Precipitation Hardening

Precipitation Hardening

The strength of precipitation hardening (or precipitation strengthening) alloys depends on alloy composition and a series of heat treating steps. Understanding the basics of how alloy composition and heat treating affect metal microstructure is key to understanding how to get the desired properties in your components.

You will learn ...

  • How precipitation hardens and strengthens an alloy.
  • Heat treating process steps and the microstructure changes that occur during each step.
  • Effects of heat treating process conditions on alloy microstructure and strength.
  • Details for different alloy systems, including aluminum and stainless steel

This course is a strong fit for engineers, designers, technicians, quality professionals, and manufacturing teams who work with metals but do not need to become full-time metallurgists.

Course details

  • Length: 3 hours
  • Training credit: 3 training hours and 0.3 CEUs
  • Content: 7 learning modules, a final exam, and a pdf of the course slides
  • Format: Online, on-demand, and interactive
  • Access: 4 months
  • Certificate of completion: awarded after passing the final exam.
  • Best for: Engineers, technicians, quality and manufacturing teams, and purchasing professionals
  • Group discounts!

What this course helps you do

The metallurgy knowledge you’ll gain from this course will help you with materials selection, supplier evaluation, manufacturing process development, and solving quality problems. Also, you'll be able to better communicate more effectively with other engineers, customers, and suppliers.

What you will learn

The following aspects of precipitation hardening are taught in this course:

  • How precipitation hardens and strengthens an alloy.
  • Heat treating process steps and the microstructure changes that occur during each step.
  • The microstructure changes that occur during heat treating
  • The effects of heat treating process conditions on alloy microstructure and strength.
  • Heat treating process parameters and their effects on alloy microstructure and strength.

Quiz questions give learners opportunities to apply the concepts taught.

Course content

Introduction
Learn what precipitates are, how they harden and strengthen an alloy, and alloys that are precipitation hardened.
15 minutes
Precipitation Metallurgy I
Microstructure changes that occur in precipitation strengthening alloys when they are heated and cooled. Why only some alloys can be precipitation strengthened.
28 minutes
Precipitation Metallurgy II
Purpose of each precipitation strengthening heat treatment step. Effects of solution heat treatment temperature and time on microstructure and strength. Effects of quench delay and quench rate on microstructure and strength. Effects of aging temperature and time on microstructure and strength.
33 minutes
Heat Treating Equipment
Equipment used for precipitation strengthening heat treating.
21 minutes
Course review
20 minutes
Aluminum Alloys
Details about precipitation hardening of aluminum alloys.
18 minutes
Stainless Steel Alloys
Details about precipitation hardening of stainless steel alloys.
16 minutes
Final exam
70% required to pass the course and receive a certificate of completion.
25 minutes

Course certificate

A certificate for 3 training hours (0.3 CEUs) will be awarded after completing all course modules and successfully completing a final exam.


What people say about our courses

Engineers and technical professionals use this course to build practical metallurgy knowledge they can apply in design, manufacturing, quality, and supplier related work.

  • "Principles of Metallurgy covered the foundations of metallurgy and effects of manufacturing processes needed to obtain desired mechanical properties. This information has been valuable during my work in both design and manufacturing. I highly recommend it for someone that could benefit from knowledge of the fundamentals of metallurgy."
    Chris M.
    Mechanical Design Engineer
    Oil & Gas Industry
  • The Principles of Metallurgy course was a great refresher and supplement to the Properties of Materials course I took in college. The content focuses on information relative to industry, which will help greatly in my day-to-day job functions.
    Alex Nocera
    Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense
  • Well worth the time to do Metallurgy of Steel Heat Treating. It has given me more confidence in my job and given me a better understanding of some of the heat treatments used in the business
    Mark Winter
    Test House, Abbey Forged Products
  • I learned a bunch from this course. I needed an understanding of the heat treating and metals for our heat treating process in house. I now have a much better understanding of what is accomplished in the process along with understanding what could be a problem in our process.
    Tim Harris
    Gesipa Fasteners USA

Registering

Individual: Fee is per person. Add the course to your cart and pay. You will receive an email with instructions on how to access the course. Registering for someone else? Register using their name and email address at the start of the check-out process, and use your credit card to pay.

Group: Contact us to register more than one person or for pricing for groups of 5 or more people.

Registering

Individual: Add the video to your cart and pay. You will receive an email with instructions on how to access the course. Registering for someone else? Register using their name and email address at the start of the check-out process, and use your credit card to pay.

Group: Contact us to register more than one person or for pricing for groups of 5 or more people.

Registering

Individual: Fee is per person. Add the webinar to your cart and pay. You will receive an email with instructions on how to access the training. Registering for someone else? Register using their name and email address at the start of the check-out process, and use your credit card to pay.

Group: Register more than one person by clicking the "Add to Cart" button multiple times or by editing the quantity in the shopping cart. After registering you will receive an email with information about how to access the course that you can share with the others in your group. Contact us for pricing for large groups of people.

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