The Tom Colclough Medal is presented in recognition of learned contribution to understanding microstructure, mechanical properties, fabricability or in-service performance, production or engineering in the iron and steel industry.
The award is judged by the Iron and Steel Group of the IOM3 and will be presented at the 2024 IOM3 Awards Day on Thursday 5 December.
Professor Palmiere said: “I am delighted to receive this distinguished award, continuing the rich history associated with The University of Sheffield in relation to the physical metallurgy of steels during thermomechanical processing.”
Professor Palmiere's research involves the microstructural evolution (utilising experimental techniques together with modelling techniques), and the subsequent development of mechanical properties during the thermomechanical processing of both ferrous and nonferrous alloys. In his research, a wide range of mechanical tests are employed, including laboratory simulations of industrial metalworking processes, e.g. rolling, forging, extrusion etc.
His internationally recognised work on the behaviour of Niobium Carbide (NbC) in steel earned him the Charles Hatchett Prize in 1995. He is particularly interested in developing a basic understanding between those softening (like recovery and recrystallisation) and strengthening (like solid solution and precipitation) mechanisms which occur either in austenite or in ferrite.
