In my office at the National Taiwan University. Liou Chang (left, PT Group Member, Cambridge), Sammy Chan (ex-Cambridge, now at the University of New South Wales) and Mr Chen who helped set up the projector.
Professor Chen, showing me his supercomputer made from a cluster of powerful personal computers
In the staff room
Laser welded automobile component.
Another laser welded component.
Another view of the laser welded component.
Laser clad spiral, made just for fun.
Laser clad turbine-blade edge from a power plant.
Laser clad turbine-blade edges from a power plant.
The laser welding head.
This is a separate laser welding head with variable focus position to allow either welding, cladding or heat treatment.
Harry and Professor G. Chen who heads the laser processing laboratory.
Extremely fine (8 micrometers diameter) stainless steel wire which is the subject of an NTU/Cambridge investigation.
This is the wire before it is made so fine.
In this state the wire is 190 micrometers in diameter
More of the fine wire. Almost looks like locks of hair.
At the airport in Kaohsiung, China Steel Corporation, South Taiwan.
At the airport in Kaohsiung, China Steel Corporation, South Taiwan.
At the airport in Kaohsiung, China Steel Corporation, South Taiwan.
Professor Jer Ren Yang (National Taiwan University, PT Group Member, Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge), in Kaohsiung
The building in the background is partly made using CORTEN, the self-colouring steel (China Steel Corporation).
The building in the background is partly made using CORTEN, the self-colouring steel (China Steel Corporation).
Inside China Steel.
Steel coils.
Slab reheating furnace in hot-rolling mill.
The hot rolling mill.
Artistic photograph to imply the motion of steel through the mill :-)
The roughing mill.
The section between the roughing and finer rolling mills, Notice the insulating curtain that can be lowered to maintain temperature.
The section between the roughing and finer rolling mills, Notice the insulating curtain that can be lowered to maintain temperature.
The various rolling stages.
Coiling.
The laminar flow cooling system.
The laminar flow cooling system.
The laminar flow cooling system. A view from the top.
Jye Long Lee (PT Group Member, now a scientist at China Steel and Director of Tintech Materials Technology Corporation Ltd) and Harry, The last time the met was in 1993.
Lee, Harry and Yang
Orchids in China Steel.
Vice President Dr K-H. Cheng (2nd from the right); he has dined in Darwin College a decade ago.
On the right, Ching-Yuan Huang, who did his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Yang.
The CORTEN building.
After the lectures, chaired by Dr Huang-Chuan Chen (2nd from the right).
After the lectures.
In the TMCP section. TMCP stands for thermomechanical controlled processing, used to produce another set of superb steel products.
In the TMCP section. TMCP stands for thermomechanical controlled processing, used to produce another set of superb steel products.
In the TMCP section. TMCP stands for thermomechanical controlled processing, used to produce another set of superb steel products.
The TMCP nerve centre.
Reflections.
Above the cooling system.
Above the cooling system.
Thick plates produced using this equipment.
The view from 'Splendor', the tallest building in Kaohsiung (85 floors) and second tallest in Taiwan.
The view from 'Splendor', the tallest building in Kaohsiung (85 floors) and second tallest in Taiwan.
The view from 'Splendor', the tallest building in Kaohsiung (85 floors) and second tallest in Taiwan.
The jazz band on the 43rd floor of the Splendor building.
The view at night from my hotel in Kaohsiung.
The view of the harbour from my hotel in Kaohsiung.
The view of the Splendor building from my hotel in Kaohsiung.
At the Metal Industries Research and Development Centre, Kaohsiung. In the middle is Professor Yang, flancked by two of his now-qualified Ph.D. students (Huang, China Steel) and Tsai (MIRDC). Tsai is holding the translation of 'Steels' which he did over a three year period.
MIRDC does microscopic processing of metals, including extrusion of wires, forming of minute components. This is a machine for forming.
Huang then took Professor Yang and Harry for a tour of the National Parks in the very South of Taiwan. The rock in the background is 'Maopitou' (cat's nose head).
'Maopitou' (cat's nose head).
The sail rock.
On the beach.
Sunset.
The Howard Hotel in the background.
The sharp rock.
At the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, with Professor Cheng-Kang Lee, the Director, Division of Academic Exchange and Cooperation.
At the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Powerful equipment to study the behaviour of large steel beams under combinations of loads.
At the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Powerful equipment to study the behaviour of large steel beams under combinations of loads.
Strain gauges.
A failed beam.
Another beam tested to failure.
Huge loading machine.
Further heavy loading equipment in the Department of Construction Engineering
Beams wirh reinforcement bars ready for encasement in concrete prior to testing.
Instrumented concrete-encased beam ready for testing. The small samples are compression test specimens for concrete.
Concrete testing machine.
One of Professor Young's machines for elevated temperature testing.
Research on self-cleaning glass coated with titatnium oxide (Young's laboratory).
Outside the Construction Engineering Department.
As in Cambridge.
Yangming Mountain National Park
Yangming Mountain National Park
Yangming Mountain National Park
Yangming Mountain National Park
Yangming Mountain National Park
Yangming Mountain National Park
Chinese year of the cock.
A giant clock which has been in position for 30 years.
Ferns on tree trunk.
Steam emerging from the ground - the source of hot springs.
Steam emerging from the ground - the source of hot springs.
The bridge in the background was the first made using steel from the China Steel Corporation.
The bridge in the background was the first made using steel from the China Steel Corporation.
The bridge in the background was the first made using steel from the China Steel Corporation.
The bridge in the background was the first made using steel from the China Steel Corporation.
Tamsui river, Taiwan
Lunch at 'Bay Watch', Tamsui river
Oxford University College in Taipei
Oxford University College in Taipei
The College was built by MacKay
Oxford University College in Taipei
The MacKay residence.
The MacKay residence.
A bridge over a harbour built at the estuary of River Tamsui.
A bridge over a harbour built at the estuary of River Tamsui. Steel in action.
A bridge over a harbour built at the estuary of River Tamsui.
Dr Tung-Cheng Chou, Director of SiliTech Corporation and PT Group member came to meet Harry at the Mangrove Researve.
The Mangrove Reserve
At the United Ship Design and Development Centre, Taipei. Dr Yih-Nan Chen, Chairman and President is in the middle. He visited Darwin College some 8 years ago. On the right is Jeng-Lih Hwang, the vice-president. Young and Yang on the left.
At the United Ship Design and Development Centre, Taipei. Dr Yih-Nan Chen, Chairman and President is in the middle. He visited Darwin College some 8 years ago. On the right is Jeng-Lih Hwang, the vice-president. Young and Yang on the left.
Professor L. C. Hsiung at the Imperial Museum in Taipei
Confucious
Captain Hao Yi Lou and Harry
Bamboo carving.
Bamboo carving.
Bamboo carving.
Bamboo carving
Bronze. wine container.
Bronze. wine container.
Method for making bronze objects.
Imprints.
Gold.
Jade collection.
6500 years old !
Yang and Harry at the main gate of the Taiwan National University
Patrick, Hanson and Yang
At the University symbol.
