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14 Feb 2020: Professor Nirupam Chakraborti honoured in Sweden. #Professor Nirupam Chakraborti of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, has been awarded by International Association of Advanced Materials, the Scientist Medal. The award ceremony was

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

18 Apr 2021: Professor Kaiming Wu and colleagues watch the "100 years of books" presentation. The Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy in Cambridge celebrated its 100 year anniversary. One of the events to mark this occasion dealt with the books

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.

14 Feb 2020: Minerals (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh). Photographs courtesy of Apparao Chintha. Comments on crack paths?

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

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

24 May 2021: 60 mile bike ride, 23rd of May 2021. The cycling season is off to a gentle start, with pandemic precautions in place. Along the later sections of the route, we (Dominik Dziedzic, Steve Ooi, Harry Bhadeshia) battled wind and rain and felt quite

9 Feb 2021: More events during lockdown. Flooded river in Toft, Cambridge, UK. New, twisted building in Taipei, Taiwan. Photograph courtesy of Professor Jer-Ren Yang. The Tata Steel team on a hike near Jamshedpur. Ice dendrites photographed by Andy Howe near

14 Feb 2020: Arunim Ray and Wilberth Solano Alvarez in a mine. Following their studies at Cambridge University, both Arunim and Wilberth end up in an underground mine.

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.

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

14 Feb 2020: Baby daughter, Hee Young and Jae Hoon Jang (and steel). Hee Young and Jae Hoon Jang have a baby daughter, who already has been introduced to steels. Photographs courtesy of Jae Hoon Jang.

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

9 Oct 2022: Professor Wenwen Song (Aachen University) visits Harry. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Professor Wenwen Song, of Aachen University in Germany, visits Harry at Queen Mary University of London. She is renowned for her work on steels and recently was awarded

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: Harry at the Norwegian Research Council in Oslo.

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

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: Suresh Babu, tensile specimens, nuts from Libya, nibbles from China. Suresh Babu gives a talk on welding and additive manufacturing. Valve on bicycle tyre. Shaumik Lenka's beautiful tensile specimens. Shaumik Lenka's beautiful tensile specimens.

14 Feb 2020: View from the top of the Shard. #The Shard is a steel and glass building in London, with the appearance of broken glass with sharp edges. Photographs courtesy of Gebril El-Fallah.

14 Feb 2020: Cleaning the PT Group Laboratory. # Cleaning organised by Chris Hulme-Smith and Dominik Dziedzic. Shaumik Lenka. Shaumik Lenka. Chris Hulme-Smith. Dominik Dziedzic. Ailsa Kiely and Chris.

14 Feb 2020: Chris Hulme-Smith's leaving party. #Chris is leaving the University of Cambridge to join KTH Stockholm as Assistant Professor. This video was taken at the Saffron Restaurant in Cambridge, a leaving party. Photographs and video courtesy of Apparao

14 Feb 2020: Membre d'Honneur. Harry was elected to an Honorary Membership of the Société Française de Métallurgie et de Matériaux, SF2M. Journey begins with coffee at Cambridge Railway Station. Arrival at King’s Cross Station in London. Tube journey to

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

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: Snow, mountains, Switzerland, Snowflake, EBSD cake. Apart from the first one, the photographs were all taken in Switzerland, about 3 hours drive from Zurich, during December 2017. The cake pictures are from South Africa. A flake of snow,

14 Feb 2020: Riverside Museum, Glasgow. Photographs courtesy of Apparao Chintha.

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

7 Jan 2021: Comberton to Toft walk during lockdown. Lots of mud. Stream. This might be field of kale. Beacon in case the Vikings attack. Bridge - with helpful arrow to show direction. Sounds good - already had two cups. Not sure whether this refers to the

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: Professor Zhinan Yang returns to Yanshan University. Professor Zhinan Yang, who is translating the third edition of Bainite in Steels, left the University of Cambridge to return to Yanshan University.

4 Oct 2020: Apparao Chintha, Prasad Kopparthi and Gopi Krishna Chejarla, go cycling. October 2020. This has to be one of the most beautiful locations to cycle in. I think this is close to Dimla Lake. Pre-order for March 2021.

6 Mar 2021: New Museums Site, Old Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. These pictures show the transformation of the New Museums site after the move of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy to the new location on West Cambridge. The

14 Feb 2020: Squash championships, 2019. During 2019, there have to date (March 9th) been 36 matches between Apparao Chintha and Harry Bhadeshia. Each match has five sets, each set three games. The score so far is 17 to 19 and one fifth. The matches take place

14 Feb 2020: Sites and Sounds. # A fairly random collection of images, including one from the 1993 Gordon Conference. Steel samples designed to study distortion during quenching. The set for "Matilda", a musical at the Cambridge Theatre in London. The set for

14 Feb 2020: UK-China Steel Symposium, July 2018. The symposium was held at the University of Birmingham, organised by Professors Hanshan Dong (Birmingham University) and Hongbiao Dong (Leicester University). There were about 180 participants, including staff

14 Feb 2020: Visitors from Nippon Steel Corporation and Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology. Yasuhira Yamada of the Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, and Teppei Ohkawa of the Nippon Steel Corporation visited Cambridge during

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

12 Jun 2022: Visit to Boston, Schmidt Science Fellows occasion. Harry visited Boston in the USA on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Schmidt Science Fellowships programme. The objective is toDuring the journey towards Heathrow Airport, spotted this

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: Cycle race to St Ives, 20th May 2017. This was a timed race from the beginning of the guided busway in Cambridge to the bus stop in St Ives. Harry won this against Apparao Chinta, Gebril El-Fallah and Dominik Dziedzic with a time of just under 43

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: 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.

8 Oct 2022: X-ray diffraction equipment. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Desktop X-ray diffraction machines for teaching undergraduates the way diffraction data are collected. Everything is manual, for example, the manipulation of the Geiger counter as a function of

14 Feb 2020: Harry's 66th birthday, 2019. Harry has never been older. Celebrating in the Department tea room. Some photographs courtesy of Adreil Wong. Another vegan cake. Alcohol-free beer. This is what happened to Harry's bike with age. This is what happened

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: Darwin College, Girish Nivarti, Bainite in Steels, Twinned Rainbow. In Darwin College. Chris Hulme-Smith and Dominik. Nirupam Chakraborti sent this from a library in the USA. Girish Nivarti submitting his thesis on flame dynamics. An excerpt from

30 Aug 2022: Baking hot, bicycles, additive manufacturing, Russia, Malaysia, Queen Mary University of London. The pond in Comberton, completely barren with all water evaporated due to the heat wave and lack of rain. This is the Comberton pond in 2001 when we had

14 Feb 2020: Failed Suffolk 100 mile bike ride. Steve Ooi, Apparao Chintha, Gebril El Fallah and Harry Bhadeshia attempted the 100 mile Suffolk bike ride on the 16th of September 2018. Departed around 5.15 a.m. in Steves car which can hold three bikes, and Gebril