“…Lighter structures can be achieved for example by reducing the component wall thicknesses, but to withstand heavy loadings and to retain the component functionality, materials with improved mechanical properties must be developed. In fact, some newly developed high strength steels have in the laboratory scale [1] been shown to provide excellent properties against impact-abrasion type loadings. It is, however, also important to understand their behavior under solid particle erosion and abrasive conditions in order to improve them further.…”