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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

20 Sep 2022: Harry and Colin in New Orleans. Harry Bhadeshia and Colin Humphreys went to the International Metallographic Society's ASM meeting at New Orleans during September 2022. Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, the "model of a modern materials scientist".

14 Feb 2020: Tatsuya Otsuki visits from University of Tokyo. Tatsuya is just about to graduate at the University of Tokyo, where he will pursue a Masters course before considering a Ph.D. project. He came to London with his friends, on holiday, but like a

14 Feb 2020: Cycling to St Ives and Houghton Mill. # A team composed of Darwin College members, Physics, and Materials Science and Metallurgy, on a beautiful summer's day. Photographs courtesy of Apparao Chintha, Dominik Dziedzic, Richard Gymer and Mathew Peet.

14 Feb 2020: Daniel Gaude Fugarolis, Steven Feng, Sivasambu Bohm, Amir Shirzadi, Guo Lei, Andrzej Bugajski vegan food. Vegan flapjack made by Harry. Daniel Guade Fugarolis (PT Group member) took a diversion to Cambridge during a trip to see his God-son in Wales.

14 Feb 2020: Punting on the River Cam, August 2017. #The Phase Transformations Research Group, punting on a busy River Cam, starting from Darwin College, all the way to the lock. Photographs and videos courtesy of Apparao Chintha. The route followed. Higher

14 Feb 2020: PT Group at the Spiderman (homecoming) movie. #A meal at Bella Italia, followed by the latest Spiderman movie in two dimensions. Also some leaving presents for Wilberth Solano Alvarez. The event was organised by Wendy. Bella Italia. Chris Hulme-Smith

22 Dec 2022: Bainite in Steels. Free books available for download. Zhinan Yang, Fucheng Zhang.

12 Mar 2023: Harry's Inaugural Lecture at Queen Mary University of London. Held on the 8th of February, Harry's inaugural lecture was a part of the Night of Sciences organised by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). Debashish Bhattacharjee who is the Head of

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

14 Feb 2020: Data-centric engineering and Greg Olson. A Data-centric engineering workshop held at the Samberg Conference Centre, MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts, followed by a visit to Northwestern University to celebrate Greg Olson's change of purpose. The hotel

14 Feb 2020: Geometry of Crystals, Polycrystals, and Phase Transformations. #This book, published on the 25th of August 2017, is organized into a two-part structure aimed at readers of differing experience levels, Geometry of Crystals, Polycrystals, and Phase

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: Advanced Steels (ICAS2018), Jeju, South Korea. #An international conference on advanced steels held on the volcanic island of Jeju (Cheju) in South Korea. Harry at Heathrow Airport about to leave for Seoul. People call this a "selfie". Ticket to

14 Feb 2020: Howe Memorial Lecture, AIST 2017. The Association of Iron and Steel Technologies held its annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Omni Hotel, Nashville. Partly complete skyscraper. Partly complete skyscraper. Partly complete skyscraper. Another

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: 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

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.

6 Jul 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

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.

4 Jul 2024: Teaching Materials. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia.. Crystallography. Examination questions. Slides and Videos. Animations. Scaleable vector graphics. Metals & Alloys (year 2). Phase transformations (year 2, Queen Mary University of London). Phase

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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.

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

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

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

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),

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