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Uphill diffusion |
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Kirkendall effect | |
| Decarburization | ||||
| Diffusion in action | ||||
| Solidification | Slides | Video | |
Centrifugal casting |
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Dendritic solidification | |
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Metallography of dendrites | |
| Al-Si casting alloys | ||||
| Solidification movies | ||||
| Simulated solidification | ||||
| Technology | ||||
| Recovery, Recrystallisation & Grain Growth | Slides | Video | |
Annealing twins |
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Mechanical Twins | ||
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Zener pinning | |
| Austenite recrystallisation | ||||
| Recrystallised grain size | ||||
| Grain growth simulations | ||||
| Recrystallisation: movie | ||||
| Recrystallisation: copper | ||||
| Martensitic Transformations | Slides | Video | |
Cry of indium |
| Ferrous Alloys | Slides | Video | |
Cast iron |
| Fabrication of steel | ||||
| Tallest tower | ||||
| Bearings | ||||
| Other Metallic Materials | Slides | Video | |
Al-Cu age-hardening |
| Precipitate-free zones | ||||
| High Temperature Alloys | Slides | Video | |
Aeroengines |
| Superalloys | ||||
| Superalloy dislocations | ||||
| FastShip concept | ||||
| Question Sheet 1 | Answers | |||
| Question Sheet 2 | Answers | Latex files, examination papers | ||
| Question Sheet 3 | Answers | Experiments | ||
| Question Sheet 4 | Answers | Metallographic preparation | ||
| Any Questions? | Images | Worked examples |
| Phase transformations (book) | |||
| Mechanisms of transformation | Slides, 1 | Video of lecture 1 | Podcast 1, Different perspective |
| Curie temperature | |||
| Elementary thermodynamics | Slides, 2 | Video of lecture 2 | Podcast 2, Different perspective |
| Geiger counter | |||
| Equilibrium state | Slides, 3 | Video of lecture 3 | Podcast 3, Different perspective |
| Growing aluminium dendrite | |||
| Phase diagrams | Slides, 4 | Video of lecture 4 | Podcast 4, Different perspective |
| 3D model of ternary phase diagram | |||
| Diffusion | Slides, 5 | Video of lecture 5 | Podcast 5, Different perspective |
| Multicomponent phase diagrams | |||
| Atomic mechanisms of diffusion | Slides, 6 | Video of lecture 6 | Podcast 6, Different perspective |
| Multicomponent phase diagrams | |||
| Problem-based learning 1 | |||
| Nucleation | Slides, 7 | Video of lecture 7 | Podcast 7, Different perspective |
| Solidification | Slides, 8 | Video of lecture 8 | Podcast 8, Different perspective |
| Steels | Slides, 9 | Video of lecture 9 | Podcast 9, Different perspective |
| Aluminium | Slides, 10 | Video of lecture 10 | Podcast 10, Different perspective |
| Practical |
| Aluminium alloys | Slides | Video | |
More information |
| Aluminium cans | ||||
| Aerospace aluminium | ||||
| Titanium alloys | Slides | Video | |
More information |
| Titanium aeroengine fire | ||||
| Martensitic transformations | Slides | Video | |
More information |
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| Bainite | Slides | Video | |
Multilingual bainite |
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Bainite in bearings | |||
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| Bainite growth | ||||
| Widmanstaetten ferrite | Slides | Video | |
More information |
| Allotriomorphs and Idiomorphs | Slides | Video | |
More information |
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| Strong steels | Slides | Video | |
More information |
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Strength+toughness movie | |||
| Welds | Slides | Video | |
More information |
