James Keith Brimacombe
James. Keith Brimacombe-Reflections and Perspectives is both a tribute to a remarkable man and a valu
able resource for materials scientists and engineers. A collection of Professor Brimacombe's award-winning research papers and correspondence, this book presents more than twenty years of contributions to the field of metallurgical process engineering.
J. Keith Brimacombe-Reflections and Perspectives includes twelve of Brimacombe's award-winning papers including:
•1997 Canadian Gold Medal Paper The Nature and Nurture of Research
•1997 ISS PTD John Chipman Award Thermomechanical History of Steel Strip During Hot Rolling—A Comparison of Conventional Cold-Charge Rolling
and Hot-Direct Rolling of Thin Slabs
•1993 ISS Howe Memorial Lecture Empowerment with Knowledge Toward the Intelligent Mould for the Continuing Casting of Steel Billets •1980 ISS Robert W. Hunt Award Formation of Longitudinal, Midface Cracks in Continuously-Cast Slabs
TABLE OF CONTENTS
J. K. Brimacombe Prize [p. 1]
Biography [pp. 2-4]
Lifes is No Brief Candle [p. 5]
TMS President's Pages [pp. 6-17]
ISS President's Pages [pp. 18-29]
1997 Canadian Gold Medal Paper
The Nature and Nurture of Research [pp.30 -33] J. K. Brimacombe
1997 ISS PTD John Chipman Award
Thermomechanical History of Steel Strip During Hot Rolling--A Comparison of Conventional Cold-Charge Rolling and Hot-Direct Rolling of Thin Slabs [pp.34 -50]  C. A. Muojekwu, D.. Jin, I.V. Samarasekera and J. K. Brimacombe
1997 ISS MWSP Meritorious Award
The Application of Microstructural Engineering to the Hot Rolling of Steel [pp.51 -65] I.V. Samaraseker
a, D.Q. Jin, and J. K. Brimacombe
1993 ISS Howe Memorial Lecture
Empowerment with Knowledge Toward the Intelligent Mould for the Continuous Casting of Steel Billets [pp.66 -90] J. K. Brimacombe
1993 ISS Robert W. Hunt Awardreactor debug mode is enabled
Mold Behavior and Its Influence on Quality in the Continuous Casting of Steel Slaps: Part 1. Industrial Trials, Mold Temperature Measurements, and Mathematical Modeling [pp.91 -104] R. B. Mahapatra, J. K. Brimacombe, I. V. Samarasekera, N. Walker, E.A. Patterson and J. D. Young
1987 ISS Steelmaking Charles H. Herty Jr. Award
Optimum Design and Operation of Moulds for the Continuous Casting of Steel Billets [pp.105 -119] J. K. Brimacombe, I.V. Samarasekera, and R. Bommaraju
1985 ISS MWSP Mertorious Award
Prediction of the Structure and Mechanical Properties of Control-Cooled Eutectoid Steel Rods [pp.120 -131] J. Iyer, J. K. Brimacombe, and E.B. Hawbolt
The Formation of Oscillation Marks in the Continuous Casting of Steel Slabs [pp.132-168]  E. Takeuchi and J. K. Brimacombe
1980 ISS Robert W. Hunt Award
Formation of Longitudinal, Midface Cracks in Continuously-Cast Slabs [pp.169 -182]  J. K. Brimacombe, F. Weinberg, and E.B. Hawbolt
1977 ISS PTD John Chipman Award
Mathematical Model of the SL/RN Direct Reduction Process [pp.183 -194]
V. Venkateswaran and J. K. Brimacombe
1974 ISS Steelmaking Charles H. Herty Jr. Award
The Liquid Pool Geometry and Cast Structure in Continuously Cast Blooms and Beam Blanks at the Algoma Steel Corporation [pp.195 -228] J. E. Lait, J. K. Brimacombe, F. Weinberg, and F. C. Muttitt
Plenary Lecture--The Howard Worner International Symposium on Injection in
Pyrometallurgy
Current and Future Challenges in Injection Metallurgy [pp.229 -233]
I.V. Samarasekera, D.Q. Jin, and J. K. Brimacombe
Keynote Paper--Savard/Lee International Symposium on Bath Smelting Savard and Lee--Transforming the Metallurgical Landscape [pp.234 -259]
P. J. Mackey and J. K. Brimacombe
Invited Paper
H.H. Kellogg International Symposium--Quantitative Description of Metal
Extraction Processes
The Rotary Kiln: Toward a New Understanding of an Old Reactor [pp.260 -287] J. K. Brimacombe
Keynote Paper--International Symposium on Materials Processing in the
Computer Age
Materials Processing in the Computer Age: Models, Measurements and Validation [pp.288 -305] J. K. Brimacombe
Editor's Acknowledgement [p. 306]
Tribute to J. Keith Brimacombe [pp.307 -314] I. V. Samarasekera
Photographic History [pp.315 -322]
James Keith Brimacombe
1943- 1997
Sadly, James Keith Brimacombe served only three months of his term as the first President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Foundation for Innovation. He succumbed to a massive heart attack and died on December 16, 1997 in Vancouver at the age of 54. He was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia on December 7, 1943, was raised in Alberta and received his undergraduate education at the University of British Columbia (UBC) obtaining a B.A.Sc.(Hons.) in 1966. With the support of a Commo
nwealth Fellowship, he travelled to England and studied under F.D. Richardson, FRS, at Imperial College of Science and Technology in the University of London where he received a Ph.D. in 1970. Subsequently, he was awarded the D.Sc. (Eng.) in 1986 by the University of London and an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering degree in 1994 by the Colorado School of Mines. He returned to UBC in 1970 to establish courses and a research program in metallurgical process engineering. He remained at UBC achieving the rank of Professor in 1979, Stelco Professor of Process Metallurgy in 1980, Stelco/NSERC Professor in 1985 and the Alcan Chair in 1992. One of the finest metallurgical engineers on the world stage in the 20th Century, Dr. Brimacombe pioneered the application of mathematical models and industrial and laboratory measurements to shed light on complex metallurgical processes spanning both the ferrous and non-ferrous industries during his twenty-seven year career at UBC. For his ground-breaking research he earned the reputation of being one of the most innovative intellectual giants in the field for which he earned global recognition. Keith Brimacombe stood out. His passion for research was palpable, and his obvious excitement about his work was infectious. Keith believed passionately that the greatest breakthroughs would result from interdisciplinary efforts—an idea which was not yet fashionable in academia. Keith Brimacombe’s research ideas were always bold and ambitious. He asked new questions and developed research methodologies that few others had undertaken. He and his students made ingenious and difficult measurements on operating processes under production conditions. He complemented
