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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: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

7 Jul 2024: Deltoidal icositetrahedron faceting on α-Fe crystals found on the surface of the Moon. K. M. Knowles and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Abstract. Crystallographic analysis of scanning electron microscopy images of small μm-sized single crystals of b.c.c.

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

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

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

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

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.

4 Jan 2021: Jean assembles hydraulic claw. #Click a picture to see a larger view. Pre-order for March 2021.

14 Feb 2020: Gebril El-Fallah and Mathew Peet. # Gebril returned from his trip to see his family in Libya, bearing gifts. Also, Mathew Peet in action at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

14 Feb 2020: Konark Sun Temple. The Konrak Sun Temple is not far from Puri on the coastline of Oshida, India. There was a steel metallurgy conference held in the vicinity. Pictures courtesy of Apparao Chintha. The temple itself is from 150 BCE.

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

14 Feb 2020: Crystals, polycrystals and phase transformations. # Crystals represent order. ABCABSCABCABCABCABC., not. On Wendy and Dominik’s desks. Shaumik Lenka. Apparao Chintha and Shaumik Lenka. Di Wen’s desk. Professor Dong Woo Suh, POSTECH, South Korea.

14 Feb 2020: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Laureate, visits Spain. #Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Laureate and President of the Royal Society, visits Santendar for a summer school on biology. He described the structure of ribosomes as revealed using electron

11 Mar 2021: Professor Kazutoshi Ichikawa wins awards. Professor Kazutoshi Ichikawa (PT Group Member) of Tohoku University has been awarded two major prizes for highly-ductile steel plate for shipbuilding. The first by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure,

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: Open day, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. # The LMB will be opening its doors to all on Saturday 17 June. Mathew Peet was involved in the task of explaining scientific principles to children. César Milstein was a Fellow of Darwin

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

14 Feb 2020: Visitors from Shanghai University. # Professors Zhongming Ren, who si the Director of the State Key Laboratory on Advanced Special Steel, and Professor Jiang Wang visited on Saturday the 29th of July. They were accompanied by a colleague who works

4 Aug 2020: Events during early August, 2020. Hard copy of Harry's book for checking before sending to publisher. A gift from DebRoy on completion of another book which we co-authored, currently being typeset. Courtesy DebRoy. The wonderful, early-morning

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: 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: 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: Multiple events. Photographs courtesy of Di Wen, Apparao Chintha, Vladimir Tsepelev, Hans Werner Zoch. image1. Wendy is an Apple fan. Here with an iPatch following a visit to the iDoctor. IMG_20170801_162038383. КИТАЙСЕНТ17 016.

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.

23 Aug 2020: Events during early late August, 2020. Potato left on ground, sprouting. Another potato in similar circumstances. Subhankar Das Bakshi (PT group member) reading "Steels" while in isolation. Gladioli in Comberton. Gladioli in Comberton. Gladioli in

14 Feb 2020: Steel, bus stop, lift, and flowers. Inside the lift in the Department of Materials Science and Metallugy. The tape has a strong magnet at the end away from the real. It is attracted by the stainless steel, indicating that the latter is ferritic.

14 Feb 2020: Download Harry's paper on the atomic mechanism of the bainite transformation.

14 Feb 2020: Apparao Chintha at AIST. Apparao attended the American Institute for Steel Technology meeting in Philadelphia. At this meeting, Anand Sen of Tata Steel was presented the Steelmaker of the Year Award. Photographs courtesy of Apparao Chintha.

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

18 Apr 2020: Cambridge during lockdown, March-April 2020. To compile a nomenclature list for ordered greek symbols in Latex, nomenclature[ghc]{$Theta$}{Functional response} where g represents Greek, h according to the list, theta and c for upper case theta.

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.

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

14 Feb 2020: Professor Satish Vasu Kailas visits Nairobi, Kenya. Professor Satish Vasu Kailas, who qualified with his Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Science, visited University of Nairobi to build collaborations with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He

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,

14 Feb 2020: Honliang Yi, Steve Ooi, Apparao Chintha, Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Kazuki Inujima, sweetcorn, Taipei 101, Steels book. Taipei 101 at night, picture courtesy of Professor Jer Ren Yang. This accidentally fell from Harry's desk into the bin, kindly recovered

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

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: 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