Skip Navigation LinksHome   Site Map   Course Catalog   Course Details Friday, Jan 27 2012  - Time values are displayed in Central Standard Time

Course Details: IM-02 Introduction to Steel Heat Treating
Shopping CartShopping Cart

Add Course to Shopping CartAdd Course to Shopping Cart

General Course Information
Course: IM-02 Introduction to Steel Heat Treating
Course Number: IM-02
Version: 1
Price: $240.00
Provider: Industrial Metallurgists, LLC.


Course Overview

The course fee is $240.  Click on the name of the course above to purchase the course.

Introduction to Steel Heat Treating is a 0.5 CEU course that teaches about common heat treating processes and how they are used to manipulate the microstructure of steels to obtain specific mechanical properties.  Students will learn about the metallurgy of steel, the effects of heat treating temperature and cooling rate on microstructure and properties, and the effects of the interaction between heat treating process parameters and steel composition on steel microstructure and strength.  The knowledge gained will help students address metallurgy decisions and problems related to steel alloy selection, process development, and supplier selection.

The course is divided into eight modules.  There is a quiz after each module.  The modules are: 

  1. Introduction
  2. Metallurgy of Steel
  3. Steel Phase Diagram
  4. Phase Transformations in Steel
  5. Annealing and Normalizing
  6. Through Hardening
  7. Case Hardening
  8. Surface Hardening


Course Length
The course is 0.5 CEUs and takes about 5 hours to complete.  Modules are 15 to 40 minutes long.  Learners will have 3 months to complete the course.  The course will not be accessible to a learner after 3 months.

Target Audience
Design engineers, manufacturing engineers, quality engineers, sourcing specialists

Prerequisites
Learners should either take our Introduction to Metallurgy course or have basic knowledge of the following topics: solid solution, substitution, interstitial, diffusion, effects of process temperature and time on diffusion and metallurgical changes, metallurgical phase, grain, grain boundary, precipitates and precipitation, tensile testing, and hardness testing.

Course Pass Requirements (all requirements must be satisfied to receive a certificate)

  1. Complete the course within three (3) months of the registration date.
  2. Complete all the course quizzes.
  3. Achieve a score of at least 70% for each quiz within the course.
  4. Complete an end-of-course survey.

Printing a course certificate
A course certificate can be printed by doing the following:  select "My Learning Path", select "My Transcript", select "View Complete Details", and select "To get your certificate click this link."


Notes
-The course fee is per person.
-Technical support contact information: support@imetllc.com
-A downloadable pdf of the course slides is attached to the course.



Course Objective
At the end of this course learners will be able to do the following:
  1. Describe the common metallurgical phases and microstructures found in steels.
  2. Explain how the iron-carbon phase diagram and time-temperature-transformation diagrams are used to predict the phases present in a steel based on a heat treating thermal cycle.
  3. Describe the thermal cycles and significant process variables for annealing, normalizing, through hardening, tempering, case hardening, and surface hardening processes.
  4. Relate the interactions between heat treating temperature, heat treating time, cooling rate, and composition on a steel’s microstructure and properties.
  5. Explain the effects of heating temperature and time steel microstructure and properties.
  6. Explain the effects of cooling rate on steel microstructure and properties.
  7. Explain the difference between maximum hardness and hardenability.
  8. Describe two factors that influence steel hardenability.
  9. Explain common problems encountered with through hardening, case hardening, and surface hardening processes and how to prevent these problems.
  10. Describe the effects of case hardening process parameters on case depth, microstructure, and hardness of case hardened steel
  11. Describe the effects of the process parameters on the hardened layer thickness and microstructure for flame hardening and induction hardening.
  12. Explain two ways to measure case depth


 System Requirements
  • 1024x768 and larger monitor
  • Best viewed at 56k and above
  • IE 6.0 sp1 or above (JavaScript enabled)
  • Adobe Flash Plug-in (optional)
  • Cookies Enabled