Teaching Materials

H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia

Year 2 (Metals & Alloys)

• Lecture notes, slides, videos

• More slides

• Worked Examples, Metals and Alloys

• Questions on Metallography of Dendrites
• General questions and answers, Metals and Alloys

• Al-Si casting alloys
• Centrifugal casting
• Al-Cu age-hardening alloy
• Annealing Twins
• Mechanical Twins
• Precipitate-free zones
• Decarburization
• Zener Pinning
• Recrystallisation of Austenitic Stainless Steel
• Kirkendall Effect
• Dendritic Solidification
• Excellent example of application of solidfication theory
• Recrystallised grain size
• Cast Iron
• An example of diffusion in action

• Grain Growth Simulations
• Computer-generated movies showing the evolution of microstructure
• Actual movies of solidification in progress
• Movie showing motion of recrystallisation front
• Dislocation interactions with gamma prime in nickel superalloy

• Experiments for Metals and Alloys
• Metallographic preparation

• Aeroengines
• FastShip Concept
• Fabrication of steel
• Tallest tower
• Bearings

Year 3 (Metals & Alloys)

• Metals and Alloys, lectures, question sheets, answers
• Videos of lectures

• Worked Examples, Metals and Alloys

• General questions and answers, Steels

• Example of a Literature Survey
• Example of a Techniques Project
• Example of a Long Vacation Project

• Bainite
• Encyclopedia article on Martensite
• Crystallography of austenite, ferrite and interstices
• Bain correspondence and Bain strain
• Cementite.
• Joining of aluminium
• Science in Parliament
• "On the right track"
• "British Steel alloy makes tough tracks"
• Hydrogen in Steels
• Solution Thermodynamics
• Movies of titanium metallurgy.
• Movie showing growth of bainite
• Movie showing fluid flow within a weld pool
• Movie showing an arc welding process.
• Movie showing an aeroengine-blade containment test.
• Quicktime Movie showing an aircraft taking off.
• Movies: fabrication of metals for the aerospace industries.
• Movies of the friction stir welding process
• Movies: the motion of dislocations in steel.
• Movie: shape memory alloy.
• Acoustic Emissions (singing steel)
• Creative Design

• Techniques for Optical Microscopy
• Photography using Class Microscope
• Photography using Class Digital-Microscope
• Quantitative Metallography
• Optical microscopy slides

• Nickel based superalloys
• Titanium and its alloys

• Aluminium cans
• Aluminium in aerospace

Year 4 (Materials Modelling)

• Lectures: Materials Modelling
• Worked Examples, Materials Modelling, Part III

Master of Philosophy (Materials Modelling)

Reading List

Course MP1: General Methodology

• Introduction to Crystallography
• Question sheet on Crystallography
• Slides for lecture 1
• Slides for lecture 2
• Brass, diamond, zinc sulphide and flourite
• Simulation of crystallographic texture development during recrystallisation.
• Lecture 14: Materials Algorithms Project (MAP): Public Domain Research Software and Data

Course MP4: Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams

• Lecture 1: The Thermodynamic Functions
  • Slides, Video, Streaming video
  • Question Sheet
• Lecture 2: Equilibrium between Solutions
  • Slides, Video, Streaming video
• Lecture 3: Models of Solutions
  • Slides, Video, Streaming video
• Lecture 4: Mechanical Alloying
  • Slides, Video, Streaming video
• Lecture 5: Computer Calculation of Phase Diagrams
  • Slides, Video, Streaming video
• Lecture 6: Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes
  • Slides, Video, Streaming video
• Lecture 7: Quasichemical Solution Model
  • Slides, Video, Streaming video

• Question Sheet 1
• Answer Sheet 1
• Question Sheet 2
• Answer Sheet 2

• Case Study: Nanocrystalline Metals
• Case Study: Thermodynamics of Mechanical Alloying
• Background on Mechanical Alloying
• More on solution formation
• Quasichemical Theory for Interstitial Solutions
• Instructions on use of MTDATA
• Computing Class on use of MTDATA
• Slides on the data used in the calculation of phase diagrams
• Slides on the calculation of phase diagrams using MTDATA

Course MP5: Mesoscale and Multiscale Modelling

• Lecture 7: Design of Alloys for the Energy Industries

Course MP6: Kinetics & Microstructure Modelling

• Lecture 3: Introduction to Diffusion
  • Slides, Video
• Lecture 4: Thermodynamics of Diffusion: Spinodal Decomposition
  • Slides, Video
  • Movie showing spinodal decomposition
  • Simulation of spinodal decomposition.
• Lecture 5: Diffusion-Controlled Growth
  • Slides, Video
• Appendix: Elementary Nucleation Theory
• Lecture 7: Other Interface-Response Functions
  • Slides, Video
• Lecture 8: Growth Morphologies
  • Movies showing dendritic and cellular solidification
  • Slides , Video
• Lecture 9: Overall Transformation Kinetics
  • Slides , Video
• Appendix: Elementary Nucleation Theory
• Lecture 10: Overall Transformation Kinetics II
  • Slides , Video
• Lecture 14: Case Study: Creep-Resistant Steels
  • Slides, Video
• Lecture 15: Phase Field Modelling
  • Slides, Video

