ASM Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist™ Digital Self-Study Course

Self-Study

Product code: I-00024271

(#1 Best-Seller) An ideal first course for anyone who needs a working understanding of metals and their applications. It has been designed for those with no previous training in metallurgy, such as technical, laboratory, and sales personnel; engineers from other disciplines; management and administrative staff; and non-technical support staff such as purchasing and receiving agents who order and inspect incoming material.

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

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COURSE OVERVIEW

Presents a brief history of metals, providing insight into the discovery and use of pure metals and alloys thousands of years before the modern era.
Provides an explanation of the unique physical characteristics of metals, including the reasons that metals behave differently than such non-metals as plastics, glass, wood, etc.
Explains the basis for the selection of different metals for specific engineering applications.
Describes how metals are alloyed to achieve desired properties.
Provides details on one of the most important of all alloys — steel – and discusses how steel is heat-treated to achieve various combinations of strength and ductility.
Explains how metals are formed into the components that are used in our most important engineered machines and structures.
Describes how metals are tested to determine critical properties, such as strength, ductility and toughness.
Discusses why metals corrode, why different metals behave differently in corrosive environments, and how the corrosion of metals can be controlled.

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.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

How metals are recovered from nature and processed into usable forms
The characteristics of different metal alloy systems
A basic understanding of phase diagrams
Factors that affect selection of the proper material
Mechanical properties and various testing methods
How the properties of metals can be altered through heat treatment
Introduction to mechanisms of corrosion and comparative corrosive potential

WHO SHOULD ENROLL

This is an ideal first course for anyone who needs a working understanding of metals and their applications. It has been designed for those with no previous training in metallurgy, such as technical, laboratory, and sales personnel; engineers from other disciplines; management and administrative staff; and non-technical support staff such as purchasing and receiving agents who order and inspect incoming material.

Continuing Education Units: 3.0

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

Metals: A History: History of the discovery of the major commercially important metals; the first primitive refining techniques; brief descriptions of cultural significance of metals.
Extractive Metallurgy: Techniques used to win metals from mineral ores, including hydrometallurgical, pyrometallurgical, and electrometallurgical techniques.
Solidfication of Metals: Introduction to the science of metallurgy, including crystal structure; concepts of solidification and solid solubility; basic binary phase diagrams.
Metal Forming: Forging, rolling, extrusion, swaging, and other techniques employed to form metals at elevated temperatures; rolling, stamping, coining, spinning, and other techniques used to form metals at ambient temperatures.
Mechanical Properties and Their Measurement: Definitions of mechanical properties and explanations of testing procedures; introduction to concepts of standardization and quality control.
Steels and Cast Irons: Applications and Metallurgy: Description of the allotropic nature of iron and its effect on the properties of steels and cast irons; listing of selected applications of steels and cast irons.
Heat Treatment of Steel: Hardness and hardenability of steel; specific processes and their applications; heat treating procedures, equipment, quenchants, and hardness measurements.
Case Hardening of Steel: Techniques used to harden the case of a metal, including carburizing, nitriding, carbonitriding; procedure for measuring case depth.
Strengthening Mechanisms: Techniques used to harden the nonferrous metals, including age hardening, strain hardening and related metallurgical concepts for aluminum, titanium, copper, and other nonferrous metals.
Nonferrous Metals: Industrial Applications and Properties: Light metals, aluminum, beryllium, magnesium, and titanium; copper and its alloys; lead, tin, and zinc; precious metals.
Joining: Techniques of welding, brazing, and soldering, including descriptions of specific applications of each process described.
Corrosion and Corrosion Prevention: Causes of corrosion and the environmental factors which contribute to it; types of corrosion are discussed, together with techniques for minimizing it.
Quality Control and Failure Analysis: Procedures for predicting and/or evaluating the performance of metals in service.
Materials Characterization and the Selection Process: Explanation of the designation systems for classes of metals and alloys in worldwide use today; descriptions of factors which affect the selection of a material for a particular application; brief comparison of polymers and ceramics related to metals; case studies of material selection problems.

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.