Metallurgy for Non-Metallurgists: Alloy Types, Properties and Applications

Most failures blamed on a material are decisions made earlier: the wrong grade for the service, a heat treatment skipped, a weld that changed the structure nobody checked afterwards. This week gives the engineers who make those decisions enough metallurgy to make them well. It stays practical throughout. Structure, phase and grain are covered because they explain behaviour, not for their own sake, and every property introduced is tied to something a participant has to specify, inspect or explain. By the end somebody should be able to read a material certificate properly, ask a supplier a useful question, and recognise a failure mode from the fracture surface.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Relate structure and processing to the properties a specification asks for.
• Choose between carbon steel, low alloy, stainless and nickel alloys on the service rather than on habit.
• Read a material test certificate, and know what it does not tell you.
• Recognise the common failure modes from the evidence they leave.
• Anticipate what welding will do to a material before it is welded.

Mechanical, maintenance, process and project engineers, inspectors and QA staff, procurement specialists buying materials, and technical managers who sign specifications.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A material selection rationale for one real application, written down.
• A certificate review checklist.
• A failure mode reference tied to the materials on your own plant.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.