Steel Carburizing

Steel Carburizing

Steel carburizing is a heat treatment used with steels to form a strong, hard case (surface layer) over lower strength, more ductile steel.

The hardness and strength of carburized components depends on steel composition and the carburizing heat treating steps. Understanding the basics of how these factors affect steel microstructure is key to understanding how to get the desired properties in your components.

You will learn ...

  • carburizing process steps and process conditions.
  • effects of carburizing on case composition and microstructure.
  • effects of carburizing on case strength and hardness.
  • how case hardness and depth are measured.

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.

More details

  • Length: 3 hours
  • Training credit: 3 training hours and 0.3 CEUs
  • Content: 8 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 steel carburizing metallurgy knowledge you’ll gain from this course will help you with materials selection, supplier evaluation, process development, and solving quality problems. Also, you'll be able to better communicate more effectively with other engineers, customers, and heat treaters.

What you will learn

The following aspects of steel carburizing are taught in this course:

  • Purpose of case hardening.
  • Three methods for steel carburizing.
  • Thermal cycle and significant process variables for carburizing.
  • Metallurgical changes that occur in steel during carburizing.
  • How case hardness and depth is measured.
  • Effects of process parameters on case hardness and depth, microstructure, and hardness of carburized and carbonitrided steel.
  • Common problems encountered with carburizing and how to prevent these problems.
  • Carbonitriding process and the effects on steel hardness and case depth.

Course content

There are eight learning modules and a final exam. The modules are:

  1. Introduction to Case Hardening. Reasons for case hardening and categories of case hardening.
  2. Carburizing and its Metallurgical Effects. Carburizing process steps, the metallurgical changes that occur to steel components, and the effects on case hardness and depth.
  3. Carburizing Processes. Pack, liquid, gas, and low-pressure carburizing methods, their process parameters, and effects of process conditions on the carburized case.
  4. Measuring Case Hardness and Depth. The analysis technique for measuring case hardness and depth.
  5. Case Hardness and Depth. Effects of carburizing process conditions on case hardness and depth.
  6. Carburizing Problems. Common problems with a carburized steel and their causes.
  7. Carbonitriding. Gas carbonitriding process steps, metallurgical changes than occur, effects on case hardness and depth, and reasons for using the process.
  8. Review
  9. Final exam

Knowledge checks in each module give learners opportunities to apply the steel carburizing concepts taught. The course takes about three hours to complete.

You will have 4 months access to this course.

Prerequisites

Learners should be familiar with the concepts covered in our Principles of Metallurgy, Steel Metallurgy, and Steel Through Hardening courses. This includes

  • Basics of reading iron-carbon phase diagram
  • Phases that form in steel during heating and cooling
  • Effects of cooling rate on steel microstructure
  • Steel hardenability

See our Steel Metallurgy and Heat Treating Bundle. It includes this course and the prerequisite courses.

Course certificate

A certificate for 3 training hour (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.

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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.

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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.

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