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16 Jun 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

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

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

16 Jun 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

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.

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

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

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: 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

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 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

8 Jun 2024: One. Two. Published, 2023.

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.

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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: 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: 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

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

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

14 Feb 2020: Steel tower. #Photographs courtesy of Dominik Dziedzic and Apparao Chintha.

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

11 Jul 2020: Mostly cycling, but not entirely, July 2020. Antarctica, picture courtesy of Sunita Hansraj. Antarctica, picture courtesy of Sunita Hansraj. Antarctica, picture courtesy of Sunita Hansraj. Eliran Bar in Darwin College, assembled this bicycle from

26 Nov 2021: Harry's retirement dinner at Darwin College. Pictures courtesy of Hong Ge, Adreil Wong, Gebril El-Fallah and Dominik Dziedzic. Dining hall, Darwin College. Harry, Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, Ji. Adrian Kent sitting somewhat diagonally from Harry.