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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

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

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

11 Sep 2023: Pearlite. Articles. Strength of undeformed pearlite, orPearlitic wire. Phases. Computer Programs. Bridges using Pearlitic Ropes. Sculptre made of endless pearlitic steel rope. Sculptre made of pearlitic steel rope, University of Manchester. Bridge

11 Sep 2023: Pearlite in art, The Chrysalis. The term "chrysalis" describes a hard case that protects a stage of growth in which a butterfly turns into an adult. It eventually breaks to allow the butterfly to emerge. Here, Kang Muxiang has used discarded

11 Sep 2023: Steel Bridges in Japan. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. The Akashi Kaikyo bridge, a 3-span 2-hinged truss-stiffened suspension bridge. completed in 1998. It connects Kobe with Awaji Island. It is the world's longest suspension bridge, with a span between the

10 Sep 2023: The Taipei 101 Tower, Taiwan: The Tallest Building on Earth, made using Steel. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Until 2010, the Taipei 101 Tower of Taiwan was the tallest building on Earth. Its height above ground is 509.2 m. This includes the 60 m spire; the