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16 Jun 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

24 Jun 2024: Continuously cooled hypoeutectoid steel. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. The vast majority of the 1.3 billion tonnes of steel proudced annually have a microstructure which is a mixture of allotriomorphic ferrite and pearlite. The pearlite is the last phase

24 Jun 2024: "Rail Live" 2024. Pictures courtesy of Wilberth Solano who took them while at the Rail Live exhibition. Setting up for the demonstration of aluminothermit welding of rails. The yellow "Pandrol" is a preheater powered by propane. This avoids the need

16 Jun 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

16 Jun 2024: CML Reunion, South Korea. Many long-standing and recent members of the Computational Metallurgy Laboratory at GIFT, POSTECH in South Korea got together for a reunion in Pohang. The event also marked the celebration of Professor Dong Woo Suh's

16 Jun 2024: Harry at the BBC. Harry was at the BBC to record the Life Scientific podcast. Heading towards the famous studios in London's Broadcasting House. The newsroom from the top. The Tardis. Published, 2023. October 8th, 2024.

20 Jun 2024: Dr Sangeeta Khare visits Cambridge. Dr Sangeeta Khare is an academic at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She is also a PT Group member, having worked with Harry for many years, both at POSTECH in South Korea and in Cambridge. Here, we are

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

27 Jun 2024: Tiling and crystallography. The image below is of tiling done by Stoyan Smoukov (who kindly provided the image) at a sink in his house. The tiles have a clever shape so that they can tesselate to fill completely, a two-dimensional surface. Each tile

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

8 Jun 2024: One. Two. Published, 2023.

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

26 Apr 2024: Wilberth Solano in Cambridge, April 2024. Wilberth Solano (PT Group member) visited Cambridge for discussions about a review paper that they have been writing for almost seven years. Here we are having lunch at Darwin College before doing any actual

8 Jun 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

28 Jun 2024: Steels for rails. W. Solano-Alvarez and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Abstract. Transport by rail is an efficient way of moving goods and people while managing problems such as congestion and the consequences on the environment. The relatively low energy

3 Jun 2024: The Norwich 60 bicycle ride, 2nd June 2024. Training before the Norwich ride. Training consisted of two separate 40 mile sessions. In the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside. Each 40.57 mile trip began in Comberton, to St Ives, and back. In St Ives,

3 Jun 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

3 Jun 2024: Saurabh Kundu from Tata Steel, visits Japan, May 2024. Saurabh Kundu attended the 56th TECO meeting of the World Steel Association, at Tokyo, Japan. There he had the opportunity to connect once again with colleagues who were all in the Phase

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: 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

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.

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.

14 Jun 2024: Books. Available for Free Download. The following reproduced with the permission of Dr Alan Armour, Climax Molybdenum. ... Restricted Download. Published, 2023. October 8th, 2024.

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

17 Jun 2024: Pictures of steel. These photographs courtesy of Jasmine Tong of the Hunan Great Steel Pipe Company Limited, who sent them in an unsolicited email. Steel. More steel. Even more steel. Published, 2023. October 8th, 2024.

16 Jun 2024: Pure, amorphous iron. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Abstract. The review covers the difficulty in obtaining amorphous iron, the clever experiments that have produced small particles or thin films of glassy iron, together with models that estimate the

11 Mar 2024: Dongwoo Suh becomes Dean of GIFT, POSTECH, March 2024. Many, many congratulations to Professor Dongwoo Suh who is now the Dean of the Graduate Institute of Ferrous and Energy Materials Technology (GIFT) at POSTECH in South Korea. He continues to

26 Apr 2024: Kazutoshi Ichikawa and colleagues honoured, April 2024. Ichikawa is on the left. The award (2024) is in recognition of outstanding Science and Technology, by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The award citation is

24 Jun 2024: You can freely download the complete book Theory of Transformations in Steels. ... Grooves develop at the prior austenite grain boundaries due to the balancing of surface tensions at grain junctions with the free surface.