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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

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.

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

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: 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.

17 Dec 2022: Snow, Saurabh, Sophie, Daniel and Harry. Pictures courtesy of Saurabh Kundu and Daniel Gaude Fugarolis. For about a week, a large amount of snow was followed by really cold weather with temperatures dipping to -5C. This made it impossible to cycle

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 Oct 2022: Various encounters. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Happened to be walking on the Queen Mary University of London campus, saw this person in a knight's armour. I introduced myself as a Knight of the Realm, and we shared a picture together. His outfit was

14 Feb 2020: Joo Hyun Ryu reports on the GIGA steel. Dr Joo Hyun Ryu, who graduated from GIFT POSTECH, following his research on hydrogen embrittlement of TRIP and TWIP steels, reports here on he development of "GIGA" steel, a strong steel product for the

14 Feb 2020: Daniel, Bedouin, Titan, Kundu and South Africa. Daniel Guade Fugarolas, PT Group Member, visiting Cambridge from Spain. Here at Darwin College for lunch and a natter. Wen Di (Wendy) doing her personal protective equipment demonstration at the TWI in

25 May 2023: Steve Ooi, Adreil Wong, Namaste, Squash, Harry. Adreil Wong has successfully finished his Ph.D. at Cambridge and before he left for his new job in Redditch, we had a nice lunch at the Namaste Restaurant. A few days later, Adreil, for the first time,

14 Feb 2020: Bhadeshia123 YouTube Channel: age, gender, location, content, 20 Oct-17 Nov. The channel, during the period September to December has a huge viewer focus on crystallography, particularly amongst the young. This coincides with the first academic

14 Feb 2020: Dr Tanaka visits Cambridge from Daido Steel in Japan.

22 Jul 2022: John Wilcox, Thomas Sourmail, Chinnapat Panwisawas, Tomihoko Hojo. John Wilcox and Harry were Ph.D. students at the same time, in the Steel Group at Cambridge. John has for some time, been based in Glasgow, but was visiting Cambridge for a 50 year

14 Feb 2020: Peter Girling learns to forge iron. Peter attended a course on how to forge iron. The managed to create some quite intricate objects at his first go. The inevitable dirty hands. Anvil, with the objects that Peter made. The hearth.

14 Feb 2020: Steve Ooi, Hala Salman Hasan, Andy Howe, Greg Olson, Impact factor. Hala Salman Hasan visits Cambridge, here with Steve Ooi in the Coffee room. Andy Howe retires again, this time as Editor of Materials Science and Technology. Looks too young to me

23 Dec 2020: Kazutoshi Ichikawa wins major award. Professor Kazutoshi Ichikawa of Tohoku University and PT Group Member with the "Director General of Japanese Patent Office Award" for his work on the highly-ductile steel plates used in the manufacture of ship

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

7 Jan 2022: Variety of events, December 2021 and January 2022. New cycling jacket. New cycling jacket. Derek, at Darwin College, staff Christmas Dinner. Harry, at Stoyan Smoukov and Abiola's wedding. This image is generated by typing bainite into wombo. This

14 Feb 2020: Themecmastor flood, Pu Shengda, Girish Nivarti. Flood caused by detached water pipe on PT Group Thermecmastor. Nice biscuits brought by Pu Shengda following his visit to Japan. /Users/harshadbhadeshia/Pictures/iPhoto

14 Feb 2020: Steel at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Photographs courtesy of Wilberth Solano-Alvarez (PT Group Member).

8 Sep 2022: Rian and Antoinette Dippenaar visit Cambridge. Rian Dippenaar did his Ph.D. in the Department of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, in 1968, under the supervision of Professor Robert Honeycombe. They together solved the mechanism by which

27 Nov 2020: Harry's 67th birthday. #. Lovely cake delivered at 9 a.m. to Harry's house while he was still in his pyjamas. This is a vegan cake organised by the lovely people you see. Apparao Chintha, Steve Ooi, Shaumik Lenka, Mohammed Alshafrani (whose father

14 Feb 2020: Darwin College, Graduation lunch, 22nd July 2017. #Ph.D. and Masters graduates, their families and friends enjoy a splendid lunch at Darwin College.

18 Apr 2021: Professor Kaiming Wu and colleagues watch the "100 years of books" presentation. The Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy in Cambridge celebrated its 100 year anniversary. One of the events to mark this occasion dealt with the books

14 Feb 2020: 70th anniversary of freedom and fragmentation. # Selected images from an exhibition held at the Centre of South Asian Studies in Cambridge University. This year is the 70th year since the independence of India from British rule.

