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25 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 2024: 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

20 Jul 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

12 Jul 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

14 Jul 2024: Sheffield Metallurgical and Engineering Association. The Sheffield Society of Engineers and Metallurgists was founded in 1894, later named the "Sheffield Metallurgical and Engineering Association (SMEA)", a lively community of those involved with

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

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.

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

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

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: 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

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

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

16 Jul 2024: One. Two. Published, 2023. October 8th, 2024.

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.

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

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 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: 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,

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 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

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

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

10 Jul 2024: Slide presentations. Automotive Steels. Bainite. POSCO Lectures on Bainite. Bainitic pipe. Cologne 2014. Percolation of phases, MST 2015. Buildings. Cast Iron. Austempered ductile cast iron. Carbides. Creep. Crystallography. Diffusion. Dispersion

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.

16 Jul 2024: Selected topics on non-ferrous materials. Graphene. Published, 2023. October 8th, 2024.

27 Nov 2022: Henrique Boschetti Preiria (University of Sao Paulo) visits Harry. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Henrique Boschetti Preiria from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, visits Harry. He is at the final stages of his Ph.D., working on the flash butt welding of

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

14 Feb 2020: Jae Hoon Jang and Hee Young Kim celebrating Steels. #The book of steel, received by Jae Hoon Jang (Korea Institute for Materials Science) and Hee Young Kim. Both used to be at GIFT, POSTECH in South Korea.

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

14 Feb 2020: International Conference on Joining and Welding, Peru. The fourth ICONWELD 2018 conference was held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), which was founded in 1917. The conference was associated with a display of industrial equipment

14 Feb 2020: Visitors from Nippon Steel Corporation and Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology. Yasuhira Yamada of the Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, and Teppei Ohkawa of the Nippon Steel Corporation visited Cambridge during

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

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

14 Feb 2020: Darwin College, Girish Nivarti, Bainite in Steels, Twinned Rainbow. In Darwin College. Chris Hulme-Smith and Dominik. Nirupam Chakraborti sent this from a library in the USA. Girish Nivarti submitting his thesis on flame dynamics. An excerpt from

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

21 Mar 2020: Johan Westraadt, Andy Howe, Christian, March 2020. Professor Johan Westraadt from the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa visited Cambridge. Andy Howe send a picture of dendrites in ice near Sheffield's Peak District. An Apeirogon (cf. octagon,

22 Dec 2022: Bainite in Steels. Free books available for download. Zhinan Yang, Fucheng Zhang.

14 Feb 2020: Three-body abrasive wear of fine pearlite, nanostructured bainite and martensite. Subhankar Das Bakshi, P. H. Shipway, H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia. Abstract. The abrasive wear of three metallurgical structures with radically different hardnesses have been

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: 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

21 Aug 2022: Dreamachine and the Elisabeth Line. Professor Anil Seth of Sussex University, who has written the book "Being you" which was on the Times Best Selling list for weeks, gave Harry a ticket to visit the Dreamachine. Anil is an expert on consciousness

4 Aug 2020: Events during early August, 2020. Hard copy of Harry's book for checking before sending to publisher. A gift from DebRoy on completion of another book which we co-authored, currently being typeset. Courtesy DebRoy. The wonderful, early-morning