Metallurgy for the

Non-Metallurgist

15 DVD Set

Price $ 2351

Description

• Understanding the basic technology of heat treating, welding, casting, forging, metal forming, electroplating, corrosion

prevention, testing, powder metallurgy and machining

• Understanding how to interpret and explain the basics of metallurgy as they apply to your specific products

DVD 1: Metals: A History (50 Minutes)

History of the discovery of the major commercially important metals

The first primitive refining techniques

Brief descriptions of cultural significance of metals

DVD 2: Materials Characterization and the Selection Process (48 Minutes)

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

DVD 3: Mechanical Properties and their Measurement (53 Minutes)

Definitions of mechanical properties and explanations of testing procedures

Introduction to concepts of standardization and quality control

DVD 4: Steels and Cast Irons: Applications and Metallurgy (54 Minutes)

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

DVD 5: Nonferrous Metals: Industrial Applications and Properties (60 Minutes)

Light metals, aluminum, beryllium, magnesium and titanium

Copper and its alloys

Lead, tin, and zinc

Precious metals

DVD 6: Extractive Metallurgy (52 Minutes)

Techniques used to win metals from mineral ores, including hydrometallurgical, pyrometallurgical,

and electrometallurgical techniques

DVD 7: Getting Metals into Usable Form: Hot Working (42 Minutes)

Forging, rolling, extrusion, swaging, and other techniques employed to form metals at

elevated temperatures

DVD 8: Getting Metals into Usable Form: Cold Working (54 Minutes)

Rolling, stamping, coining, spinning, and other techniques used to form metals at ambient temperatures

DVD 9: Joining (56 Minutes)

Techniques of welding, brazing, and soldering, including descriptions of specific applications of

each process described

DVD 10: Solidification of Metals (55 Minutes)

Introduction to the science of metallurgy, including crystal structure

Concepts of solidification and solid solubility

Basic binary phase diagrams

DVD 11: Heat Treatment of Steel (42 Minutes)

Hardness and hardenability of steel

Specific processes and their applications

Heat treating procedures, equipment, quenchants, and hardness measurements

DVD 12: Strengthening Mechanisms: Nonferrous Metals (40 Minutes)

Techniques used to harden the nonferrous metals, including age hardening, strain hardening and

related metallurgical concepts for aluminum, titanium, copper and other nonferrous metals

DVD 13: Case Hardening of Steel (48 Minutes)

Techniques used to harden the case of a metal, including carburizing, nitriding, carbonitriding

Procedure for measuring case depth

DVD 14: Corrosion and Corrosion Prevention (55 Minutes)

Causes of corrosion and the environmental factors which contribute to it

Types of corrosion are discussed, together with techniques for minimizing it

DVD 15: Quality Control and Failure Analysis (55 Minutes)

Procedures for predicting and/or evaluating the performance of metals in service

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