Acta Journals Meeting in Dublin

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
	Back in 1014, the castle was associated with the defeat of the vikings
	Greg Olson, Northwestern University Chicago on the right
	Dublin has many Georgian style houses.
	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
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
	Another form of iron man
	Here Greg is listening to the procedure for drinking Guiness
These days the beams would be rolled into shape	Professor Ted Massalski
Some of the advertisements for Guiness
The Acta journals editors and governors of Acta Inc.	These photographs courtesy of Professor Wilfred Kurz