Harshad Bhadeshia Explained

Sir Harshad Bhadeshia
Birth Name:Harshad Kumar Dharamshi Hansraj Bhadeshia
Birth Date:1953 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Kenya
Other Names:Harry Bhadeshia
Workplaces:University of Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London
Thesis Title:Theory and significance of retained austenite in steels
Thesis Url:http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.37375
Thesis Year:1980
Doctoral Advisor:David V. Edmonds
Doctoral Students:Roger Reed[1]
Rachel Thomson[2]
Awards:Armourers and Brasiers' Company Prize (1997)
Knight Bachelor (2015)
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Sir Harshad "Harry" Kumar Dharamshi Hansraj Bhadeshia (born 27 November 1953) is an Indian-British metallurgist and Emeritus Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. In 2022 he joined Queen Mary University of London as Professor of Metallurgy.[3]

Education and early life

Bhadeshia was born in Kenya to Indian parents,[4] [5] who were carpenters. During the 19th century, many Indian workers emigrated to Kenya for building bridges, railway tracks, shops etc. Bhadeshia's interest in science started when he visited the battery shop where his father worked. He was educated at the Kongoni Primary School.[6] During the time that Kenya was a colony and protectorate of Britain, this was the Nairobi South Primary School, but in 1963 morphed to its new name under the auspices of the Government of Kenya (kongoni is a Swahili word referring to an African antelope). He then went on to the Highway Secondary School, also in Nairobi.[7]

He moved with his family to the United Kingdom in 1970[8] and joined the British Oxygen Company in Edmonton as a technician in their metallurgical quality control laboratory.[9] This allowed him to study part-time at the East Ham College of Technology in London, for the Ordinary National Certificate in Science. He then moved to the quality control laboratory at Murex Welding Processes, and they sponsored him to study at the City of London Polytechnic where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1976. Professor Robert Honeycombe was at the time the external examiner for the course at the Polytechnic and encouraged him to join his research group at the University of Cambridge. He was admitted to the University of Cambridge to work on the theory and significance of retained austenite in steels and obtained his PhD in 1980 supervised by David V. Edmonds, in Honeycombe's Steel Research Group.[10] The nature of austenite that is retained depends on the preceding phase transformations – as a research student he focused therefore on unravelling the choreography of atoms when austenite undergoes bainitic or martensitic transformation.

Career and research

Bhadeshia's research is concerned with the theory of solid-state transformations in metals, particularly multicomponent steels, with the goal of creating novel alloys and processes with the minimum use of resources.[11]

Following his PhD, he worked as a Science Research Council Research Fellow until 1981 and has been part of the academic staff at the University of Cambridge since then. He is the author or co-author of more than 650 published papers in the field of metallurgy[12] and several books.[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]

In the 1990s, he worked with British Steel plc on a carbide-free, silicon-rich bainitic steel that was used for rails in the Channel Tunnel[22] and later on a high-performance armour steel for the British Ministry of Defence.[23]

In 2006, he was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining for "outstanding services to the Steel Industry".[24] In November 2008, he was appointed the first Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy following a donation by Tata Steel to endow this chair on a permanent basis at the University of Cambridge[25] and he established and took the lead of the new "SKF University Technology Centre", between SKF and the University of Cambridge to conduct research in the field of the physical metallurgy of bearing steels, over the period 2009–2019.[26]

During 2005–18, as the Founding Director of the Computational Metallurgy Laboratory, he helped create the Graduate Institute for Ferrous Technology at POSTECH in the Republic of Korea.

There exists a BBC podcast on the topics covered here, The Life Scientific.[27]

Teaching

Bhadeshia has developed a wide range of freely accessible teaching materials on metallurgy and associated subjects.[28] The subject matters cover crystallography, metals and alloys, steels in particular, phase transformation theory, thermodynamics, kinetics, mathematical modelling in materials science, information theory, process modelling, thermal analysis, ethics and natural philosophy.

The resources include lecture notes, slides, videos, algorithms, review articles, books, cartoons, audio files, experimental data archives, image libraries, seminars, examples classes, question sheets and answers, automated learning (MOOCS), and a diverse range of other electronic resources. A YouTube channel (bhadeshia123) contains about 1300 educational videos.[29]

The resources are archived as a permanent record by the British Library in an open access mode. For "outstanding teaching activities", he was conferred the Adams Memorial Membership Award of the American Welding Society during 2007.[30]

Editorial positions

Bhadhesia has served as editor for the following journals:

