• Learning the fundamentals of handling failures and the basic steps to analyze a “failure” in a part
• Reviewing the major environments leading to or accelerating failure: wear, corrosion and oxidation
• Having a basic understanding of the characterization tools available and their limitations in determining the cause(s) for a failure
• Exploring case histories of parts that failed especially due to design / processing errors, incorrect materials choices, service and environment
• Discussing specific failures that you have encountered or perhaps are experiencing now and obtain some advice on how to analyze them
• Understanding how failures can originate in manufacturing processes as well as in aggressive environments

• Service personnel
• Technicians
• Designers
• Managers
• Engineers
• Anyone who would like to  deal with the metallurgical failure Analysis

Day 1

• Basic metallurgy
• Metal structure 
• Basic mechanical tests
• Heat treatment 
• Steels' families

Day 2

• Elastic deformation
• Introduction to failure
• Failure mechanisms 
• Types of metal failure
• Foreign object damage (FOD)

Day 3

• Fatigue failures
• Stress corrosion cracking
• Corrosion and corrosion fatigue
• Fretting
• Erosion
• Creep

Day 4

• Failure analysis 
• Cavitation
• Hydrogen embrittlement
• Galling
• The fundamentals of handling failures 
• Examination and reporting procedures

Day 5

• Environmental effects
• Failures in manufacturing processes 
• Incorrect materials choices 
• Case studies of parts that failed especially due to design/processing errors

RECTUS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration