moved on to Leyland DAF and BCU to complete a PhD in vehicle noise, vibration and harshness (NVH).

Richard was also an external examiner at the University of Hertfordshire from 2016 to 2021.

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Publications

Siddharth Kulkarni, David John Edwards, Erika Anneli Parn, Craig Chapman, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa, Richard Cornish, (2018) "Evaluation of vehicle light-weighting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with focus on magnesium substitution", Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1108/JEDT-03-2018-0042

Cornish, Richard (2018) Evidence based lightweight car body responses. In: International Forum Automotive Acoustics and Vibration, 25 to 26 September 2018, National Conference Centre Birmingham.

Submission to Journal of Engineering Design and Technology (March 2018):
'An assessment of vehicle lightweighting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with a focus on Magnesium', Erika Parn, David Edwards, Richard Cornish.

‘Interior noise and electric vehicles - an experimental survey’,
Electric Vehicle NVH – not as quiet as you thought? - 21 June 2018, Coventry University UK.

Dennis Lausecker, T A Naveen Krishna, Prince Pathania, Anirudh Swaminathan and Richard Cornish, Target Setting for Interior Noise in Advanced Powertrain Vehicles, FPC 2017 Future Powertrain Conference, March 2017.

R. H. Cornish, Y. H. Siew, J. A Pears, ‘Comparison of Approximation Methods Applied to a Complex Non-Linear Analytical Transmission Model’, IPDS 2006 Integrated Powertrain & driveline systems 2006, 3rd October 2006, IMechE London.

Cornish R H, ‘Capture of parameters for control simulations from physical models’, Advanced Powertrain Control Symposium, 9th December 2004, Millennium Point, Birmingham.

Cornish R H, Srai M, Cowen P, Welch M, Daniels M ‘Mechanical Design Analysis and Test in Support of the Market Introduction of a New Vehicle’, BSSM Conference, ‘Advances in Experimental Mechanics’, September 2004, York.

Rashid R, Langley R S, Cornish R H, ‘Modelling and analysis of in-vehicle boom noise’, Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, Vol. 26. Pt.2 2004

Cornish R H, Qi N, ‘Experiences in using statistical energy analysis, with emphasis on experimentally verifying predictions’, EIS Symposium on NVH Refinement, Tools, Techniques and Results, 6th November 2003, Marriott Hotel, Coventry.

Shields P, Dulauroy E, Cornish R, ‘CAE and NVH Measurements in rail Vehicles’, EIS Symposium on Integration of CAE and Measurements for NVH Refinement, 1st November 2000, Marriott Hotel, Coventry.

Cornish R, Breheret C, ‘CAE and NVH Measurement for driver controls’, EIS Symposium on Integration of CAE and Measurements for NVH Refinement, 1st November 2000, Marriott Hotel, Coventry.

‘Simulation and testing of driveline actuation cables improves cable design’, R. H. Cornish, C. Breheret, C. Evans, 2nd Triennial International Symposium on Multi-body Dynamics: Monitoring and Simulation Techniques, 27-28 June 2000, University of Bradford.

‘Modelling Noise and Vibration Transmission of Automotive Manual Transmission Gearshift Cables’, R. H. Cornish, C. Breheret, C. Evans, European Conference on vehicle noise and vibration 2000, 10-12 May 2000, IMechE HQ London.

‘A novel approach to optimising and stabilising interior noise quality in vehicles’, R. H. Cornish, Proc Instn Mech Engrs, Vol 214, Part D, Issue 7, 2000.

‘Panel Noise Sensing’, R. H. Cornish, PAC.1.10(I), Physical Acoustics ’99, 28th October 1999, Institute of Physics, London. ‘Review of DIAGNOSIS’, Math&Stats, Volume 10, No. 3, August 1999.

'An investigation of machine excitation analysis as a possible tool in the control of interior noise quality in light commercial vehicles', R. H. Cornish, IMechE Conference C521: 'European Conference on Vehicle Noise and Vibration', 12-13 May 1998, IMechE HQ, London, UK.

PhD Thesis: ‘An Investigation of the Role of Vehicle Body Variability in Interior Noise Variability of Light Commercial Vehicles’, University of Central England 1998.

'The development and application of noise and vibration measurement and analysis systems to light commercial vehicles', R. H. Cornish, M. Daniels, G. A. Atkinson, Engineering Integrity Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 4-8, January 1997.

'Noise contribution analysis from vehicle panels subject to manufacturing variation', R. H. Cornish, G. A. Atkinson, Road Vehicle Automation (ROVA '97), Salamanca, Spain.

‘Vehicle Noise Path Modelling for Interior Noise Variability Reduction’, R. H. Cornish, M. Daniels, G. A. Atkinson, F. Syred, Autotech ‘97, NEC Birmingham, 4-6 November 1997.

‘Vehicle Noise Path Modelling in MATLAB using SIGLAB’, Matlab Seminar at UMIST 31st January 1997.

‘An investigation of Interior Noise Variability due to Production Variation Effects Using Signal Processing Techniques’, R. H. Cornish, M. Daniels, G. A. Atkinson, 19th Annual Energy Sources Technology Conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, January 1996. This paper has been issued as an ASME paper.

‘An Investigation of Production Variability of Light Commercial Vehicle Interior Noise’, R. H. Cornish, G. A. Atkinson, Road Vehicle Automation II, Towards System Integration, Proceedings of the 2nd Int. Conf. on Road Vehicle Automation, Vehicle Systems Research Centre, Faculty of Technology, Bolton Institute, Bolton, UK, 11th-13th September 1995, Edited by C. O. Nwagboso, Chapter 17, pp 191-197, John Wiley & Sons, 1997, ISBN 0 471 96726 2.

‘Reducing Interior Noise in Light Commercial Vehicles’, R. H. Cornish, M. Daniels, G. A. Atkinson, Autotech ‘95, NEC Birmingham, 7-9 November 1995.
‘Improving Interior Noise in Light Commercial Vehicles’, R. H. Cornish, M. Daniels, 5th International EAEC Congress, Conference II: "Chassis-Body Engineering", Strasbourg, June 22nd 1995.

‘Simulation Tools for Vehicle Handling Dynamics’, M. Holt, R. Cornish, Seminar of the IMechE Solid Mechanics and Machine Systems Group: 'Kinematics and Dynamics of Multi-Body Systems Seminar', IMechE HQ, London, 6th November 1992.