preface adventures in the physical metallurgy of steels（前言在钢的物理冶金学）.pdfVIP

Preface Adventures in the physical metallurgy of steels H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, UK, email hkdb@cam.ac.uk. The automotive industry is famous for introducing concept-cars that set the vision for the future. The Cambridge Adventures, held on 23–25 July 2013, had the goal of resetting the meaning of conferences, and to provide a template for meetings of the future. Attendance at ‘Adventures in the physical metallurgy of steels’ (APMS) was therefore limited to 100 people on the basis of risk, novelty and excitement in their research. There were no invited lectures. The number of presentations was limited to 25, without parallel sessions. There was no theme to address other than the broad one defined by the title, so each talk was a breath of fresh air. There were no registration fees, the meeting was broadcast live on the internet for those not attending to watch free-of-charge and to participate live in the discussions irrespective of geographical location. All presentations were professionally recorded and are available to view on YouTube. And now, here are the proceedings, made freely accessible for a number of years. This special issue of MST deals with the publication phase of the meeting, with each paper having been independently reviewed according to the standard MST procedures. An intriguing subject is that of the electrical modification of steels, by using short but intense electrical pulses to stimulate changes in the microscopic structure. The Russians have a reputation in metallurgy of doing things that are outside of the box; the earliest report on the effect of electrical pulses seems to be by Troitskii from the Russian Academy of Sciences,1 who investigated the influence