Singapore airport.
Singapore airport.
Singapore airport.
Welcome at Singapore airport.
Singapore airport.
Singapore airport.
Singapore airport.
Singapore airport.
Singapore airport. Flight to Sydney.
Singapore airport. Flight to Sydney.
Sydney Airport at night.
The Old Adelaide Inn.
The Old Adelaide Inn.
The Mac in Adelaide.
The night sky just outside the laboratory. Notice the "kite" formation.
Lathabai, Vinay, Joe, John, Delphine, Alka, and delicious food!
Lathabai, Harry, Joe, John, Delphine, Alka
Part of Adelaide adjacent to the Old Adelaide Inn.
Its May, the onset of winter, the leaves changing colour as they prepare to fall.
The keyhole TIG welding process and Laurie Jarvis, the inventor. The tube is made out of stainless steel.
Ken Barton setting up the weld.
Just before the commencement of welding.
The torch used to convey some 1000 Amps of current during the keyhole TIG process.
The demonstration weld completed.
Bernie Bednarz (did not attend my lecture in order to dream about golf). Apparently has a golf club whose steel shaft is made by Nippon Steel, weighing in at just 85 g. Yawn............
Wollongong, the view from the top of an escarpment, with the Pacific Ocean in view.
Wollongong, the view from the top of an escarpment, with the Pacific Ocean in view.
Wollongong, the view from the top of an escarpment.
Druce Dunne
Some of the cargo ships in the background convey ore etc to the steel plant.
At the Dunne family home. Eucalyptus tree on the left.
The view from the front garden.
A Mexican two-headed parrot of legend.
These flowers are frequented by brightly coloured parakeets who feed on the nectar.
The Dunne family garden.
The Dunne family garden.
The Dunne family garden.
The Dunne family garden.
Blowhole - the impact of waves on the other side of this rock periodically causes a fountain of water to spurt upwards.
Rock formation resembling the close-packing of hexagonal prisms, rather like the columnar grains found in weld deposits.
Elisabeth and Druce Dunne.
The six-mile beach.
Elisabeth and Druce Dunne.
Elisabeth and Druce Dunne.
Elisabeth and Druce Dunne.
Bluescope Steel plant on the beach.
The computer in Wollongong University.
Parakeets.
Graham Fairbank (Wollongong and Cambridge Universities) acknowledged as the Metallurgical Society President, 1995-1996.
David Nolan and Rian Holdstock showing their newly developed method for examining hydrogen effects in restrained welds.
The plasma in a FADS (focussed arc deposition system) plant.
Shao Wei Huang and the FADS (focussed arc deposition system) plant.
Waiting to hear about Hard Bainite. Les Moore (front), Brian Monaghan, Jim Williams, Tara Chandra and Frank Barbaro.
Daniel (left), Mark Reid and Dominic Phelan, with the confocal microscope.
The confocal microscope has a high intensity laser light source. This one has a high temperature chamber which is extremely clean.
Mark, Rian Dippenar (ex-Cambridge) and Dominic
The view at night from my hotel window in Wollongong.
The view at night from my hotel window in Wollongong.
The view at night from my hotel window in Wollongong.
The view at night from my hotel window in Wollongong.
The view, early morning, from my hotel window in Wollongong.
The view, early morning, from my hotel window in Wollongong.
Audience for lecture questioning the need for experiments in the development of welding alloys. Conference room in Bluescope Steel.
Audience for lecture questioning the need for experiments in the development of welding alloys.
The wall covering here is made from coated steel.
The wall covering here is made from coated steel.
The wall covering here is made from coated steel.
A steel methane tank which caught fire and collapsed, without damaging any of the surrounding storage tanks.
A steel methane tank which caught fire and collapsed, without damaging any of the surrounding storage tanks.
The surrounding tanks were untouched.
The surrounding tanks were untouched.
CSIRO technology show, Adelaide.
John and Rick (acoustics research).
John and the first Australian computer to experience the Sourmail net. This is at about 1 a.m. at the CSIRO laboratory in Woodville.
Match between Port Adelaide ("Power") and Richmond (from Melbourne). John Francis in foreground.
Tony Francis
Amazing illuminations!
Path towards the gates of the grounds.
Inside the stadium.
Players warming up.
Family atmosphere in the stadium.
The Power team-mascot.
Richmond team warming session.
About 25,700 spectators (around a 1000 Richmond supporters).
Goal referee (orange T-shirt).
Crist (Finance Officer, CSIRO), his brother and a colleague standing and waving.
The gang! Chris: "they are being hammered", refering to the Richmond score.
John and his father, Tony.
Tony and Harry (with the Port Adelaide colours)
During half-time, two teams of youngsters played Australian rules football.
During half-time, two teams of youngsters played Australian rules football.
John (Jan) and Bernie. Arrived late at bunker 118 because Bernie had a not so good day at golf - his sense of direction was out by 180 degrees.
Marco, Latha, Latha's mum, Delphine, Joe
Marco, Latha, Latha's mum, Delphine
Vinay, Enza, Marco
John, Vinay
The board.
The car.
The P91 welded pipes, Vortek and Samsia
The P91 welded pipes, 51 mm thick.
The P91 pipes assembled for welding. The preheating blankets in position.
The P91 pipes assembled for welding. The preheating blankets in position.
The P91 pipes assembled for welding. The preheating blankets in position.
The narrow gap welding torch developed at CSIRO Woodville.
Laser cladding in progress.
The hybrid laser/plasma welding equipment.
The gang at the 'Passage to India'