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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: 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: 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: 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

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.