As engineers, designers, and technologists assume decision-making responsibilities, they quickly realize that materials play a vital role in the design, manufacture, and service life of components. For example, significant reductions in mechanical strength may result from exposure to fluctuating stresses (fatigue) or corrosive environments. In this seminar you will learn how these decision-making
responsibilities can be made easier by being able to:
- Understand the link between structure, properties, and applications of materials.
- Recognize the problems of material/material and material/environment incompatibility in terms of corrosion.
- Assess the relative merits of different alloys for different tasks.
- Assign preventative measures to safely prolong the life of components.
Upon successful completion of this course, the delegates will be able to:
- Understand the principles and causes of corrosion
- Explain the techniques available for protection against corrosion
- Compare the relative merits of different stainless steels and other alloys
- Be familiar with international coding for industrial alloys
- Describe and explain low stress failure mechanisms in metallic materials
- Compare the characterization techniques for evaluating failure mechanisms
- Describe and compare methods for enhancing prevention of failures
DAY 1
The Causes and Types of Corrosion
- Corrosion mechanisms
- Types of corrosion
- The galvanic series
- Atmospheric corrosion of engineering alloys
DAY 2
Corrosion prevention
- Corrosion environments
- Cathodic protection
- Thermal sprayed coatings
- Plated coatings
- Vacuum coatings
- Other techniques
DAY 3
Metallic Materials
- Strength, ductility, toughness, wear, and fatigue
- Stainless steels and other alloys
- Codings and specifications of engineering alloys
- Deformation and strengthening mechanisms
Day 4
Low-Stress Failure Mechanisms
- Ductile and brittle fracture
- Fatigue failures
- Stress raisers
- Fracture toughness
Day 5
Anticipating and Preventing Failure
- Non-destructive testing
- Optical and electron microscopy
- Design implications
- Surface engineering
- Newly appointed engineers, designers and technologists.
- New members of an engineering team.
- Those engineers/designers/supervisors that have been in their position for less than a year, or are about to be promoted to their first managerial/ supervisory position.