• Computing Class: Time-Temperature-Transformation Diagrams

Course MP7: Finite Element Analysis

• Lecture 2: Introduction and Elastic Analysis
  • Slides, Video
• Lecture 3: Thermal Analysis
  • Slides, Video

• Example application

Course MP9: Information Theory, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks

This course is merely an introduction to neural network analysis in the Bayesian framework. More can be found in MacKay's article below, which also contains key references. Indeed, the authors owe an especial debt to Dr MacKay for help in compiling this course. Lectures 3 and 4 require familiarity with matrices. The examples classes are extra-curricular.

• Lecture 1: Introduction to neural networks
  • Animation of hyperbolic tangents
  • Slides
  • Video
• Lecture 2: Gaussian distributions
  • Some basic definitions
  • More on Gaussians
  • Slides
  • MacKay's video on Gaussian Processes
• Lecture 3: Bayesian framework
  • Slides
• Lecture 4: Worked example
  • Slides
• Lecture 5: Genetic algorithms with neural networks
  • Slides
• Lecture 6: Case studies
  • Slides
• Lecture 7: Tricks
  • Slides

• Appendix: Elements of matrix algebra
• Spreadsheet for matrix operations

• Bayesian neural networks
• Review and other papers

• Examples Class 1
• Data for Examples Class 1
• Answers to Examples Class 1
• Examples Class 2
• Answers to Examples Class 2

• Genetic Algorithms

Course MP10: Process Modelling

• Lecture 5: Fusion Welding
• Slides for lecture 5
• Lecture 6: Steel Microstructures
• Slides for lecture 6
• Lecture 7: Weld Microstructure Model
• Slides for lecture 7

Literature Survey

• Instructions

Thesis

• Guidelines for thesis

Seminars

• Maximum entropy method, by Geoff Cottrell, Culham Science Centre

• Genetic algorithms, by Tracey Cool, Rolls-Royce Marine

• Phase diagram calculations by Hugh Davies, National Physical Laboratories

• Data used in phase diagram calculations by John Gisby, National Physical Laboratories

• Why have sex? by David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University

• Journey to the centre of the Eart by Lidunka Vocaldo, UCL London.

• Aluminium in Aerospace Applications by Joseph Robson, UMIST, Manchester, U.K.

• Intermetallics and Aluminium for Cans, by Havovy Cama, Alcan Inc., U.K.

• Magnetism on the verge of breakdown, by May Chiao (ETH-Hoenggerberg, Zurich).

• The Concepts Behind the Trent Aerongine, by Michael Cervenka, Rolls-Royce.

• The Prediction of Climate, the Physics of Risk, by Emily Shuckburg, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University. Full html, and Powerpoint presentation of her seminar. Image of audience. Video clip 1. Video clip 2. Video clip 3. The video clips require a Windows Multimedia Player.

• Ductile Iron, by Rachel Thomson, Loughborough University. Powerpoint presentation ~~~ Published review

• Density Functional Description of Cobalt Silicide on Silicon, by Steven Kenny, Department of Materials, Oxford University. Download PDF file Video clip 1. Video clip 2. The video clips require a Windows Multimedia Player.

• Unsteady Turbine Aerodynamics - from laboratory to the engine, by Robert Howell (Whittle Laboratory, Engineering): Powerpoint presentation Video clip 1. Video clip 2. Video clip 3. The video clips require a Windows Multimedia Player.

• Composites for Aerospace Structures, by Stefanie Feih (Engineering): Powerpoint presentation Video clip 1. Video clip 2. Video clip 3. The video clips require a Windows Multimedia Player.

• First Principles Quantum Mechanical Modelling of Biological Molecules, by Matthew Segall

• Steels and Ferrous Alloys, by David Naylor (Corus)

• Metallurgy (non-ferrous) research, present and future, by Ricky Ricks (Alcan International Limited)

• Shipbuilding Market Trends by Ian Ritchie (Rolls-Royce plc)

• 21st Century Propulsion Systems, (14 Mb, Word document) by Julia King, Rolls-Royce Marine

Examination Papers

• M.Phil. examination papers

Thermal Analysis

• Introduction, Differential Thermal Analysis, Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Dilatometry, Other Techniques and References

Review Articles

General Articles

• Teaching 60,000 students per month
• Aspects of Materials Education, in the English and Japanese languages.

Books

Available for Free Download

• Bainite in Steels
• Mathematical Crystallography
• Alloying Elements in Steels
• Physical Properties of Martensite and Bainite
• Mechanisms of Phase Transformations in Crystalline Solids
• Crystal Plasticity
• Extremely Strong Steels
• Solidification
• Conference Proceedings

Restricted Download

• Introduction to Materials Modelling
• Steels
• Other Books