Fictional Materials: Transparant Aluminium

Transparent aluminium is used in ‘the Star Trek Universe’ to make exterior windows of star ships. This material features strongly in the plot of the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The crew of the enterprise has gone back in time to bring back a pair of whales to communicate with an alien probe. [...]

Shear Relief

I’m very happy that my paper was accepted for publication in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. It took a long time from performing the experiment to presenting the results, mainly because I needed to repeat the analysis which was something I wasn’t able to make time for until I had to submit the thesis. In [...]

David Mackay on Latex

David MacKay has been interviewed by TUG (Tex Users Group), in interview dated to February 2009. Check it out if you are a fan of David or LaTeX. David Says; LaTeX is the typesetting program to use in scientific publishing. David MacKay’s website has some LaTeX stuff. Looks like David MacKay FRS also has a [...]

Niobium and Columbium

Columbium is an alternative name for Niobium. In steels niobium is a common microalloying element, that is added in small which then have a large influence on the resulting mechanical properties. Strong carbide formers can be used for microalloying to form small precipitates, that is vanadium, niobium, titanium, often used in combination. These elements combine [...]

Making Podcasts

More podcasts this weekend… Crystallographic texture and intervening transformations Stress of Strain affected martensitic transformation Quantitative Metallography of Deformed grains Steels for Fusion