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

9 Oct 2022: Professor Wenwen Song (Aachen University) visits Harry. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Professor Wenwen Song, of Aachen University in Germany, visits Harry at Queen Mary University of London. She is renowned for her work on steels and recently was awarded

30 Aug 2022: Baking hot, bicycles, additive manufacturing, Russia, Malaysia, Queen Mary University of London. The pond in Comberton, completely barren with all water evaporated due to the heat wave and lack of rain. This is the Comberton pond in 2001 when we had

20 Jun 2020: Art by two artists, June 2020.

14 Feb 2020: Mohammed Alshahrani visits Zanzibar to help construct a school. #Click a picture to see a larger view.

14 Feb 2020: Double rainbow in Cambridge. Some pictures courtesy of Apparao Chintha.

14 Feb 2020: Snow, mountains, Switzerland, Snowflake, EBSD cake. Apart from the first one, the photographs were all taken in Switzerland, about 3 hours drive from Zurich, during December 2017. The cake pictures are from South Africa. A flake of snow,

14 Feb 2020: November 2017 - bike ride to St Ives. #Photographs and videos courtesy of Richard Gymer and Gebril El-Fallah.

24 May 2021: 60 mile bike ride, 23rd of May 2021. The cycling season is off to a gentle start, with pandemic precautions in place. Along the later sections of the route, we (Dominik Dziedzic, Steve Ooi, Harry Bhadeshia) battled wind and rain and felt quite

9 Feb 2021: More events during lockdown. Flooded river in Toft, Cambridge, UK. New, twisted building in Taipei, Taiwan. Photograph courtesy of Professor Jer-Ren Yang. The Tata Steel team on a hike near Jamshedpur. Ice dendrites photographed by Andy Howe near

14 Feb 2020: Symposium on ferrous metallurgy. The 2nd Postgraduate Research Symposium on Ferrous Metallurgy was held at the Armourers and Brasiers Hall in London during February 2019. It was attended by Apparao Chintha and Steve Ook.

14 Feb 2020: Cycle race to St Ives, 20th May 2017. This was a timed race from the beginning of the guided busway in Cambridge to the bus stop in St Ives. Harry won this against Apparao Chinta, Gebril El-Fallah and Dominik Dziedzic with a time of just under 43

14 Feb 2020: Bartek Glowacki, Steve Ooi, Hung-Wei Yen. Professor Bartek Glowacki on a sunny day in Cambridge. Darwin College. Chen, Hung-Wei Yen, visiting from the Taiwan National University. Steve Ooi on the right. Chen and Hung-Wei in the Darwin College parlour

14 Feb 2020: Kouichi Murakami visits after 30 years. Kouichi Murakami completed his Ph.D. research at Cambridge during 1993. He is now Chief Executive for Technology at IHI in Japan. IHI is a major engineering industry, formerly known as Ishikawajima Harima

14 Feb 2020: Bicycle race from Cambridge to St Ives, 6th January 2018. This is the first bicycle race held by the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. On the 6th of January, the participants raced from Cambridge to St Ives. The first five to complete

8 Oct 2022: Rail moving points. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. The French high-speed rail authorities have mandated that moving points must be made from the carbide-free bainitic steel. Here I took some pictures at the Cambridge rail station to use in a book that I am

8 Oct 2022: X-ray diffraction equipment. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Desktop X-ray diffraction machines for teaching undergraduates the way diffraction data are collected. Everything is manual, for example, the manipulation of the Geiger counter as a function of

7 Jan 2021: Comberton to Toft walk during lockdown. Lots of mud. Stream. This might be field of kale. Beacon in case the Vikings attack. Bridge - with helpful arrow to show direction. Sounds good - already had two cups. Not sure whether this refers to the

14 Feb 2020: Crystallography, Horses, Amir, Aviation. Shaumik Lenka doing high-resolution two-surface analysis on. bainite sub-units. Shaumik Lenka doing high-resolution two-surface analysis on. bainite sub-units. Habit plane, true shear, orientation. on single

14 Feb 2020: Membre d'Honneur. Harry was elected to an Honorary Membership of the Société Française de Métallurgie et de Matériaux, SF2M. Journey begins with coffee at Cambridge Railway Station. Arrival at King’s Cross Station in London. Tube journey to

14 Feb 2020: Professor Nirupam Chakraborti honoured in Sweden. #Professor Nirupam Chakraborti of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, has been awarded by International Association of Advanced Materials, the Scientist Medal. The award ceremony was

8 Oct 2022: An illustration of mixing. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Some ink dropped into a jar of ware to show mixing, both by diffusion and a very small amount of flow.

21 Dec 2020: December 2020. Equations generated during a conversation with Hamilton Abreau. Socially distanced walk in the forest. Harry, facing Queen's Common before entering Darwin College. Futile attempt at repairing a coffee machine. Even after buying a

5 Dec 2022: Bearing failure mechanism. Information courtesy of Parvez Mannan. Parvez Mannan of the Noble Engineering Services, New South Wales in Australia, kindly agreed to make these images and associated information available. The bearing inner race has the