COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Material Selection & Failure Analysis. It covers the importance of material selection in engineering design as well as the key factors influencing material choice; material properties, material selection process, categories of engineering materials and material standards and specifications; the environmental and economic considerations and material selection for structural applications, electrical applications and thermal applications; the corrosion and chemical resistance in material selection; and the material selection for high-temperature applications, lightweight materials for design efficiency and specialty materials for unique applications. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the purpose of failure analysis, types of material failure and steps involved in failure analysis; the common failure modes and mechanisms as well as the fracture mechanics and crack propagation; the fatigue failures and detriment wear and erosion mechanisms and corrosion-induced failures; visual inspection and macroscopic analysis, microscopy techniques in failure analysis and non-destructive testing (NDT) methods; the mechanical testing for failure analysis, chemical analysis techniques and data analysis and interpretation; and root cause analysis and failure prevention, documentation and reporting failure analysis and trends and innovations in material selection and failure analysis.