Are you a training provider looking to grow your technical training course offerings quickly, professionally and with proven industry impact? 

If so, we offer for purchase our extensive range of course packages, which include all the course materials required to enable training providers, further & higher educational institutions and employers, deliver industry-leading training courses in Metallurgy, Materials Science & Engineering, Welding Technology & Quality Management.

COURSE PACKAGE OVERVIEW

This course provides candidates with comprehensive knowledge, skills & understanding on the structure, properties, manufacture, applications, inspection & testing of steel, stainless steel & cast iron.

The course is focussed on providing practical, work-place ready skills that employers and industry require, but that many academic programmes do not provide.

The course is divided into 7 MODULES as follows:

1.  Physical Metallurgy & Crystalline Structure of Metals & Alloys

2.  Mechanical Properties & their Measurement

3.  Inspection: Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Techniques

4.  Steelmaking & Steel Manufacturing Processes

5.  Metallurgy of Steel

6.  Metallurgy of Stainless Steel

7.  Metallurgy of Cast Iron

A complete list of topics covered on the course is shown further down the page under the heading: 'COURSE CONTENT.'

The course is suitable for candidates at all levels, including those new to ferrous metals, as no specific qualification entry requirements are required. 

Total estimated time to deliver the training 55 hours.

Industry Sectors 

The knowledge & skills gained on the course are applicable to a wide range of manufacturing industry sectors, including:

🔺 AEROSPACE

🔺 AUTOMOTIVE

🔺 OIL & GAS

🔺CHEMICAL

🔺POWER GENERATION, INCLUDING NUCLEAR

🔺ENGINEERING

🔺CONSTRUCTION

🔺FOOD & DRINK

BENEFITS OF OUR COURSE PACKAGES

1. Industry-Relevant: Developed by academic & industry experts ensures that the content is both academically rigorous and practically relevant. 

2. Accredited Certifications: Our courses have accreditation from highly experienced, professionally qualified Chartered Engineers, Materials Engineers, Metallurgists & Welding professionals, with decades of industry experience. The value of our certifications to industry has also been recognised by top organisations & professional bodies. 

3. Proven Success: Our training has already empowered professionals from high-profile organisations & professional bodies including Arcelor Mittal, Bourne Steel, J & D Pierce Contracts Ltd, UKRI - Science & Technologies Facilities Council, TAQA Bratani, Moog Aircraft Group, Millar Callaghan Engineering Services Ltd, Professional Lifting Services Ltd, Mueller Europe, WQiC, Harold Newsome Ltd, William Haley Engineering Ltd, RWE Generation UK PLC, TEi Ltd, The Institute of Cast Metal Engineers (ICME), Sulzer and The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC.)

4. Excellent Feedback: Our courses have received excellent feedback from candidates who have completed them, highlighting their effectiveness in developing knowledge, skills and understanding. To review their comments, please follow the link.

5. No Prior Knowledge Required: The course is suitable for candidates at all levels, including those new to metallurgy, as no specific qualification entry requirements are needed. Anyone with passion and curiosity can access world-class metals education—regardless of academic background. 

6. Comprehensive Curriculum: This is a comprehensive course. A complete list of topics covered on the course is shown further down the page under the heading: 'COURSE CONTENT.'

7. Career Advancement: The training is designed to enhance candidates' career prospects by increasing their technical knowledge, skills, and understanding. 

COURSE CONTENT

PHYSICAL METALLURGY & CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE OF METALS & ALLOYS

• ATOMS & METALLIC BONDS

• CRYSTAL LATTICES 

• CRYSTAL SYSTEMS

• CRYSTALS & GRAINS

• GRAIN SIZE & EFFECT ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

• MEASURING GRAIN SIZE

• MALLEABILITY

• SLIP & TWINNING

• SLIP & DISLOCATIONS

• MILLER INDICES

• EFFECT OF VACANCIES-METAL CREEP

• WROUGHT PRODUCTS

• HOT WORKING & DYNAMIC RECRYSTALLISATION

• COLD WORKING & WORK HARDENING

• ANNEALING, ANNEALING TWINS & STACKING FAULTS

• CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC TEXTURE

• EFFECT OF ALLOYING: SOLID SOLUTIONS; INTERMEDIATE PHASES; INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS

• METAL STRENGTHENING MECHANISMS

• BINARY & TERNARY PHASE DIAGRAMS 

• PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS

• IRON CARBON PHASE DIAGRAM

• METASTABLE PHASES & MARTENSITE TRANSFORMATION

• TIME TEMPERATURE TRANSFORMATION (TTT) DIAGRAMS

• CONTINUOUS COOLING TRANSFORMATION DIAGRAMS

• METALLOGRAPHY-MACROSTRUCTURAL & MICROSTRUCTURAL EXAMINATION

• OPTICAL MICROSCOPY

• NON-METALLIC INCLUSIONS

• ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

HEAT TREATMENT

• ANNEALING 

• QUENCHING

• TEMPERING

• NORMALISING

• AUSTEMPERING 

• MARTEMPERING

• PRECIPITATION HARDENING

• SOLUTION TREATMENT

• PATENTING

• STRESS RELIEVING

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES & THEIR MEASUREMENT

• TENSILE TESTING 

• CHARPY IMPACT TESTING 

• DROP WEIGHT (PELLINI) TESTING

• DROP WEIGHT TEAR TESTING

• HARDNESS TESTING

• CREEP & STRESS RUPTURE TESTING 

• FRACTURE MECHANICS TESTING

• FATIGUE TESTING

• PROOF TESTING

• METALS CERTIFICATION TO BS EN 10204

INSPECTION: NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING (NDT) TECHNIQUES

