The process of heat treating metals and metal alloys is simply heating and/or cooling a solid metal or alloy in a way designed to produce specific conditions and/or properties. Heat treatment of carbon and alloy steels is crucial in today’s industrial world because of the range of desirable mechanical properties that may be obtained and the importance of steel in every realm of modern life. In this self-guided digital course on “Heat Treatment of Carbon and Alloy Steels”, students will learn – with the help of rich visuals, narrated animations, demonstration videos, and interactive quizzes – the various heat treatment processes involved in modulation properties of steel, effect of carbon on the phases of iron and how it affects the microstructure, classification of steel and tempering of steel. The course also includes information on hardness and hardenability of iron, Jominy end-quench test for measuring hardenability and different types of furnaces used in commercial heat treating processes.
WHO SHOULD ENROLL:
- Design Engineers
- Operators
- Technicians
- Process Engineers
- QA Managers
- Product Development Specialists
- Sales and Purchasing Professionals
COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Describe the austenite transformation processes
- List the primary quenching media and their applications
- Explain tempering
- Classify heat treating furnaces by heat transfer media
- Outline the procedure for the Jominy end-quench test for hardenability
Continuing Education Units: PDH 2.0/CEU 0.2