FE1023 : Mechanical Testing of Metals

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Mechanical Testing of Metals. It covers the role of mechanical testing in quality control and material certification; the material properties and their significance, mechanical tests classification and stress-strain fundamentals; the specimen preparation for testing, standards and testing protocols and tensile test applications; the tensile test equipment and setup, tensile test data interpretation and compression testing of metals; and the compression test analysis, hardness testing fundamentals and Brinell and Rockwell hardness test. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the Vickers and microhardness testing, impact testing, fracture appearance and ductile-brittle transition; the fatigue testing basics, fatigue test procedures and fatigue crack growth analysis; the creep testing and interpretation, combined fatigue and creep considerations; the fracture toughness testing, non-standard and specialized mechanical tests and data acquisition and analysis; linking test results to root cause analysis and the metallography and fractography correlation and predictive maintenance; the structure of mechanical test reports and interpretation for design and maintenance teams; and archiving test records for traceability.