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25 May 2024: Phase Transformations & Complex. Properties Research Group. Queen Mary University of London. Emeritus Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy. University of Cambridge. Ph.D. student. Rajdeep Mondal. rajdeep.mondal@qmul.ac.uk. Honorary Associates. The

25 May 2024: Phase Transformations & Complex. Properties Research Group. Queen Mary University of London. Emeritus Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy. University of Cambridge. Ph.D. student. Rajdeep Mondal. rajdeep.mondal@qmul.ac.uk. Honorary Associates. The

18 May 2024: Rajdeep Mondal does experiments, May 2024. Rajdeep Mondal is conducting research leading to a Ph.D. qualification from Queen Mary University of London. Here, Dr Steve Ooi is helping to use the machine, very generously, over two whole days. The

4 May 2024: Paul Shelley visits from Molycop, May 2024 2024. Molycop is an international industry supplying mining consumables. It has laboratories in Australia, Chile and Peru. Dr Paul Shelley sponsors research on steel at Queen Mary University of London, and

14 Apr 2024: Professor Haibin Zuo visits from USTB. Professor ZUO Haibin, Associate Director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, visited us (Haixue Yan and Harry) at Queen Mary University of

14 Apr 2024: A collection of 280 years. Ravindra, Mukesh, Batuk and Harry (Harshad) were all at the Highway Secondary School in Nairobi, back in 1968. We all now live in the U.K. and had our first ever reunion, after some 45 years, in London. Ravindra organised

14 Apr 2024: Adventures of PT Group Members (and others). An elephant made from graphite. An asymmetrical "I-beam". Trading post in New Mexico (not the Dominican Republic), picture courtesy of Noelle Hommedieu. Pieces of steel that Faraday himself conducted

25 Oct 2020: Apparao Chintha, Prasad Kopparthi and Gopi Krishna Chejarla on cycling adventures again. Pre-order for March 2021.

14 Feb 2020: CBMM meeting in Cambridge. CBMM stands for Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineracao, the largest supplier of niobium in the world. The meeting hosted in Cambridge on the 24th of May was to discuss the metallurgy of particular steels. It was

14 Feb 2020: Harry at Oslo, Norway. During September 2018, Harry did some work at the Norwegian Research Council in Oslo. The Central Station in Oslo. The Norwegian parliament building. These substantial metallic flower pots are security barriers which at the

4 Jan 2021: Jean assembles hydraulic claw. #Click a picture to see a larger view. Pre-order for March 2021.

14 Feb 2020: Munish Sudan visits from Tata Steel (India), March 2019. Following a meeting held at the Moeller Centre in Churchill College, Munish visited the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. And the Cafe West. It is now Spring in Cambridge. Some

14 Feb 2020: Riverside Museum, Glasgow. Photographs courtesy of Apparao Chintha.

14 Feb 2020: Sourabh Chatterjee, Spring, Iraq, Birmingham University. Saurabh Chatterjee and team win a major award for a reduction in the silicon content of a class of steels without compromising properties, at Tata Steel. Spring in Pohang, South Korea.

14 Feb 2020: Hector Pous Romero: 35 years. Dear Hector,. When you joined us for research, you captured the essence of Cambridge as a place of scholarship and friendship. Through your work, you demonstrated that it is possible to be misled by data that are overly

15 Apr 2024: Mitigating high-temperature, high-pressure hydrogen attack. Ph.D. thesis, by Mohammed Abdulrahman Alshahrani, University of Cambridge, 2021. Role of toughness in abrasion and impact-abrasion wear. Ph.D. thesis, by Appa Rao Chintha, University of

14 Feb 2020: Data-centric engineering and Greg Olson. A Data-centric engineering workshop held at the Samberg Conference Centre, MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts, followed by a visit to Northwestern University to celebrate Greg Olson's change of purpose. The hotel

14 Feb 2020: Advanced Steels (ICAS2018), Jeju, South Korea. #An international conference on advanced steels held on the volcanic island of Jeju (Cheju) in South Korea. Harry at Heathrow Airport about to leave for Seoul. People call this a "selfie". Ticket to

