Pipeline workshop and abrasion tests

Yan Pei and Harry are at the Linepipe workshop organised in Moscow by CBMM of Brazil. Harry took the opportunity for discussions and experiments at MiSIS (Moscow Institute for Iron and Steel).

Russian currency
	Abrasive wear test sample
Tim O'Connor, Olga Ushkanova and Sergey Kaloshkin, at MiSIS, Moscow	Tim is a humanities Professor, and now a metallurgist, handling an important sample of steel
Here Tim, who is the Vice Rector of MiSIS, kindly helps to clear our lunch utensils	Abrasive wear test. The pin has a 52100 ball at the end, and the disc is the test sample
The equipment for the abrasion test, at MiSIS in Moscow	The disc in position
	The abrasion after the test
Moscow in early April, like the U.K., had significant snow
	Vodka
	The workshop
There was simultaneous translation available
Yan Pei on the podium, waiting for her turn to give the lecture	Yan Pei in action
This is the russian translation of her TTT diagram	Phil Kirkwood indulging in lunch
Pipe laying ship