| Examples class | Answers | Example techniques project | ||
| Question Sheet 1 | Answers | Example literature review | ||
| Question Sheet 2 | Answers | Example vacation project |
| Worked examples | Steel queries | ||
| Crystallography of interstices | Bain strain and correspondence | ||
| Cementite | Joining of aluminium | ||
| Science in Parliament | "On the right track" | ||
| Tough tracks | Hydrogen in steels | ||
| Solution thermodynamics | Flow within a weld pool | ||
| Arc welding | Aeroengine-blade containment | ||
| Aircraft taking off | Fabrication of metals | ||
| Friction stir welding | Motion of dislocations | ||
| Shape memory alloy. | Singing steel | ||
| Creative design | Optical microscopy | ||
| Using Class microscope | Using Class digital-microscope | ||
| Quantitative metallography | Optical microscopy slides | More slides | |
Lecture video playlist (2020), Lecture video playlist (2022)
Book: Steels, 4th edition, Bhadeshia and Honeycombe
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| Lecture notes | Martensite part 1, part 2 | |
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Martensite I | Habit inclination | Impingement | |
| Martensite movie | |
Martensite II | Burst martensite | Nucleation | |||
| Bainite | |
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Bainite | Crystal size | Ohm's law | ||
| Strong bainite | |
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Bainite: design | Diffusion distance | Plate growth | ||
| Examples class | Widmanstaetten ferrite | |
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Widmanstaetten | Displacive | Sessile | |
| Latex files | Allotriomorphic ferrite | |
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Ferrite | Tapered tensile | Sphere | |
| Multicomponent steel | |
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| Pearlite growth spread sheet | Pearlite | |
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Pearlite | T-zero | ||
| Overall kinetics | |
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Overall kinetics | Dislocation | Stacking | ||
| TRIP steel | |
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TRIP steel | Ellipsoids | T0 schematic | ||
| TWIP steel | |
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TWIP/TRIP | Extrusion | TRIP-Ms | ||
| Bulk nanostructured steel | |
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Nanostructured | Glissile | TWIP impact |
| Revision thermodynamics |
| Computation of phase diagrams |
| Thermodynamics of irreversible processes |
| Finite element analysis |
| Worked examples |
| Introduction to Crystallography | Slides | Slides | Questions |
| Brass, diamond, zinc sulphide and flourite | |||
| Simulation of recrystallisation | |||
| Materials algorithms |
| Thermodynamic functions | Slides | |
Questions | ||
| Equilibrium between solutions | Slides | |
More on solution formation | ||
| Mechanical alloying | Slides | |
Nanocrystalline metals | ||
| Boltzmann's epitaph (courtesy, Mark Hull) | Mechanical alloying | ||||
| Computation of phase diagrams | Slides | |
MTDATA instructions | ||
| Computing Class on MTDATA | |||||
| Data for phase diagrams | |||||
| Calculations using MTDATA | |||||
| Irreversible processes | Slides | |
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| Quasichemical solutions | Slides | |
Interstitial Solutions | ||
| Question Sheet 1 | Answers | ||||
| Question Sheet 2 | Answers | ||||
| High-entropy alloys, Part 1 | |||||
| High-entropy alloys, Part 2 | |||||
| High-entropy alloys, Part 3 | |||||
FactSage© is an integrated database computing system in chemical thermodynamics. Dr Feng Liu kindly provided the materials below, which formed a part of his 3rd year undergraduate course at the University of Toronto, Canada.
