Proceedings of the international conference Abrasion 2011 (Abrasion Wear Resistant Alloyed White Cast Irons For Rolling and Pulverizing Mills), 4th Edition

The « Abrasion » Conferences offer an almost unique opportunity to gather every three years people working in the field of abrasion resistant high chromium irons to be used in rolling and pulverizing mills. The well addresses topic and the small, but very active research community are the key factors for the success of this event. The University of Liege receives the organization by inheritance form Fukuoka (Japan 2002), São Paulo (Brazil 2005) and Trento (Italy 2008). It represents a very tough challenge for the local organizing committee, but the enthusiasm to host in Liege academic staff and people from the industry coming from all around the world was too big to renounce to this opportunity. The number of contributions for this fourth edition confirms that the idea of professor Matsubara to promote the meeting between University and Industry was really responding to the expectations of both these subjects. Scientists and technicians of 12 countries will attend the conference: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey. Twenty high quality contributions dealing with solidification, heat treatments, microstructural properties, oxidation and wear resistances will be presented. I believe that the present proceedings will contribute to the extension of knowledge in the area of science, research, development and application in Abrasion Wear Resistant Alloyed Cast Irons for Rolling and Pulverizing Mills. Proceedings are also available in a CD Rom version. A special thanks to all people contributing to the organization of the ABRASION 2011, to the nearby industries Åkers, Arcelor, ESW, GP, Magotteaux, MK, and to the CRM Group for offering the opportunity of the technical visit to the Research plant
in Liege.