Carbon and Alloy Steel Metallurgy
Description
This course focuses on basic metallurgical principles, primary and secondary steel making processes, how steels are specified and evaluated, and matching grades to applications. It has been developed for people with technical and engineering backgrounds, working in or with the steel industry, to help them gain an understanding of the metallurgy and processing of Carbon and Alloy Steels.
Who should attend?
New or experienced personnel in technical and engineering occupations who would benefit from an understanding of steel processing, products and properties. Attendees could be production or process engineers, quality and inspection personnel and could be at a supervisory, managerial or professional engineering level.
How to book
Metallurgy courses are delivered online depending upon sufficient enrolment. Interested participants are encouraged to contact cpd@amrctraining.co.uk to receive further information.
Course content - Carbon and Alloy Steel Metallurgy
- What is steel?
- Ferrite and Austenite
- Effect of grain size
- Dislocations and strength
- Strengthening mechanisms in steel
- Effect of alloying elements on steel
- Heat treatment and its effect on steel
- Normalising, annealing, quench and tempering
- Phases in steel
- Austenite, Ferrite, Pearlite, Bainite and Martensite
- Iron (Carbon phase diagram)
- Mechanical properties of steel: tensile, hardness and impact toughness
- Properties of steel
- Typical applications of steel
- Welding and carbon equivalent
- Engineering steels
- Structural steels
- Stainless steels and typical grades
- Steelmaking
- Blast furnaces
- Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS)
- Electric arc furnace (EAF)
- Case hardening
- Nitriding
- Carburising
- Induction hardening
- Effect of welding on materials
- Microstructure of welds
