My Hobbies

WEB Publishing and Surfing

My travel in the web began on March 1998, I was in Denver (Colorado),I liked the way I met my friends and new people in this world (though it would never replace the live meetings!!). I then decided to make my own home page to make people know my professional background and ...much more.

 For metallurgists I suggest to visit a Web site I really liked on Martensites. This Web site has been done at the Cornell University by Prof.James Sethna. Go there and click on Martensite. I like it, I'm sure you'll do: http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/sethna/

For metallographers like me who like the beauty of micrographs and all what they suggest to our imagination. Or for newcomers who want to learn things about metallography, try a link with http://www.metallography.com

 There are very interesting Web pages at geocities in my neighborhood (ResearchTriangle) visit some of them:

http://geocities.datacellar.net/ResearchTriangle

Archeaometallurgy

Combining hobbies and professional skills is the way to do the best. It is so exciting for me to work on metallic artifacts found by archeaologues in Roman, Punic or Arabic ancient sites in Tunisia.

I have worked first on ancient knives found in a Roman tomb. I tried to find out how these knives have been processed (heat and mechanical treatments) and their main use (hunting, wood works, fighting).

The other artifacts I have worked on were big nails, maybe used for construction. The internal microstructure of these pieces was strange in our contemporary point of view. Several big inclusions of silica have been found in a ferritic matrix. The microstructure has suggested how these nails have been processed. See the report (in French),it is a MegaFile (too much photos?), be patient!

 The Historical Metallurgy Society provides to whom is interested by archaeometallurgy, informations and a good review:http://info.ox.ac.uk/~salter/hms/index.html

The department of ArchaeologicalSciences at the University of Bradford (UK) has an "Ancient Metallurgy Research Group" where we can find interesting research projects in this field: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/depart/resgrp/amrg/amrginfo.html

To have interesting contacts with the archaeometallurgists, join the "E-mail discussion group Arch-metals": http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists-a-e/arch-metals/

Need to learn about ancient civilizations in North America and the discovery of metals and metallurgy? check this": http://www.iwaynet.net/~wdc/

If you're interested in web publishing or archeao-metallurgy, email me at nihadbs@sympatico.ca

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