these efforts with elegant laboratory measurements and mathematical models to make major strides in understanding, frequently radically altering previous conceptions of the phenomena under investigation. It was Keith’s innate curiosity and immense creativity that enabled him to ask the right questions in every endeavour he undertook. Consequently, during his tenure at UBC he built a large collaborative research group in metallurgical process engineering consisting of about seventy faculty, graduate students, research engineers and technicians. Much of the research was conducted in close collaboration with Canadian companies such as Stelco, Hatch Associates, Algoma Steel, Western Canada Steel, Sidbec-Dosco, Ivaco, Cominco, Noranda, Inco, Alcan, Domtar, Canadian Liquid Air and Liquid Carbonic. This body of research led to three hundred publications and nine patents as well as two books. In 1985, in
co-operation with faculty colleagues, he founded at UBC the Centre for Metallurgical Process Engineering and was named its Director. The excellence of his research was widely recognized as he received 20 awards for outstanding scholarly contributions as well as the British Columbia Science and Engineering Gold Medal (1985), the Ernest C. Manning Prize (1987), the Izaak Walton Killam Prize for Engineering (1990) by the Canada Council, the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (1979) and Canada’s highest scientific honour, the Canada Gold Medal in Science and Engineering (1997) from th
e Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada (1989). In 1998, Dr. Brimacombe was posthumously awarded the Benjamin Fairless Award by the American Institute for Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) and the Inco Medal by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) at their centennial celebration. Other distinctions included being elected a Distinguished Member of the Iron and Steel Society (ISS) in 1987, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1987, Fellow of CIM in 1988, Fellow of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) in 1989, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 1993, and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997. Also in 1989, he joined the Board of Directors of Sherritt Gordon Ltd. and received the Bell Canada Corporate-Higher Education Award. Among the lectures that he presented, the most notable were the
TMS Extractive Metallurgy Lecture (1989), the Howe Memorial Lecture of ISS (1993), and the ASM Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Lecture (1996). Beyond the quest to generate knowledge and train young people he was driven by the desire to see the fruits of his research implemented in industry. Not satisfied that publications in peer reviewed journals are an effective means of reaching out to the shop floor, where knowledge implementation creates wealth, he worked tirelessly at the university-industry interface to make the transfer of knowledge to industry a reality. A gifted speaker, he
was sought after by the global metallurgical industry and presented over fifty courses in companies in every continent. He gave unreservedly of his time to professional societies and became the only professional who was President of the three major societies serving materials engineers in North America; The Metallurgical Society of CIM in 94 The Royal So ciety of Can ada 1985, TMS in 1993 and ISS in 1995. He served on the Killam Research Fellowships Committee of the Canada Council and in 1989 he assumed responsibilities as Founding Chairman of the TMS Extraction and Processing Division. He was the Founding President of the TMS Foundation (1994-95). In 1995 he was Chairman of the Science Policy Committee of the Royal Society of Canada and was a member of the National Materials Advisory Board (U.S.A.). In 1996 he was elected Vice President of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada and was appointed to the Board of the United Engineering Trust. He served on the Board of Trustees of AIME since 1993; had he lived, he would have become President of AIME in 1999. Keith Brimacombe’s influence on students is now legendary. Harnessing their creativity and intellect together with his own was at the heart of his success as a teacher and a researcher. He invited students and their families to his home and took a genuine interest in their lives. His human kindness, and boundless generosity, set the tone for lifetime friendships with all his students. He believed in the power of ideas and the need to think deeply. With the advent of the revolution in computer technology, Keith grew frustrated as he noted that students spent more time typi
ng, surfing the internet, and playing with the latest software instead of thinking, even though Keith was a pioneer in the use of computers in the study of processes. He was a superb communicator,

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