COURSE OVERVIEW

 This hands-on, 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. 

Heat Treating is defined as heating and cooling a solid metal or alloy in such a way as to obtain desired conditions or properties. This course provides valuable insights into the effects of thermal treatments for softening steel (annealing) as well as hardening treatments such as quenching and tempering, austempering, and various surface (cases) hardening methods. 

 

Heat treatments for plain carbon, low alloy, stainless, cast irons, and tool steels are described and related to the fundamental changes in microstructure and properties that occur during such processing.  There is also emphasis on heat treating process control with regard to furnace atmospheres, temperature, quenching techniques, and selection of proper furnace equipment for different types of heat treating operations. 

 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the heat treatment processes and related technology; the guidelines for the heat treatment of steel; the carbon and alloy steels, tool steels, ultrahigh-strength steels and stainless steels; heat treating iron castings and P/M steels; heat treating of gray iron and ductile iron; heat treating malleable irons; and the P/M tool steels, P/M stainless steel and P/M steel parts.