Module: Review Heat Treatment Process for Metals

Course details

This module aims to provide participants with basic knowledge on the heat treatment of metals, with special focus on the interdependence between selection of metals, processing routes, and attained properties. A primary objective is to improve the competence and, thereby, the competitiveness of personnel in companies in Singapore, that perform heat treatment in-house as an integrated process in their manufacturing line. It is also relevant for companies specialising in supplying heat treatment as a commercial service. The scope of the programme includes heat treatment of metals (ferrous and non-ferrous) covering different annealing and hardening processes including surface hardening (case hardening, nitriding, induction hardening, aging annealing, etc.). Fundamental theories of relevant physics and chemistry, heat treatment process details, furnaces and other heat treatment equipment, attained properties, quality control, safety, economics, and more will be discussed. There will be actual case stories to help students connect the theoretical knowledge to the heat treatment of real parts and components.

Why This Course

This module will train engineers and other personnel in the industry working with heat treatment in different ways; such as designers specifying required functional properties of components, production planners specifying process schemes, personnel managing or actively operating heat treatment processes, personnel performing laboratory services and R&D activities, materials purchasing engineers, etc.

What You Will Learn

This module is designed to equip participants with knowledge of heat treatment for metals. Using relevant and current case studies, this module covers three main topics:

Introduction and Overview of Heat Treatment: It covers the purpose of heat treatment, theoretical fundamentals, materials testing, steels overview.

Steels and Heat Treatment Processes: It covers ferrous alloys (steels) heat treatment processing for annealing, hardening-quenching-tempering, aging, heat treatment of carbon steels, alloy steels, stainless steels, tool steels.The module also extends to surface hardening and problems associated with heat treated parts.

Non-ferrous Physical Metallurgy and Heat Treatment: it covers the fundamentals of physical metallurgy of non-ferrous metals such as Aluminium, Nickel, Titanium, together with the principles of heat treatment processing of these alloy in aging and annealing.