COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Materials & Testing Foundation. It covers the materials engineering in oil and gas, classification of engineering materials, mechanical and physical properties of materials and material degradation mechanisms; the materials testing, tensile testing, hardness testing, impact testing, fatigue testing, creep testing and bend and flexural testing; and the NDT methods, visual testing (VT), ultrasonic testing (UT), radiographic testing (RT), magnetic particle testing (MPT) and liquid penetrant testing (LPT). 

 

Further, the course will also discuss the crystal structures (BCC, FCC, HCP), grain size and boundaries; the solidification and phase transformation and alloying elements and effects; the heat treatment of metals, annealing, normalizing, quenching, tempering and precipitation hardening; the heat-affected zone (HAZ), welding defects and causes, post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) and welding metallurgy and material compatibility; the corrosion mechanisms and testing, uniform corrosion, pitting and crevice corrosion; and the stress corrosion cracking and corrosion testing methods. 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the material selection criteria, service temperature and pressure, corrosive environment resistance, mechanical property requirements and economic and availability considerations; the industry standards and codes, ASTM material testing standards, ASME material specifications, ISO quality management in materials testing and API standards for oil and gas materials; the material certification and traceability and quality control in materials testing; and the failure analysis procedures and laboratory safety in materials testing.