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Metallurgy for Non-Metallurgists (EAD)

 - Target Audience : technicians and engineers or professionals from other areas who are somehow involved with metallic materials

- Credit Hours : 16 hours (2 days)

- Previous knowledge : none

The course is divided into the following modules:

a) Transmit concepts  technicians on metals, in particular on ferrous alloys (steel and cast iron) and aluminum alloys. How are metals produced? Why do metals deform? Why are they good drivers?

b) How metals and their alloys are obtained and transformed into the products we use in our projects (rolling, forging, casting, sintering, etc.)

c) Phase diagrams and their importance

d) The micro-constituents of steels and how they affect the mechanical properties

e) The “ families ” of most important materials, such as steels for mechanical construction, for use in molds for plastic injection, steels for forging, etc. and Al-Si alloys.

f) Thermal treatments , based on the  TTT diagrams  (temperature, time, transformation) and derived from phase diagrams.

g)Mechanical properties and how they relate (ductility, tenacity, hardness, resilience, etc.)

h) Analysis of historical failure cases involving metals (Titanic, Comet, Ayrton Senna accident)

i) Welding processes

j) Non-Destructive Tests

k) Fracture Mechanics (the relationship between defects and strength of materials)

l) How do metals fail?

m) Fractography - analysis of fractures and determination of root causes in failure processes

n) Analysis of real cases  

The course is taught through slides, films and exercises.

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