A wonderful visit to Wuhan in China, organised by Professor Wu Kaiming (PT Group member).
Steel watch worth 335,000 euros. This is from a magazine I read when flying from Pusan to Shanghai |
Steel watch worth 335,000 euros. This is from a magazine I read when flying from Pusan to Shanghai |
More expensive than an equivalent gold watch |
This is where the watches were exhibited |
Steel at Shanghai airport |
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Waiting for a bus to the domestic terminal for the flight from Shanghai to Wuhan |
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Professor Wu Kaiming waiting in the hotel |
Joined by Rongshan Qin at the WuGang Hotel |
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The hotel was built originally to house German engineers who helped install equipment in the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company |
This is a mural in the hotel |
The Headquarters of the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company (WISCO) |
Wuhan is a beautiful city with enormous lakes, the Yangtze river and a lot of green |
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It was a slightly rainy day but incredibly refreshing |
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This was a vegetarian restaurant in Wuhan |
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Professor Yanhong Wei by coincidence noticed that I was visiting Wuhan, and travelled 700 km to meet. She is a wonderful person |
Yanhong is to the left of Harry |
Large quantities of food |
Professor Kathy Xie is from the International Office of WOSTECH (Wuhan University of Science and Technology) |
We dressed up for the next day to give talks |
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Beautiful iron railings |
Wuhan University of Science and Technology |
Wuhan University of Science and Technology |
Wuhan University of Science and Technology |
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Very nice campus |
The President of the University, Professor Dr Ing Jianyi Kang is on Harry's right |
Rongshan was made a Guest Professor |
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Bicycles |
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To the lecture room |
Advertisement of the lecture |
The University is about 110 years old |
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The bronze ornament was presented to mark that anniversary |
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Some of the audience |
Some of the audience |
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Professor Wu Kaiming introduces the speaker |
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Lot of trees on the campus |
With Professor Wu Kaiming's team |
With Professor Wu Kaiming's team |
It would no be possible to make steel without these ceramics |
This is a ceramic plug to stop the flow of steel |
Alumina and carbon |
A visit to the State Key Ceramics Laboratory. This is a gate for pouring steel |
Magnesium oxide and carbon |
Many people know that steelmaking involves blowing gas from the bottom of the ladle, through molten steel |
The lower part is a cross section. The gas enters through thin slits, then through the porous ceramic and bubbles into the steel |
The oter side of the gate |
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Another composite ceramic |
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This is insulating ceramic |
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Different kind of insulating ceramic |
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Shows the development of earing in deep-drawn steel due to anisotropic properties |
The anisotropy is a consequence of crystallographic texture |
This furnace can operate at a pressure of ten atmospheres |
Can be used, for example, to make high-nitrogen steel |
A very clever rotating viscometer |
.... to measure the properties of molten slag |
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This is where we had lunch |
A facility within the University |
The vegetarian option |
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Advertisements for the lectures |
A relatively new museum built by the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company |
These are steel carpets which extend to inside the building |
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Chairman Mao to celebrate the inauguration of WISCO |
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Chairman Mao explained that there are two things important in life, food, and steel |
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Model of WISCO |
Ancient ironmaking |
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The body in white |
The body in white |
The body in white |
Diameters of pipes made by WISCO |
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The body in white |
Model of Birds Nest Olympic Stadium, partly made using WISCO steel |
Auditorium made using steel |
Suspension bridge |
Component for the Three Gourges Dam |
Liquified petroleum gas |
At the WISCO Research Centre |
Impressive building |
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The audience |
Rongshan translated my talk |
Rongshan then gave an electrifying lecture |
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The evening meal with the Vice President of the Wuhan University of Science and Technology |
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Harry was elected "Consulting Professor" |
Rongshan was elected "Guest Professor"
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The end of the beginning |