SKF-Cambridge University Workshop, 4th of November 2009

The purpose of this workshop was to help Cambridge University appreciate details about bearing steels and associated technologies. There was an introducion to bearing steels by Aidan Kerrigan, steel production technologies by John Beswick, heat-treatment technologies by Marco Burtchen, industrial bearings steels and heat-treatment by Ingemar Strandell, automotive bearing steels and heat-treatment by Johann Volkmuth and Lex Molennaar, superbainite by Harry Bhadeshia and irreversible thermodynamics by Pedro Rivera.



Trinity College


St John's College, where the meeting was held


St John's College, where the meeting was held


Dirac room in the Fisher building


Lunch


Huang talking to Lex Molennaar


Balnka, talking to Johann Volkmuth


Rachel Hobson and John Beswick


Brian, who videoed all the talks


Andrew Barrow, Aidan Kerrigan, Marco Burtchen and Pedro Rivera


Brina, Pedro and Harry in the Dirac room




Huang and Chris Amey, who is the new technician for the SKF/Cambridge Steel Technology Centre




Rachel met Terry Frost (the artist) when she was 17








Pedro, Ingemar Strandell and the team




Aidan, John and Lex














The dinner: Rachel Hobson and Chris Amey could not attend.






Lex and Andy studying the engineering of the ancient window-opening system


A full moon arranged for the occasion


Synchrotron Mathematical Models Stainless welds Nuclear Performance
Residual stress Fine grains Hexagonal Hot-strength ab initio
δ-TRIP Metallography Texture review Topology Microalloyed

CML Home Materials Algorithms