14 Feb 2020: Howe Memorial Lecture, AIST 2017. The Association of Iron and Steel Technologies held its annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Omni Hotel, Nashville. Partly complete skyscraper. Partly complete skyscraper. Partly complete skyscraper. Another

14 Feb 2020: Geometry of Crystals, Polycrystals, and Phase Transformations. #This book, published on the 25th of August 2017, is organized into a two-part structure aimed at readers of differing experience levels, Geometry of Crystals, Polycrystals, and Phase

14 Feb 2020: Zixin Huang after her Ph.D. examination. Zixin Huang had her Ph.D. viva, with Andy Howe as the External Examiner, and Cathie Rae from the University of Cambridge.

14 Feb 2020: Some birthday celebrations during November. Photographs courtesy of many people. At Pizza Express, King street, Cambridge. We first tried Rainbows (now closed), then Stem and Glory (full) and finally an old favourite. Partial crystallinity of

14 Feb 2020: Harry in Moscow, Russian Federation. Harry was at the National University of Science and Technology, NUST MISIS, in early October 2018, for the tenth meeting of the International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC). The University is located at

14 Feb 2020: Machine learning in materials science. #Harry gave a lecture at the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, The University of Birmingham. A model of a dredger at the entrance of the Department - not a very good picture because it was

14 Apr 2024: Trinity College, Cambridge, Science Society 2024. The Trinity College Science Society is run by undergraduate students, who invited Harry to give an evening lecture before dinner. The lectures are open to the public. Pictures courtesy of Deepak

23 Jan 2024: Steels, the 5th edition, published 2024. Alloys of iron. Alloys of iron. Alloys of iron. Alloys of iron. Alloys of iron. Corten steel used by Anthony Gormley, an artist, to create a monument honouring Alan Turing, at King's College Cambridge.

11 Feb 2024: Harry at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, February 2024. Harry was at KTH Royal Institute of Technology as the "opponent" to Tania Loiza Uribe's well-defended Ph.D. thesis. Pictures courtesy of Steve Ooi. It snowed with temperatures close to -5 centigrade.

14 Feb 2020: Very Strong Low Temperature Bainite. F. G. Caballero, H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia, K. J. A. Mawella, D. G. Jones and P. Brown. Abstract. Bainite has been obtained by heat treatment at temperatures as low as 125. o. C in a high carbon, high silicon steel.

23 Feb 2024: Harry, Steve and Bill at Udine University, Italy, February 2024. Harry Bhadeshia, Steve Ooi and Bill Clyne were at the Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy, at the kind invitation of Professor Fabio Miani. We arrived late, about 2200 h. Heading

20 Sep 2023: Sites in Taipei, Taiwan, double-helix building, September 2023. These pictures are from Harry's visit to Taiwan, generously organised by Professor Jer Ren Yang of the National Taiwan University. Harry's flight from Heathrow. Completely random pattern

14 Feb 2020: British, supersonic, stainless steel aircraft. The BAC-188 was an experimental aircraft made by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. The aeroplane was made from titanium-stabillised stainless steel so that it could withstand skin temperatures of 300

18 Aug 2023: Visitors from Sichuan University. Professor Jiangang Wu and Dr Ting Zheng from Sichuan University visited Harry at Queen Mary University of London. They work on ferroelectrics and phase transformations. During the visit, they had the opportunity to

18 May 2024: Dr Apparao Chintha promoted to Principal Scientist, May 2024. Apparao Chintha (PT Group Member) has been promoted at Tata Steel, Jamshedpur. He will now report to the Chief of Product Development Research. Appa qualified as a Bachelor in Metallurgy

14 Jul 2023: Visitors from Nippon Steel and Daido Steel, Japan. On Monday morning (10th Jul), Kevin Knowles and Harry recorded a video about iron crystals from the Moon. This was followed by the arrival of Chihiro Furusho from Daido Steel in Japan. Chihiro had

25 May 2023: Interesting pictures. Steel tins of tomatoes. Work of art at Cambridge railway station. Suspended in the stairwell from cycle park to station entrance. Notice the breaking system. Elevated computer to work while standing. Azaleas in bloom.

