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Refereed papers in international journals:

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1. A review of the effect of cold-work on the resistance to sulphide stress cracking, T. Sourmail Corrosion 2006, paper 07104
   
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2. New approach for the bainite start temperature calculation in steels, C Garcia-Mateo, T. Sourmail, F. G. Caballero, C. Capdevilla and C. Garcia de Andres Mater. Sci. Techn., 2005:21, p934-940
   
3. Near equiatomic FeCo alloys: constitution, mechanical and magnetic properties, T. Sourmail, Prog. Mater. Sci., 2005:50, p816-880
   
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4. Comments on `Character of transformations in Fe-Co system', T. Sourmail, Scripta Mater., 2005:52, p1347-1351
   
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5. Critical assessment of models for predicting the Ms temperature of steels, T. Sourmail and C. Garcia-Mateo Comp. Mater. Sci., 2005:34, p323-334
   
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6. A model for predicting the Ms temperatures of steels, T. Sourmail and C. Garcia-Mateo Comp. Mater. Sci., 2005:34,p213-218
   
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7. Mechanical property prediction of commercially pure titanium welds with artificial neural network, Y. H. Wei, H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia and T. Sourmail J. Mater. Sci. Techn., 2005:21, p403-407
   
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8. Modeling mechanical properties of GTAW welds of commercial titanium alloys with artificial neural network, Y. H. Wei, H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia and T. Sourmail T. Nonferr. Metal. Soc., 2005:15, p70-74
   
9. Microstructural evolution of two variants of NF709 during ageing at 1023 and 1073 K, T. Sourmail and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia Metall. Mater. Trans. A, 2005:36A, p23-34
   
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10. Design of new Fe-9CrWV reduced-activation martensitic steels for creep properties at 650 C, Y. de Carlan, M. Murugananth, T. Sourmail and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia J. Nucl. Mater., 2004:329-333, p238-242
    
11. Evolution of strength and coercivity during annealing of FeCo based alloys, T. Sourmail, Scripta Mater., 2004:51, p589-591.
    
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12. Formation of chromium borides in quenched modified 310 austenitic stainless steel, T. Sourmail, T. Okuda and J. E. Taylor, Scripta Mater., 2004:50, p1271-1276.
    
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13. Stability of retained austenite in TRIP-assisted steels, M. Sherif, C. Garcia-Mateo, T. Sourmail and H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia,Mater. Sci. Techn., 2004:20, p319--322.
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14. Design of creep-resistant steels: success and failure of models, H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia and T. Sourmail, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2003:44, p299-314.
    
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15. Modelling simultaneous precipitation reactions in austenitic stainless steels, T. Sourmail and H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia, CALPHAD, 2003:27, p169-175.
    
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16. Sensitisation and Evolution of Chromium-depleted Zones in Fe-Cr-Ni-C systems, T. Sourmail, C.H. Too, H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia, ISIJ Int., 2003:11, p1814-1820.
    
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17. A Neural Network Model of the Creep Strength of Austenitic Stainless Steels, T. Sourmail, H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia and D.J.C. MacKay Mat. Sci. Tech. 2002:18-6 p655-663
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18. Design of a creep-resistant nickel-base superalloy for power-plant applications. Part III: Experimental results, F. Tancret, T. Sourmail, M.A. Yescas, R.W. Evans, C. McAleese, L. Singh, T. Smeeton and H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia, Mat. Sci. Tech., Vol. 19 (2003)297-302.
    
19. Review: Precipitation in Creep-Resistant Austenitic Stainless Steels, T. Sourmail, Mat.Sci.Tech. 2001: 17-1 p1-14
    This was a commended entry of the 1999 IoM Litterature Survey competition.
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PhD thesis

The full thing.

• Chapter 1: Preface, acknowledgments, toc, introduction.
• Chapter 2: Precipitates in creep-resistant austenitic stainless steels. This is published above as Review: Precipitation in Creep-Resistant Austenitic Stainless Steels.
• Chapter 3: Modelling precipitation reactions in steels.
• Chapter 4: The growth rate of precipitates.
• Chapter 5: Capillarity in multicomponent systems. chapter 3 and 5 are combined in paper to appear in CALPHAD.
• Chapter 6: Overall transformation kinetics.
• Chapter 7: Experimental procedures.
• Chapter 8: Precipitation behaviour of NF709 and NF709R under static ageing at 750 ^oC and 800 ^oC. This is published above as Microstructural evolution of two variants of NF709 during ageing at 1023 and 1073 K, Mater. Metall. Trans. A
• Chapter 9: Modelling the creep rupture life of austenitic stainless steels. This is published above as A Neural Network Model of the Creep Strength of Austenitic Stainless Steels.
• Chapter 10: Summary and future work.

Softwares and data published on MAP:

• MAP_STEEL_CREEP_LIFE_AUSTENITIC, a neural network model for the creep life of austenitic stainless steels.
• MAP_STEEL_CREEP_STRENGTH_AUSTENITIC, a neural network model for the creep strength of austenitic stainless steels.
• MAP_DATA_ADI_KINETIC, dilatometric data for the bainite formation in austempered ductile iron.

Presentations

• Presentations to China Steel Corp.: computer modelling of diffusion controlled, simultaneous phase transformations.
  8 presentations: the CALPHAD method (1), modelling nucleation (2), estimating the growth rate (3), multicomponent capillarity (3b), overall kinetics (4), examples(5). Adaptation to non-uniform bulk compositions: multicomponent diffusion(6), the example of sentitisation(7).
• Presentations to China Steel Corp.: neural network modelling of complex properties.
  5 presentations: overview of neural networks (1), Bayesian probabilities (2), linear regression in bayesian framework (3), neural networks in bayesian framework (4), examples (5).
• Presentation for NPL users meeting, november 2002.
• Group seminar presentation on PhD project.

Some stuff for the Web:

• A translation in french of "The Bainite Reaction in Steels".
• A simple tutorial for MT-DATA.
• A tutorial for a software I've written, called Model Manager.
• MAP online, MAP online