Introductory :: Specialised :: Technical Specialist
Technical specialist courses
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 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.
- 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.
- Surface treatments.
- 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.
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