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For products made of metal, many problems occur because people overlook metallurgy when making design, manufacturing, and supplier decisions and when working on quality problems. Created for design, quality, and manufacturing engineers, our metallurgy courses teach practical metallurgy concepts and how to apply them to real-world problems and decisions.
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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
February 27, 2019
Learn how metallurgy is applied to prevent and solve real-world business problems for product design and manufacturing. (FREE)
General Metallurgy
November 19, 2019
Learn the process for selecting materials that enable products to meet performance, reliability, and cost requirements, while keeping projects on
General Metallurgy
September 25, 2019
Learn the metallurgical fundamentals of how alloying, heat treatment, and cold working are used modify metal strength. (FREE)
Failure Analysis
August 26, 2020Video (Past Webinar)
Learn how metallurgical analyses are used to help determine the root cause of problems that arise during product development, manufacturing,
Failure Analysis
May 20, 2020Video (Past Webinar)
Learn how to perform a failure analysis on fractured and cracked components and joints. Includes a discussion of fracture modes
Carbon steel
May 21, 2020Video (Past Webinar)
Learn the metallurgical changes that occur during steel annealing, normalizing, and through hardening processes and the effects of alloy composition,
Carbon steel
May 20, 2020Video (Past Webinar)
Learn the relationships between carbon content, microstructure, heat treating, and carbon steel properties.
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
February 26, 2020Video (Past Webinar)
Learn the parts of a corrosion cell, common corrosion mechanisms, design factors that influence corrosion rate, and how to prevent
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, 2020Video (Past Webinar)
Learn about the electroplating process, plated layer properties and their evaluations, and plated layer defects and their causes.
