Technical specialist courses    

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5 Modules. One day per week.
TS Certificate Metallurgical Laboratory: Physical Metallurgy
A skills developing course. Metallography. Chemical analysis. Hardness testing. Tensile testing. Impact testing. Laboratory administration.

TS Certificate Metallurgical Laboratory: Extractive Metallurgy
A skills developing course, Chemical analysis, Sampling and sample preparation, Data reporting. Laboratory administration.

TS Certificate Foundry Methods.
The foundry properties of: Cast irons, steels, aluminium-based and copper-based alloys. Reaction of molten metal with its environment. Flow of metal. Heat exchange. Design of horizontal and vertical gating systems. Flow simulations. Solidification. Shrinkage and risers. Geometrical dimensioning of risers. Feeding distance. Feeding aids. Fettling.

TS Certificate Heat Treatment.
Basic physical metallurgy. The iron carbon system. Carbon steels. Low alloy steels. Alloying elements. Tool steels. Stainless steels. Basic heat treatment. Hardening of low alloy steels. TTT diagrams. Tempering. Austempering. Problems. Surface treatments. Tool steels. Mechanical metallurgy. Quality control.

TS Certificate Foundry Sand.
Green sand and its control. Chemical bonded sand. Core sand. 

TS Certificate Grey and SG Iron Practice.
TS Certificate Physical Processing ? Agglomeration
Briquetting, Pelletizing, Preparation of Feed, Rolling of Material, Hardening of Pellets

TS Certificate Sampling.
Sampling techniques, Sample preparation, Test procedures, Data reporting.

Certificate Management
Certificate Cast Iron Melting
Grey iron. SG Iron. Charge make-up control. Melting control. Nucleation. Influence of impurities. Inoculation and ladle treatments. Tapping and pouring. Furnaces and refractories.

Certificate Steel Melting
Raw materials. The metal charge. Oxidation of the bath. Slag. Interaction with atmospheres. Impurity control. Chemistry control. Tapping. Deoxidation. Ladle treatments. Casting. Furnaces and refractories.

Certificate Aluminium Melting