For any product, meeting component performance, reliability, and cost requirements depends on two things: component mechanical form and component materials.
Design engineers are comfortable engineering the mechanical form of components. Unfortunately, they are not as comfortable engineering the metals in components. Many product problems that can be avoided reflect this.
The lack of comfort with metals engineering is due to a metallurgy knowledge gap.
Our on-demand courses, webinars, and on-site training were designed to help engineers close the knowledge gap. Learn metallurgy and how metals can be engineered to:
Improve your metals engineering knowledge to bring greater value to yourself and your organization.
General Metallurgy
Learn the metallurgical fundamentals of how alloying, heat treatment, and cold working are used modify metal strength.
General Metallurgy
Learn how precipitation affects metal strength and the effects of precipitation strengthening heat treating process parameters on alloy microstructure and strength.
Failure Analysis
Learn the analysis techniques and steps to perform a failure analysis of metal components and joints that failed by fracturing, corrosion, or poor manufacturing quality.
Carbon steel
Learn the metallurgical changes that occur during case hardening processes and the effects of alloy composition, heat treating process parameters on steel microstructure and properties.
Carbon steel
Learn about the metallurgy of carbon steel, including common microstructures and their influence on steel properties, and effects of heat treating on steel microstructure and properties.
Carbon steel
Learn the metallurgical changes that occur during through hardening and effects of composition, heat treating time and temperature, and quench rate on microstructure and properties.
Aluminum
Learn about the metallurgy of wrought aluminum alloys, including the effects of alloy composition, cold-working, and heat treating on aluminum microstructure and strength.
Corrosion
Learn the parts of a corrosion cell, seven common corrosion mechanisms, metallurgical and mechanical factors that influence corrosion rate, and design approaches to prevent corrosion.
Testing and Analysis
Learn how tensile tests are performed and the mechanical properties determined based on the test data.
Testing and Analysis
Learn how Brinell, Rockwell, and microhardness tests are performed and how samples are prepared for testing.
Coatings
Learn about electroplating process steps, important coating properties and features and how they are evaluated, and coating defects and causes.
General Metallurgy
August 25, 2020
Learn how to optimize component designs and learn metallurgical fundamentals to gain insight into how to engineer metals.
Failure Analysis
August 27, 2020
Learn how metallurgical analysis techniques are used to obtain the information needed to determine the root cause of problems.
Carbon steel
June 18, 2020
Learn the considerations for identifying steel alloys and mill conditions suitable for an application. Case studies will be used to
Carbon steel
June 17, 2020
Learn the relationships between steel alloy composition, microstructure, heat treating, and properties. This provides insights into how steels can be
Aluminum
June 20, 2019Video (Past Webinar)
Learn about the microstructure changes that take place during aluminum heat treating and the effects on an alloy’s properties.
Aluminum
August 27, 2020Video (Past Webinar)
Learn about the metallurgy of wrought aluminum alloys, including the effects of alloy composition, cold-working, and heat treating on aluminum
Aluminum
June 22, 2019Video (Past Webinar)
Learn about the common aluminum, magnesium, and zinc die casting alloys and factors that influence die cast component quality.
Stainless Steel
February 27, 2020Video (Past Webinar)
Learn about stainless steel metallurgy with respect to stainless steel strength and corrosion resistance.
Corrosion
August 25, 2020
Learn about common corrosion mechanisms and design approaches to reduce and prevent corrosion.
Cast Iron
February 27, 2020Video (Past Webinar)
Learn about the metallurgy of gray and ductile cast iron, including the effects of alloy composition and casting process
Coatings
February 26, 2020
Learn about the electroplating process, plated layer properties and their evaluations, and plated layer defects and their causes.
