Intermediate programme
Using scanning electron microscopy to answer questions about cement and concrete that other methods cannot.
Electron microscopy resolves questions routine testing can only infer: what a hydration product actually looks like, whether an aggregate reaction has occurred, why a clinker burned badly. This week covers sample preparation, which is where most of the quality of the eventual image is decided, imaging modes and what each shows, microanalysis and its quantification, and interpretation of cement and concrete microstructures. Artefacts are given their own session, because a preparation artefact confidently interpreted is worse than no analysis.
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.
Laboratory managers and microscopists, research and development staff, quality engineers investigating failures, and concrete technologists and forensic investigators.
This is an intermediate level programme. It assumes you are working in or moving into the area it covers, and it is built around your own material rather than a case study. If you are unsure, ask an advisor before registering rather than after.
Ask an advisorShort 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.
Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.
Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.
The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.
Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.
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.
Register on a published date, or tell an advisor what you need and they will come back with something specific rather than a brochure.
Cement Manufacturing
Improving working conditions and workforce competence alongside emission performance, as one programme.
Cement Manufacturing
Refractory selection and failure understood chemically, not just as a materials catalogue.
Cement Manufacturing
Producing blended cements: material selection, grinding strategy and the quality control they demand.
Cement Manufacturing
The kiln as a chemical reactor: controlling the burning zone to make clinker of the quality you intended.
Cement Manufacturing
Maintaining a cement plant for availability, and finding the optimisation that maintenance work makes possible.
Cement Manufacturing
Operating and troubleshooting cement grinding systems, across ball mills, vertical mills and roller presses.
Cement Manufacturing
The technology of cement grinding: equipment design, wear, and the choices that set long term performance.
Cement Manufacturing
A structured grounding in cement production for operators and technicians who run the plant day to day.