• ULTRASONIC TESTING (UT)

• MAGNETIC PARTICLE TESTING (MT)

• DYE PENETRANT TESTING (PT)

• EDDY CURRENT TESTING (ET)

• RADIOGRAPHIC TESTING  (RT)  

HOW STEEL IS MADE

• PRIMARY STEELMAKING FROM IRON ORE: BLAST FURNACE (BF) & BASIC OXYGEN STEELMAKING (BOS) PROCESSES

• PRIMARY STEELMAKING USING SCRAP & DRI: ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE (EAF) PROCESS

• COMPARISON OF 'RESIDUALS' BETWEEN BF / BOS & EAF PROCESSES

• DEVELOPMENTS IN LOW CARBON EMISSIONS STEELMAKING USING HYDROGEN AS A REDUCING AGENT: 'GREEN' STEELMAKING

• SECONDARY STEELMAKING; DEXOXIDATION; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; INCLUSION REMOVAL; REMOVAL OF DISSOLVED GASES-VACUUM TREATMENT; SULPHUR REMOVAL; CARBON REMOVAL-VACUUM CARBON DEOXIDATION-VCD.

• STAINLESS STEEL STEELMAKING (AOD & VOD PROCESSES)

• VACUUM INDUCTION MELTING 

• CONTINOUS CASTING

• INGOT CASTING

• SAND CASTING

• INVESTMENT CASTING

• CENTRIFUGAL CASTING

• HOT ROLLED PRODUCTS: STRIP, SECTIONS; PLATES; BARS; RAIL; WIRE ROD 

• RING ROLLING

• QUENCHING & SELF TEMPERING (QST) PROCESS

• PIPE MANUFACTURE

• SEAMLESS & WELDED PRECISION TUBE MANUFACTURE

• OPEN DIE & CLOSED DIE FORGING 

• HIGH INTEGRITY REMELTING PROCESSES (ESR & VAR)

• SOLIDIFICATION STRUCTURES: DENDRITES; COLUMNAR GRAINS; EQUIAXED GRAINS

• MICROSEGREGATION; MACROSEGREGATION & SULPHUR PRINTING 

• HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT

• FATIGUE FAILURE & CORROSION FATIGUE

• COLD ROLLING

• WIRE DRAWING 

• BRIGHT BAR

• SHEET METAL FORMING 

• MACHINING

• POWDER METALLURGY

• ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

• CORROSION PROTECTION: PAINTING; GALVANISING

METALLURGY OF STEEL

• ROLE OF ALLOYING ELEMENTS

• HARDENABILITY: JOMINY TESTING & DI CALCULATION

• QUENCHING & TEMPERING

• TEMPER EMBRITTLEMENT

• WELDABILITY: CARBON EQUIVALENT VALUE 

• CLASSIFICATIONS AND DESIGNATIONS OF STEELS:

  • PLAIN CARBON STEELS

  • CARBON MANGANESE & MICROALLOYED (HSLA) STEELS INCLUDING ADVANCED HIGH STRENGTH STEELS - TRIP STEELS

  • STRUCTURAL STEELS & EN 10025

  • REINFORCING STEELS & BS 4449

  • LOW ALLOY & ALLOY STEELS:

    • CRYOGENIC STEELS 

    • HIGH TEMPERATURE, CREEP RESISTANT STEELS 

    • STEELS FOR SOUR SERVICE 

    • ADVANCED HIGH STRENGTH STEELS-DUAL PHASE STEELS

    • TOOL STEELS & POWDER METALLURGY

    • MANGANESE STEEL:

      • Hadfields Mn Steel

      • Advanced High Strength Steels-TWIP Steel

  • MARAGING STEEL

• SURFACE HARDENING OF STEEL (CARBURISING, NITRIDING, FLAME HARDENING, INDUCTION HARDENING; WELD OVERLAYS)

METALLURGY OF STAINLESS STEEL

• COMPOSITION OF STAINLESS STEELS

• FERRITIC; MARTENSITIC; AUSTENITIC; DUPLEX; PRECIPITATION HARDENING GRADES

• TYPES OF CORROSION: CREVICE CORROSION; PITTING CORROSION; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING; GALVANIC CORROSION; EROSION-CORROSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE OXIDATION

• CORROSION TESTING

METALLURGY OF CAST IRON

• HISTORY OF CAST IRON

• CAST IRON BRIDGES

• CHARACTERISTICS OF CAST IRON

• INOCULATION TO PROMOTE GRAPHITE SOLIDIFICATION

• CARBON EQUIVALENT

• THERMAL ANALYSIS

• THE EUTECTIC TRANSFORMATION

• BLAST FURNACE IRONMAKING

• TYPES OF MELTING UNITS

• CENTRIFUGAL CASTING

• EFFECT OF ALLOYING ELEMENTS

• TYPES OF CAST IRON:

  • GREY IRON 

  • AUSTENITIC GREY IRON 'NI-RESIST'

  • WHITE IRON

  • ALLOYED WHITE IRON:

    • 'NI-HARD'

    • HIGH CHROMIUM IRON

  • DUCTILE IRON:

    • HEAT TREATMENTS

    • AUSTENITIC DUCTILE IRON 'NI-RESIST'

    • Si-Mo IRON

    • AUSTEMPERED DUCTILE IRON (ADI)

  • COMPACTED GRAPHITE IRON

  • MALLEABLE IRON      

Purchase this Course Package

If you are a training provider, or employer looking to deliver this training then for a quotation, or for more information, please contact our Principal Consultant, Philip Bralsford:

• • e-mail: philip@philipbralsford.co.uk

• • Telephone: +44 (0)114 235 6111 

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