Secat’s Certificate in Aluminum Metallurgy course 2: Deformation Processing. This course will cover wrought processing of aluminum alloys with emphasis on rolling, forging, and extruding. In addition to instruction from Secat’s experienced staff, two experts will provide additional instruction related to their specific fields. Dr. Scott Goodrich of Constellium (Retired) will teach the rolling sections and Dr. Wojtek Misiolek of Lehigh University will present on extruding of aluminum.
This course is applicable for process engineers, process technicians, supervisors, quality technicians, quality managers, metallurgists, and lab managers. The lessons will be delivered first in lecture format and then with hands-on demonstrations using laboratory scale equipment. The course will be held at Secat’s Lexington, KY and Nicholasville, KY facilities (30 minutes apart).
Course Objectives:
· Learn about hot and cold rolling and how the microstructure evolves throughout processing.
· Understand forging processes and equipment
· Review the extrusion process and discuss metallurgical features that are unique to extruding
· Demonstrate the concept of flow stress and how if effects workloads on presses
· Experimentally show the evolution of microstructure during forging
· Show typical defects that are common for each wrought processing method and discuss their origins
· Brief discussion on stamping, drawing, joining and fabrication
Registration fee includes course materials and lunch each day
