CPD credits: 3. CPD Ref. no: SAIChE-438. Provider: E4A (SAIChE-SPV-004)
Includes Sub-Courses: New Insights on many materials subjects, E4A’s Master Materials selection with Barriers, Corrosion, 3D Printing, Recycling, Innovative Materials. The Course has many guidelines on choosing materials in all engineering fields and great cost saving designs. The Pre, Mid and Post-Reading Files are packed with useful and unique articles and guidelines on materials.
This extensive Course covers an in-depth review of important materials in engineering design.
Materials are central to virtually every engineering design and most engineering problems. This course is thus of interest to all engineers and covers a wide range of material types and applications in engineering. Every year we update with new trends and improvements with materials.
We cover various high-performance grades of metals, non-metals such as plastics, concrete and glass.
All courses of E4A are directed at practical application of the theories of each of the course main topics and thus the courses are introduced with a series of articles for pre-course reading/study, to provide an overview to the course and to broadly introduce the attendees to the subject matter.
This Course focusses firstly on the fundamentals of materials with important coverage of materials used in engineering design as well as many important material grades, special terminologies and understanding key topics such as extruded versus welded pipe materials. The need to understand the rating of metals and non-metals for pressure and temperature variables is dealt with in detail to ensure a wide understanding of materials.
The Course then addresses design requirements for equipment designs and engineering parts. The course covers selected applications in various processes, important materials properties and key details of manufacturing and assembly that should be carefully considered for successful long-term performance life in service. Much attention is paid to design lifetimes with alternate materials.
E4A also focuses on key approaches to the designs, points of critical importance and prior recorded failures, and thus serves to make attendees aware of the wider but important design considerations. The use of industry standards and ratings of institutes (such as ASME for pipes) - both metal and plastic and the service conditions to which the nominal coding applies - are addressed.
This course is thus to be considered as a broad-based and thorough overview of selection and design of materials for practical and reliable in-plant services.
The third main section of the Course addresses special materials applications including composites (fibre-glass), material combinations such as barriers and structural elements, modifications of polymers including additives, modifications of metals including Duplex SS, sandwiches and foams, and a range of other amazing materials. There is also a short course on solar panel materials and 3D printing of a range of engineering materials.
The final summary of the Course that we present at the end of DAY 2 is prepared as a series of DESIGN STAGES OR STEPS in a master chart with control checklists, and the appropriate design standards and design limitations are discussed and finalized. Interesting and unusual case studies are also presented.
MAIN OBJECTIVES
The main objective is to develop skills of attendees to assess materials design as a total systems approach, and to evaluate a number of economically viable materials for each application considered.
Economic benefits are firstly achieved through the evaluation of different materials and assessing the most suitable and thus effective materials given the critical variables such as pressure, temperature, corrosion, load bearing and other important parameters. Benefits are also achieved through optimisation of the design and a deeper understanding of how design approaches and parameters can be leveraged to savings and profits.
Attendee comments:
“Thank you for presenting an excellent and very relevant Course. I am looking forward to the next one”, Wikus P.;
“The training content was very good for laying the foundations”, Mbombi B.;
“Workshop was very valuable, delivered a lot of new material”, Anusha S.
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