Professor Dr. Bruno Buchmayer in his office at the University of Leoben
Special samples for formability tests
The latest Gleeble machine
The city of Leoben is quite spacious and beautiful. The University itself is about 3000 strong and the city has a population of just 25,000
The mushroom building
The mushroom building
Nice buildings
This particular building was made in the 17th century
A theatre
Metallurgy rules
This used to be a monastery, followed by a prison, and now a restaurant and shopping centre.
A meeting of the Austrian Society for Metallurgy
Award presentation cermonies and a nice dinner
The after-dinner speech was on the Big Bang, and how metals came about
The dark age of the Universe was 3000 years after the Big Bang, when there was only hydrogen and helium in abundance, so no stars to light the Universe. The heavier elements beyond lithium formed in the stars. The hot earth when it formed had most of its metals in the core, but heavy bombardment by meteors brought some of these to the surface.
Harry's hotel
The view from the hotel
The workshop begins
A beautiful, sunny day
Harald Leitner and the LEAP atom probe
An Oxford Instruments atom probe
A high-temperature pin-on-disc abrasive wear machine
Wear tracks apparent on these samples
Peter Schumacher and his wonderful casting facilities. Peter Did his Ph.D. in Cambridge Unviersity with Lindsay Greer
X-ray tomography
A rotating-bending fatigue testing machine
A rotating-bending fatigue testing machine
The Rittinger Institute where Professor Buchmayer organised the workshop
An old iron-making furnace
Water wheel used to drive a forge
Leoben and its surroundsing are breathtakingly beautiful
The turbulence created by placing logs in the lake introduces oxygen for the fish
A quiet, serene place for utter relaxation
The iron mountain, where ore has been mined for centuries and still continues to be productive
The iron mountain, where ore has been mined for centuries and still continues to be productive
The iron mountain
The iron mountain
This is where steel was made, starting about 1810. This is one of the locomotives which brought the ore from the iron mountain to this location
This is where the ore was preheated
We are now inside the blast furnace
This is the stretcher which was used to carry injured workers
This is the balcony designed to allow the workers to grab some fresh air
Water wheel
The water wheel which drives the bellows
These are bellows driven by the water wheel, to feed the tuyeres
Here the furnce was tapped
.. to form a layer of iron on the ground, which was then broken into bits and sent for forging
Another set of bellows
An anvil
A modern, Voest Alpine blast furnace
Blast furnace
