10th International Aachen Welding Conference, 22-25 October 2007

This conference was held in honour of Professor Ulrich Dilthey's retirement after many decades of leadership in the field of welding.

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Air Berlin
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Dusseldorf Airport
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Dusseldorf Central Railway Station
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Can't see this getting around a corner in Cambridge - but then again, it is German engineering and anything is possible
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Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen
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Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen
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Professor Ulrich Dilthey - this meeting is to clebrate his achievments
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Professor Ulrich Dilthey - this meeting is to clebrate his achievments
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An inspiring lecture by Dr Fiegel of Daimler. Really makes one want to buy properly engineered cars (German cars). He showed a ballet of laser-carrying robots.
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engine valves (hardfaced)
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Electron beam welder for minature components
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Welding in action
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Welding in action
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Some nice students and a visiting scientist, working with Professor Ulrich Dilthey at Aachen University.
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Vitali Pavlik, an old friend, expert on phase field modelling and generous with his movies
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Lunch
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Harry
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Vitaly Pavlik
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Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen
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Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen
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Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen
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Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen
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Welding torches
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Welding torches
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Stainless steel double helix
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Stainless steel double helix
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Minature component electron beam welded
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The exhibition
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Dr Ing. J. Pieschel and Professor Horst Cerjak
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Dr Wolfgang Jansen, with whom we collaborated during the days of Chris Downs and Roger Conroy in the welding of steam turbines.
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Professor Wolfgang Bleck, Aachen University, being congratulated after his lecture
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Professor Konstantin Yushchenko, Paton Electric Welding Institute, Ukraine
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with Professor Konstantin Yushchenko, Paton Electric Welding Institute, Ukraine
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This place has taste.
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The Prime Minister (Mr Singh) of India and The Chancellor of Germany (Mrs Merkel)
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Drs Pavlik and Beck
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Professor Horst Cerjak
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The restaurant that Professor Bleck took Harry to, was created in the 19th century by a man called Reuters, who founded the now famous Reuters news agency. His first service operated via pidgeons between Brussels and Aachen, and he then moved to London.
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At the Reuters restaurant.
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One of the gates to Aachen
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At the Institute for Ferrous Research in RWTH Aachen. Huge tensile samples.
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The machine used for the large tensile samples (could not get the whole machine into the picture.
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The foundary.

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