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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: 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,

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),

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

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

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

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