The purpose of this workshop was to help Cambridge University appreciate details about bearing steels and associated technologies. There was an introducion to bearing steels by Aidan Kerrigan, steel production technologies by John Beswick, heat-treatment technologies by Marco Burtchen, industrial bearings steels and heat-treatment by Ingemar Strandell, automotive bearing steels and heat-treatment by Johann Volkmuth and Lex Molennaar, superbainite by Harry Bhadeshia and irreversible thermodynamics by Pedro Rivera.

Trinity College |

St John's College, where the meeting was held |

St John's College, where the meeting was held |

Dirac room in the Fisher building |

Lunch |

Huang talking to Lex Molennaar |

Balnka, talking to Johann Volkmuth |

Rachel Hobson and John Beswick |

Brian, who videoed all the talks |

Andrew Barrow, Aidan Kerrigan, Marco Burtchen and Pedro Rivera |

Brina, Pedro and Harry in the Dirac room |

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Huang and Chris Amey, who is the new technician for the SKF/Cambridge Steel Technology Centre |

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Rachel met Terry Frost (the artist) when she was 17 |

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Pedro, Ingemar Strandell and the team |

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Aidan, John and Lex |

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The dinner: Rachel Hobson and Chris Amey could not attend. |

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Lex and Andy studying the engineering of the ancient window-opening system |

A full moon arranged for the occasion |