Course Description: Due to increasing demands imposed on high-performance metals and the disastrous and costly results of component failures, the need for designers and engineers to gain an understanding of the fundamental principles of failure investigation and analysis is essential. This course will enable delegates to determine how and why a metal component has failed or fractured during service and identify means of detecting and preventing such failures in the future.

Course aims: The course aims to provide professionals with an introduction into why materials fail. Including failure investigation and prevention, as well as the mechanisms of fracture and corrosion related failures

Learning Outcomes:
  • Understanding how components fail, why they fail in a given mode, and how to prevent failures
  • Identify the various factors that need to be considered in material selection, design and the service environment
  • Recognise the basic features and characteristics of different failure mechanisms
  • Recommend testing or analysis that can help determine the cause of the failures
  • Gain experience in metallurgical failure analysis in different scenarios
  • Specify appropriate detection methods to prevent component failure
Who Should Attend? Typical attendees of the course include designers and engineers from the metals, manufacturing and related industries.

Course Duration: 1 day

Course content
  • Introduction to Failure
  • Basic Metallurgy
  • Metal Properties & failure
  • Failure mechanisms
  • Failure Analysis techniques
  • Case Studies