ASM Heat Treatment of Steel Digital Self-Study Course

Self-Study

Product code: I-00024309

Heat Treatment of Steel is a comprehensive course that covers practical heat treating of carbon, alloy, stainless and tool steels. In this course, there is additional emphasis on process applications, including valuable information on atmosphere control, quenching, temperature control and the type of equipment that is proper for different types of heat treating operations.

This course has been enhanced with self-guided digital short courses added to related lessons.

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$2,075.00

Member Price: $1,875.00

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With the majority of heat treating problems occurring during quenching, this course now has more detailed coverage on quenching media and equipment to help you increase your understanding of hardening of steel. “Elements of Metallurgy”, or its equivalent, is recommended as a prerequisite.

This course has been enhanced with self-guided digital short courses added to related lessons. These additions feature enhanced visuals, narrated text and animations, and interactive quizzes to support learning.

Target Audience

This course is intended for mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineers, metallurgists, machine shop superintendents and managers in heat treating operations.

Suggested Pre-Requisites

ASM’s Elements of Metallurgy course.

Continuing Education Units: 3.0

You will have 12 months to complete the course from the time you register.

Steel and Its Mechanical Properties — what is steel — properties, how these properties are measured, elasticity, plasticity, tensile testing
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties — constitution of steel, effect of alloying elements and heat treatment, transformation temperatures
Austenite and Its Transformation and Classification of Steels — relationship between structure of steel and its mechanical properties, two basic methods of controlling structure
Annealing and Normalizing Steel — the annealing of steel, the procedures for controlling structure, problems of scaling, decarburization, normalizing
Hardening of Steel — proper hardening processes, quenching, hardening principles
Quenching of Media and Equipment — principles of heat treatment of metals, quenching methods, mechanisms of quenching, determination of quenching effects, quenching conditions, quenching equipment, safety
Tempering of Steel — three stages — effect of temperature, time, composition, structure on properties, precipitation effects
Types and Construction of Heat Treating Furnaces — fuels and temperature control, classification of furnaces, measuring instruments, how to calibrate to insure accuracy
Furnace Atmospheres — oxidation and reduction, inert gas, hydrogen, exothermic and endothermic prepared atmospheres, partial pressures, carbon control, dewpoint and CO2 vacuum
Vacuum Heat Processing — vacuum heat treating, nature of the gaseous state, kinetic theory of gases, design of a vacuum furnace system, construction of vacuum furnaces, vacuum furnace designs, vacuum gages, heating element materials, heat insulation methods, electrical power sources, care of metal radiation shields, temperature measurements, quenching systems, vapor pressure, dissociation of metallic oxides, vacuum carburizing, vacuum brazing, reaction of work load with furnace fixtures, cycle control system
Surface Hardening — flame, induction hardening, methods, reactions, and effects of carburizing, discussion of miscellaneous surface hardening methods
Induction Heat Treatment — fundamentals of heat treatment, equipment selection and processing parameters, technical considerations, applications
Difficulties and Imperfections Associated with Heat Treated Steel — types of imperfections or failures, cracking, types and causes, other imperfections
Heat Treatment of Tool Steels — water hardening, shock resisting, nondeforming, hot work and high speed steels, types and characteristics of tool steels
Constitution and Heat Treatment of Stainless Steels — martensitic, ferritic, austenitic, precipitation hardening stainless steels

Refund Policy for Self-Study Courses:

A refund will only be given for Self-Study sales if requested in writing to ASM International’s Education Department at [email protected] within 30 days of purchasing the course(s). However, if ASM International records demonstrate that the student has accessed more than 2 lessons online or opened the final exam within those 30 days then no refund will be issued.