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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

14 Feb 2020: Machine learning in materials science. #Harry gave a lecture at the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, The University of Birmingham. A model of a dredger at the entrance of the Department - not a very good picture because it was

14 Feb 2020: Harry in Moscow, Russian Federation. Harry was at the National University of Science and Technology, NUST MISIS, in early October 2018, for the tenth meeting of the International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC). The University is located at

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

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

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.

14 Jun 2024: Books. Available for Free Download. The following reproduced with the permission of Dr Alan Armour, Climax Molybdenum. ... Restricted Download. Published, 2023. October 8th, 2024.

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

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

14 Feb 2020: Very Strong Low Temperature Bainite. F. G. Caballero, H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia, K. J. A. Mawella, D. G. Jones and P. Brown. Abstract. Bainite has been obtained by heat treatment at temperatures as low as 125. o. C in a high carbon, high silicon steel.

14 Feb 2020: British, supersonic, stainless steel aircraft. The BAC-188 was an experimental aircraft made by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. The aeroplane was made from titanium-stabillised stainless steel so that it could withstand skin temperatures of 300

16 Jun 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

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

17 Jun 2024: Pictures of steel. These photographs courtesy of Jasmine Tong of the Hunan Great Steel Pipe Company Limited, who sent them in an unsolicited email. Steel. More steel. Even more steel. 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.

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

14 Feb 2020: 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

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

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: 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

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 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.

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),

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

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

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: 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

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: 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

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

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

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.

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.