| Information and databases |
| Reaction module |
| Phase diagram calculations |
| Equilibrium module |
| More on equilibrium module |
Design of alloys for the energy industries
| Introduction to diffusion | Slides | Video | |
Uphill diffusion |
| Thermodynamics of diffusion | Slides | Video | |
Movie: spinodal decomposition |
| Spinodal simulation | ||||
| Diffusion-Controlled Growth | Slides | Video | |
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| Other interface-response functions | Slides | Video | |
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| Growth morphologies | Slides | Video | |
Dendrites and cells - the movie |
| Overall Transformation Kinetics | Slides | Video | |
Elementary nucleation theory |
| Overall Transformation Kinetics II | Slides | Video | |
Computing TTT diagrams |
| Creep-resistant steels | Slides | Video | |
Review on phase fields |
| Phase Field Modelling | Slides | Video | |
Thesis |
| Applications of Phase Field Modelling | ||||
| Diffusion in steep gradients |
| Introduction and elastic analysis | Slides | Video | |
Example application |
| Thermal Analysis | Slides | Video | |
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| Modelling resources | ||||
| More modelling resources |
| Neural networks | Slides | Video | Hyperbolic tangents |
| Gaussian distributions | Slides | |
More on Gaussians |
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Gaussian Processes video | ||
| Basic definitions | |||
| Bayesian framework | Slides | Matrix algebra | |
| Worked example | Slides | Spreadsheet for matrix operations | |
| Genetic algorithms with neural networks | Slides | Bayesian neural networks | |
| Case studies | Slides | Review | |
| Tricks | Slides | Genetic Algorithms | |
| Examples Class 1 | Data | Answers | |
| Examples Class 2 | Answers |
| Fusion Welding | Slides |
| Steel microstructures | Slides |
| Weld microstructure model | Slides |
| Blast-resistant steel | Steel, Ingenuity and Future |
| Maximum entropy method | Genetic algorithms |
| Phase diagram calculations | Thermodynamic data |
| Why have sex? | Centre of the Earth |
| Aerospace aluminium | Intermetallics and aluminium cans |
| Magnetism on verge of breakdown | Trent aerongine |
| Climate and risk | Ductile iron |
| Cobalt silicide | Unsteady turbine aerodynamics |
| Composites for aerospace | Biological molecules |
| Steels | Non-ferrous metallurgy |
| Shipbuilding | Propulsion Systems |
| M.Phil. examination papers | Instructions for literature review |
| Guidelines for thesis | Reading List |
| Steels for rails | |
| Models in Materials Science | Friction Stir Welding |
| Friction Stir Welding Tools | Dimensions of Steel |
| Coalesced Bainite | Crystallographic Texture |
| Diffusional Transformations | Phase Transformations in Steels |
| Bainite: Unresolved Issues | Very Strong Bainite |
| Nanocrystalline Bainite | Nanocrystalline Steel |
| Creep-Resistant Stainless Steels | Ferritic Creep-Resistant Steels |
| Design of Superalloys | Design of Steels |
| Neural Networks | Simultaneous Transformations |
| Frontiers in Welding Metallurgy | Modelling Steel Welds |
| Type IV Cracking of Welds | New Welding Alloys |
| Strong Ferritic-Steel Welds | Alternatives to Ferrite-Pearlite |
| Steels: Remanent Life Assessment | Mechanical Alloying |
| Mechanically Alloyed Metals | Residual Stress, Part 1 |
| Residual Stress, Part 2 | Efficient Design of New Alloys |
| Phase Field Method | Bearing Steels |
| Bainite controversy | Macrosegregation |
| Anisotropy of pipes | Computational design |
| Low-temperature welds | Phosphorus embrittlement |
| Hydrogen embrittlement | Diffusion-controlled growth |
| General Articles | Science for 5 year olds |
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| Teaching 60,000 students per month | Density - lesson 1 |
| Aspects of Materials Education | Density - lesson 2 |
| Van Horn lectures | |
| Darwin College Lectures, 2023 |
| Free | Restricted |
| Theory of Transformations in Steels |
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| Bainite in Steels | Introduction to Materials Modelling |
| Mathematical Crystallography | Steels |
| Alloying Elements in Steels | Other Books |
| Physical Properties of Martensite and Bainite | Isolation |
| Mechanisms of Phase Transformations in Crystalline Solids | |
| Crystal Plasticity | |
| Extremely Strong Steels | |
| Solidification | |
| Conference Proceedings | |
| Transformation and Hardenability in Steels | |
| Alloys for the Eighties | |
| Towards Improved Ductility and Toughness |
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