Awards and honours

Notes and References

  1. PhD. University of Cambridge. The characterisation and modelling of multipass steel weld heat-affected zones.. Roger Charles. Reed. 1990. . ethos.bl.uk.
  2. PhD. University of Cambridge. Carbide composition changes in power plant steels as a method of remanent creep life prediction. 10.17863/CAM.14229. Rachel Clare. Thomson. 1992. . cam.ac.uk. 557294046.
  3. Web site: Queen Mary University of London . 10 January 2022 . 10 January 2022.
  4. Web site: Harry Bhadeshia's Steel Connects UK, France . 27 February 2012 . Forbes India . 13 April 2012.
  5. Web site: Harry Bhadeshia's The Life Scientific. 5 December 2023 . 1 January 2024.
  6. Web site: Kongoni Primary School . . 8 January 2020.
  7. Web site: Highway Secondary School. 4 March 2019.
  8. Web site: Voice of Science – Harry Bhadeshia. British Library. 4 March 2019. 3 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170503222114/http://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science/interviewees/harry-bhadeshia. dead.
  9. Web site: Inspiring Scientists: STEM Learning. 1 January 2020.
  10. PhD. University of Cambridge. The significance of retained austenite in steels. H. K. D. H.. Bhadeshia. 1980. . 10.17863/CAM.14245. cam.ac.uk. 843782039.
  11. Book: David E. Laughlin. Kazuhiro Hono. Physical Metallurgy. 2014. Newnes. 978-0-444-53771-3. 1072.
  12. Withers. P.J.. Philip J. Withers. Bhadeshia. H.K.D.H.. Harshad Bhadeshia. Residual stress. Part 1 – Measurement techniques. Materials Science and Technology. 17. 4. 2013. 355–365. 10.1179/026708301101509980. 17492980.
  13. Book: Steels: Microstructure and Properties . Bhadeshia . H. K. D. H. . Honeycombe . Robert. Robert Honeycombe . 2006 . . 978-0750680844.
  14. Book: Bhadeshia. H. K. D. H.. Bainite in steels . Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. 2001. 978-1861251121.
  15. Book: Bhadeshia. H. K. D. H.. Worked Examples in the Geometry of Crystals. Maney Publishing. 1987. 978-0904357943.
  16. Book: Bhadeshia, Harshad. Bainite in Steels: theory and practice. Maney Publishing. 2015. 978-1909662742. U. K.. 1–600.
  17. Book: Bhadeshia, Harshad. Steels: Microstructure and Properties, 4th edition. Elsevier. 2017. 9780081002704. U. K.. 1–462.
  18. Book: Bhadeshia, Harshad. Geometry of Crystals, Polycrystals and Phase Transformations, 1st edition. CRC Press. 2017. 9781138070783. U. K.. 1–251.
  19. Book: Bhadeshia, Harshad. Innovations in everyday engineering materials. Springer Nature Press. 2021. 9783030576127. U. K.. 1–160.
  20. Book: Bhadeshia, Harshad. Theory of Transformations in Steels. CRC Press Press. 2021. 9781003056782. U. K.. 1–660.
  21. Book: Bhadeshia, Harshad. Steels: Structure, properties and design, 5th edition. Elsevier. 2024. 9780443184918. U. K.. 1–506.
  22. Web site: British Steel alloy makes tough tracks . 19 June 1996 . . 13 April 2012.
  23. Web site: New armour steel showcased at DSEi . 14 September 2011 . . 13 April 2012.
  24. Web site: Professor Harry Bhadeshia Receives Bessemer Gold Medal . 10 July 2006 . . 13 April 2012.
  25. Web site: Tata Steel group endows professorship in metallurgy at University of Cambridge . 24 November 2008 . . 13 April 2012 . 22 November 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111122200333/http://tata.com/company/releases/inside.aspx?artid=3xRPg9oaCEs= . dead .
  26. Web site: SKF University Technology Centre opens up research into new bearing steels at University of Cambridge . May 2009 . . 13 April 2012.
  27. Web site: The Life Scientific - Sir Harry Bhadeshia . 5 February 2024 . . 20 May 2024.
  28. https://www.phase-trans.msm.cam.ac.uk/teaching.html Teaching materials
  29. https://www.youtube.com/user/bhadeshia123 Teaching videos
  30. Web site: Adams Memorial Membership Award . 4 February 2020 . 4 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200204090518/https://app.aws.org/awards/index061108 . dead .
  31. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/materials-science-and-engineering-a/editorial-board 'Materials Science and Engineering: A – Editorial Board"
  32. https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=ymst20 'Editorial board'
  33. https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=ystw20 'Editorial board'
  34. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbm/editorial-board 'Editorial board'
  35. Web site: Awards archive . . 13 April 2012.
  36. Web site: Awards . September 1997 . . 13 April 2012.
  37. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20151117001613/https://royalsociety.org/people/harshad-bhadeshia-11079/. 17 November 2015. Sir Harshad Bhadeshia FREng FRS. Royal Society. London. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
  38. Web site: List of Fellows . . 13 April 2012 . 5 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120305171231/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about/fellowship/fellowslist.htm?Page=6&Size=20 . dead .
  39. https://www.iisc.ac.in/about/endowed-chairs/endowed-visiting-chairs/ Aditya Birla Chair
  40. Web site: Fellowship . . 13 April 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120402202343/http://www.inae.org/fellows_section_6-10.htm . 2 April 2012 .
  41. Web site: Fellow of the American Welding Society . 30 January 2020.
  42. Web site: Honorary Member of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan . 27 January 2017.
  43. Web site: Honorary Fellowship of The Welding Institute, U.K. . 30 January 2020.
  44. Web site: Adolf Martens Award . 26 August 2017 . 2 January 2017 . 30 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170830010851/https://www.bainite-awt.de/conference-wAssets/Broschueren/AWT-Bainite-A4-brochure-25-4-2017-E-Mail.pdf . dead .
  45. Web site: Membre d'Honneur del la SF2M . 16 November 2017 . 2 October 2017.
  46. Web site: Foreign Fellows Elected for the year 2018 . . 4 March 2019 . 6 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043144/http://www.nasi.org.in/Fellows%20%26%20Foreign%20Fellows%20Elected%20for%20the%20year%202018.pdf . dead .
  47. Web site: Lee Hsun Lecture Award 2019 . . 4 April 2019 . 27 April 2019.
  48. Henry Clifton Sorby Award 2022 . Practical Metallography . . 20 September 2022. 59 . 3 . 175 . 10.1515/pm-2022-0019 . 247485307 . free .

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