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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

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

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

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

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: The Jominy End Quench Test. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. A heat treatment that causes steel to harden is so much more than the meer plunging of hot metal into a fluid that is often a liquid. The initial red-hot state represents the austenitic condition

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

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.

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.

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: 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.

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

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

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.

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: 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: 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: 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

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

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

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

12 Jun 2020: Still in lockdown, June 2020. Vegan banana cake. Cherry blossom. Inside of an Amazon Kindle which stopped working. Weed with nice flowers. Back cover of Kindle. Another weed, but nice flower. After some jiggery pokery, the Kindle came alive.

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

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: Minerals (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh). Photographs courtesy of Apparao Chintha. Comments on crack paths?

16 Nov 2020: Indian food for Diwali by our Polish colleague Dominik Dziedzic. Diwali celebration at Dominik Dziedzic's apartment. Harry's Diwali. Harry's Diwali. Delicious spiced-tea. Pre-order for March 2021.

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

14 Feb 2020: Chocolates from Mexico, and visitors from Mehran University. Wilberth Alvarez Solano brought these chocolates from Mexico. Cocao originates from Mexico and Central America. Apparao Chintha, Gebril El-Fallah and Wilberth. Professor Tauha Hussain Ali

14 Feb 2020: Random images. Zixin Huang, Dominik Dziedzic and Wen Di wear superbainite paraphenalia. TheHarry's "stay calm, I am a metallurgist" mug disappeared for two months, and then magically returned at the sink on the 5th floor. Gentleman's bicycle

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,

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

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: 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: 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: Sourabh Chatterjee, Spring, Iraq, Birmingham University. Saurabh Chatterjee and team win a major award for a reduction in the silicon content of a class of steels without compromising properties, at Tata Steel. Spring in Pohang, South Korea.

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

14 Feb 2020: Zixin Huang after her Ph.D. examination. Zixin Huang had her Ph.D. viva, with Andy Howe as the External Examiner, and Cathie Rae from the University of Cambridge.

14 Feb 2020: Some birthday celebrations during November. Photographs courtesy of many people. At Pizza Express, King street, Cambridge. We first tried Rainbows (now closed), then Stem and Glory (full) and finally an old favourite. Partial crystallinity of

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

14 Feb 2020: Lulea University of Technology (LUT), Sweden. Harry visited LUT in order to deliver two lectures on steels and to discuss research and teaching with the staff and students in the Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics. Some images

14 Feb 2020: John Ray Lecture, St Catherine's College, Cambridge. The talk by Harry was followed by dinner with students (Presidents of the John Ray Society) from the College, at the Ivy Restaurant in Cambridge.