Hongliang Yi and Easyforming

Burmet obtained a scholarship to study computing in Cambridge. She applied for the scholarship from the American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kygyztan. Harry is a Trustee of that University, so although Bermet is at Murray Edwards College, she visited Harry at Darwin.

Some of the pictures here are not relevant to the encounter with Burmet, but are interesting.

Hongliang Yi and the Easyforming laboratory complex	Easyforming invented the AluSlim coating that protects the steel while it is formed in the austenitic condition.
This coating technology beat the long-standing patent of Arcelor Mittal	Xiaochuan Xiong on the right. His work on the Fe-N pearlite appears in Harry's latest book.
The team	Notice that this is made of lovely tensile-test specimens
The superstrong B and A pillars that protect the passenger compartment in the even of a crash.	Lamp designed to look like rolled steel
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III	Laser welded 2 GPa steel, bend-tested component, exhibiting no signs of failure by cracking.
III	An exhibition of the evolution of automotive steel at Easyforming
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You can just about see the original automobile.	Cars using sheet-steel were only introduced when the painting and assembly of bits seemed to take too long.
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III	Note that the clock digits are made of metallographic samples
Clock digits	Scanning electron microscope, made in China, invented originally at the Cambridge University Engineering Department
Cannot stop admiring these wonderful structures	III
III	Huge variety of steel strengths covered by AluSlim
Here they show the old technology in grey.	III
Easyforming has heavy equipment needed to demonstrate the technology on a realistic scale.	III
III	This is one of the huge number of cars that now have Easyforming technology implemented. The man is the financial executive of Easyforming, who owns this particular electric car.