A meeting of the Board of Governors of Acta Inc. and the Editors of Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia and Acta Biomaterialia, held in Dublin during July 2012.
Clontarf Castle, Dublin |
Steel sculpture at Clontarf Castle |
Armour |
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Back in 1014, the castle was associated with the defeat of the vikings |
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Greg Olson, Northwestern University Chicago on the right |
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Dublin has many Georgian style houses. |
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These Georgian style houses are characterised by windows which get smaller with height |
Having smaller windows towards the top makes the building appear bigger by providing a false perspective |
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The bicycle schem |
Long rows of Georgian houses |
At the Guiness exhibition |
The lady in the middle was the guide through the brewery exhibit |
These are steel girders, but the "I" beams are made by rivetting, rather than rolling |
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Another form of iron man |
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Here Greg is listening to the procedure for drinking Guiness |
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These days the beams would be rolled into shape |
Professor Ted Massalski |
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Some of the advertisements for Guiness |
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The Acta journals editors and governors of Acta Inc. |
These photographs courtesy of Professor Wilfred Kurz |
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