University of Cambridge

Apparao Chintha wins two awards

#In a competition at the University of Cambridge, Apparao Chintha best poster award.

The "highly commended" video shown below is by Apparao Chintha of the University of Cambridge. The sample is a special steel designed to be extremely strong and tough. The damage that is revealed is due to the steel being subjected to impact and abrasion by granite, in an impact-tumbler test. The impacts are normal to the plane of observation. It is obtained using a scanning electron microscope which has a gallium ion-beam, so after each observation of the impact surface, 50 nm are machined off and a new observation surface generated.

More details of the impact-tumbler test







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Apparao taking in the magnitude of his victory, using the English method of a cup of tea.
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The evidence.
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The prizes


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