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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

4 Jul 2024: Martensite and Martensitic Phase Transformations. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Evolution of martensite. A movie of martensitic transformation in Fe-0.18C-0.2Si-0.9Mn-2.9Ni-1.5Cr-0.4Mo wt% steel, using confocal laser microscopy. The time and temperature

7 Jul 2024: Deltoidal icositetrahedron faceting on α-Fe crystals found on the surface of the Moon. K. M. Knowles and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Abstract. Crystallographic analysis of scanning electron microscopy images of small μm-sized single crystals of b.c.c.

4 Jul 2024: Review Articles. General Articles. Science for 5 year olds. Books. Free.

4 Jul 2024: Book on bainite (electronic version available for free download). Movies about Martensite and Bainite.

4 Jul 2024: Retained Austenite. Crystallography of Austenite. Theory and Significance of Retained Austenite in Steels. Ph.D. thesis, by Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge, 1979. Reaustenitisation of some Alloy Steels. Ph.D. thesis, by Ursula Ruth Lenel,

7 Jul 2024: Structure-properties relationship in TRIP steels containing carbide-free bainite. Pages 285 to 303.

7 Jul 2024: Tempered martensite embrittlement: Role of retained austenite and cementite. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia and D. V. Edmonds. Abstract. The microstructural and property changes accompanying the tempering of quenched low-alloy steels have been examined and

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

4 Jul 2024: Computer simulated image of the dendritic solidification of pure nickel. The simulation is of "free growth", i.e., the solid is growing without contact with anything but the liquid.

7 Jul 2024: Book on bainite (electronic version available for free download). Movies about Martensite and Bainite.

6 Jul 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

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 Jul 2024: Computer Modelling of the Yield Strength of Mixed Microstructures of Bainite and Martensite. C. H. Young and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Abstract. The strength of mixed microstructures of bainite and martensite can peak at an intermediate volume fraction

4 Jul 2024: Download PDF file of paper from HAL open access.

4 Jul 2024: Aluminium-Silicon Casting Alloys. R. Cornell and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. A discussion of solidification and its effects can be found in a set of lectures available online. Information on the friction stir welding of these alloys is also available.

4 Jul 2024: The Incomplete Bainite Reaction: Possible Reasons for Apparent Differences in TEM and Atom-Probe Determination of Austenite Carbon Content. D. Hall, H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia and W. Stobbs. Abstract. Carbon segregation following the transformation of

4 Jul 2024: Editing your. bashrc file. Go to your home space 'root directory' (type cd). Use your favorite text editor (e.g. type xemacs. bashrc). There should be a line looking like: PATH=$PATH:blabla:. If there is not, just add one. In the case of staroffice,

4 Jul 2024: The analysis is shown to be consistent with (a) a linear dependence of the activation energy for isothermal nucleation, on the transformation free energy change, (b) the sub-unit mechanism of