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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: 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

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

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 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 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.

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

26 Oct 2023: α-alumina (Sapphire). D. K. Dinkar and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Crystallography of α-alumina, which in its pure and perfect form is known as sapphire. Space group, lattice parameters. Unit cell in perspective view. The cell has the trigonal space

20 Sep 2023: Sites in Taipei, Taiwan, double-helix building, September 2023. These pictures are from Harry's visit to Taiwan, generously organised by Professor Jer Ren Yang of the National Taiwan University. Harry's flight from Heathrow. Completely random pattern

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: 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.

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: 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

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,

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

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

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),

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,

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

19 Aug 2023: Broken tensile-test samples. Flat tensile test samples from a steel for composition Fe-0.07C-0.025Nb-0.025Ti wt%, rolled and coiled at 629. o. C. Images courtesy of Apparao Chinta. Geometry before deformation. The samples are 7 mm thick.

28 Jul 2023: Royal Society and Indian National Science Academy, Yusuf Hamied Workshop. This workshop had the intention of inspiring greater collaboration between scientists based in the U.K. and in India. The subject covered machine learning, colloquially known

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

21 Apr 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

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

27 Sep 2023: Deltoidal icositrahedron 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.

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

15 Apr 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

1 Feb 2024: steel, bainite, kinetics. Download.

14 Jun 2023: Wolframite. Tungsten Filaments. Mathew Peet. These micrographs were given to me as part of my undergraduate project at The University of Sheffield: Case Study on Tungsten Filament Lamps. The report includes a discussion of the manufacture of

13 Jun 2023: Tungsten mine in Cornwall. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Images courtesy of P. D. Bhadeshia. Wolframite, (Fe,Mn)WO. 4. , has a monoclinic lattice in which a=0.477 nm, b=0.573 nm, c=0.498 nm, β=90.2. o. , space group P2/c. It is a valuable source of

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

31 Jan 2024: H. Bhadeshia, 2024, the relevant page of which is included in the download files. ... steel, pearlite, austenite, austenite growth, kinetics. Download.

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

28 May 2023: Mistakes in conversational "artificial intelligence". H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. There follows experiments in which I used sentences from the introductory chapter of Steels: Bhadeshia and Honeycombe to check what the conversational "artificial

11 Oct 2023: widmanstatten, bainite, martensite, start temperature. Download.