This conference was held in honour of Professor Ulrich Dilthey's retirement after many decades of leadership in the field of welding.
Air Berlin |
Dusseldorf Airport |
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Dusseldorf Central Railway Station |
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Can't see this getting around a corner in Cambridge - but then again, it is German engineering and anything is possible |
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Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen |
Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen |
Professor Ulrich Dilthey - this meeting is to clebrate his achievments |
Professor Ulrich Dilthey - this meeting is to clebrate his achievments |
An inspiring lecture by Dr Fiegel of Daimler. Really makes one want to buy properly engineered cars (German cars). He showed a ballet of laser-carrying robots. |
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engine valves (hardfaced) |
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Electron beam welder for minature components |
Welding in action |
Welding in action |
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Some nice students and a visiting scientist, working with Professor Ulrich Dilthey at Aachen University. |
Vitali Pavlik, an old friend, expert on phase field modelling and generous with his movies |
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Lunch |
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Harry |
Vitaly Pavlik |
Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen |
Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen |
Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen |
Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen |
Welding torches |
Welding torches |
Stainless steel double helix |
Stainless steel double helix |
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Minature component electron beam welded |
The exhibition |
Dr Ing. J. Pieschel and Professor Horst Cerjak |
Dr Wolfgang Jansen, with whom we collaborated during the days of Chris Downs and Roger Conroy in the welding of steam turbines. |
Professor Wolfgang Bleck, Aachen University, being congratulated after his lecture |
Professor Konstantin Yushchenko, Paton Electric Welding Institute, Ukraine |
with Professor Konstantin Yushchenko, Paton Electric Welding Institute, Ukraine |
This place has taste. |
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The Prime Minister (Mr Singh) of India and The Chancellor of Germany (Mrs Merkel) |
Drs Pavlik and Beck |
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Professor Horst Cerjak |
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The restaurant that Professor Bleck took Harry to, was created in the 19th century by a man called Reuters, who founded the now famous Reuters news agency. His first service operated via pidgeons between Brussels and Aachen, and he then moved to London. |
At the Reuters restaurant. |
One of the gates to Aachen |
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At the Institute for Ferrous Research in RWTH Aachen. Huge tensile samples. |
The machine used for the large tensile samples (could not get the whole machine into the picture. |
The foundary. |