13 Sep 2023: Harry at the National Taiwan University (September 2023). Commercially viable strong steel with austenite grain size less than 0.4 μm. It is assumed that high-carbon martensite is strong but brittle. We teach therefore, that it must be somewhat

25 May 2023: Future Metallurgy Conference. The conference was organised by Professor Zhongyun Fan to celebrate and important anniversary of his Liquid Metal Engineering Centre, at Brunel University. The conference dinner. Speeches emphasising the impressive

25 May 2023: Dr Haixue Yan and Professor Elizabeth Tanner of QMUL attend a Darwin Lecture. The lecture they attended was by Arik Kershenbaum on "Are we alone in the Universe". The full set of lectures is available onLiz Tanner with the Master of Ceremonies, Tim

14 Feb 2020: Wear. Role of fracture toughness in impact-abrasion wear. A. R. Chintha, K. Valtonen, V.-T. Kuokkala, S. Kundu, M.J. Peet, H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia. Abstract. Two new low alloyed steels have been developed with different fracture toughness values but at

10 Sep 2023: Atomium. Atomium is designed by AndrX Waterkeyn - each ball in the body-centred cubic arrangement is about 18 m in size. The "bonds" are made of steel. The whole structure is more than 100 m tall. The crystal structure is supposed to represent iron

14 Feb 2020: Cambridge 100 mile bike ride, 12th of May 2019. Starting and finishing on the outskirts of Cambridge, the 100 mile route took us through some really nice countryside including Thetford Forest and Ely. Refreshments following a training session prior

25 May 2023: Visit to Imperial College, London. Professor Jianguo Lin invited Harry to visit his laboratories at Imperial College. Situated in a lovely part of London. Shows the huge scale of the fan blades on a civil aircraft engine. Lunch at the Polish club,

7 Oct 2020: Fatigue cracked fuselage of Comet 2 jet aircraft. These images represent tests done on the fuselage of the Comet 2 jet aircraft subjected to fatigue loading via repeated cabin pressurisation. The Comet 2 had rounded windows. The fatigue cracks then

18 Aug 2023: Harry's induction at Indian National Science Academy. Harry was elected a Fellow in 2018 but the opportunity for a formal induction into INSA arose during a visit to New Dehli. From left to right, Professor Ashutosh Sharma (President of INSA),

8 Sep 2022: Cambridge Mosque and Airfield in Toft. The Mosque in Cambridge has some unique architecture. In Toft, which is near Comberton, we discovered a private airfield. Cambridge Mosque. Has a campaign for planting trees. Just outside the Mosque. III. This

14 Apr 2022: Events and encounters. Noelle Homedieu at Darwin College. Shubeur Rahman, Darwin College. Harry, on his way to Queen Mary University of London. Darwin College. The College again. Pineapple plant. Shows the scale of a titanium fan blade. Visiting

14 Apr 2022: Minerals in Zurich, Switzerland, April 2022. Pyrite crystals. Pyrite is an iron sulphide FeS. 2. , belonging to the cubic crystal class,. point group symmetry m3. Kupfer is the German name for copper. Cobalt dolomite, from Congo in Africa. Quartz

14 Feb 2020: Designing low carbon, low temperature bainite. Hong-Seok Yang and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Abstract. The possibility of producing bainite at low temperatures by suppressing transformation using substitutional solutes has been investigated, as an

14 Feb 2020: Danyi Luo reports from China, getting married. Danyi Luo, a PT Group Member, is going to get married. Here is a picture of her with her fiancee, together with a couple of the Christmas dinner they had together. More pictures.

21 Sep 2023: Visit to China Steel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Harry visited China Steel (September, 2023) to deliver a talk on entitled machine learning - steels - artificial intelligence?, and then have a holiday at the southernmost tip of Taiwan. Professor Jer Ren